A berry good year despite the lack of water.

We have done really well considering how little water we have. We are now surviving on seven rungs of the big tank and less that a quarter of the small one. But despite this we have had reasonable crops of berries and currants.
There is still some rodent getting into our strawberries, but I think it is just one mouse for now, as we have had some fruit.
The raspberries have had hardly any water at all but we got some and they were very good.
The redcurrants have gone absolutely nuts and I have gotten to freeze some this year. Not bad for a two year old bush.

The boysenberries and loganberries haven't done too badly either. We just ate the last of the boysenberry crop the other day.

We have had our first blackcurrants too and even though there are not many they are very tasty and a flavour I remember and love.

The blackberries are just holding in there. I transplanted two and they have no fruit. The other two established bushes are coping but the fruit will be pretty small and dry.

With some good autumn rain we may get some more raspberries and hopefully next year things will be even better.