Berries

[NickW]

Yes, definitely a bumper crop of deer flies here. I can easily kill a couple dozen on the 1/4 mile trail down to the water and then again on the way back up.

 

[bigealta]

The birds and squirrels take almost all the blueberries blackberries and apples here in my yard. Same thing every year.

 

[djlew]

I haven't gotten much, but at least for my raspberries I need to stay on top of picking (and more effectively netting) if I want to get anything. As far as blueberries, I decided I am going to just grow in containers to control the soil as best I can. My patriot and pink lemonade are not pleased currently, lol.

 

[stoveliker]

Blueberries here are indeed very good this year.
Raspberries have suffered some from the drought, I think, as their crop was poor so far.

 

[kborndale]

Blueberries here are indeed very good this year.
Raspberries have suffered some from the drought, I think, as their crop was poor so far.

I've been just the opposite, I've had a great raspberry crop this year while my blueberries have not been so good. The raspberries are in a better location than the blueberries though.

 

[stoveliker]

Interesting.
Our raspberries last year were producing almost more than we could eat.
Now we have had about two bowls and it stopped. Some new growth with better looking leaves is there though and I see flowers, so maybe we'll catch up.

Our blueberries are about 10 times what we had last year.

Apples are doing great too. Kousa berries too. Pears not. But each of those is only one tree, so variability year over year is to be expected