The red currant bush is planted more than 10 years ago but the bluberry and the raspberry bush were planted 2 years ago. The first year you know not to expect much berries. But the second year there were high expectations ... which unfortunately did not work out. The rasberrie bush did better than expected but the blueberry gave exactly 3 berries, a bit disappointing. It look likes this year our expectations will come true, but we must not get our hopes up too early...
On April 7 the berry bushes looked like this
Blueberry (Yellow bush)
Raspberries
Red currant
on April 24 ....
There appear little flowers in the blue berry bush, those will be berries.
The raspberry bush grows by the day, it fans out pretty now.
The green currants are found by the birds, we need to put a net on.
and on May 3 ...
The little flowers make way for blue hulls, berries will be the next fase.
The first minuscule 3D raspberries are shaping, they grow fast!
The currants are getting big but colouring fully red takes a little longer.
Last year we had 2 blueberries on the bush to be exact, a bit disappointing. The red currants were snatched by birds before dawn, so there was not much left for us to pick. Only the raspberry gave berries in abundance until the very end of the fall. They tasted superb fresh from the bush, sweet and unsprayed.
We have our hopes up for this year, we can see already there will be a good amount of berries to pick. Just have to be quick enough to beat the birds to it ;)