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Photo Article from the Welsh Hovel: Fruit harvesting & cooking with Joshua

Tom Winnifrith
Monday 23 June 2025
The Mrs. and Jaya spent the weekend partying in Nottingham leaving my son and heir, Joshua, and I free to catch up on watching Downton Abbey repeats and to continue the fruit harvesting here at the Welsh Hovel. What you see below are:

Blackcurrants of which we have a glut in the basket, dessert gooseberries on the plate and bowls of strawberries and raspberries ( red and golden). All bar most of the blackcurrants have now been turned into either a summer pudding which now sits in the fridge awaiting the return of the Mrs. and Jaya or a litre of summer pudding flavoured ice cream.

Tonight the blackcurrants will be turned into another litre of ice cream and into several pots of jam to accompany the rhubarb and ginger jam I made last week, three pots of which are on the table behind the raspberries. We crack on. 

Next up will be turning last year’s damsons into jam and making the first batch of lavender cordial and lavender ice cream for ShareStock. Out in the gardens the next batch of radishes are ready for harvesting while the marrows, squashes, tomatoes, shallots, sweetcorn, beetroot and chillies power on. The broad beans are, I’m, afraid less of a success and if we get one meal out of them I will be delighted.

The apple, plum, peach, dogs arse, damson and pear trees all look set for a good year and this year’s cherries are almost ripe and should make at6 least one pie, if not two. All bar the damsons were planted by me and are now productive. The old apple trees by the river which we inherited look set for a bumper year. Apple juice all round for the autumn. I remember drinking it heated and with spices in America years ago, I must seek out that recipe.

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Tom Winnifrith is the editor of TomWinnifrith.com. When he is not harvesting olives in Greece, he is (planning to) raise goats in Wales.
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