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I am still waiting on any tomatoes to ripen. I keep seeing other people posting about the tomatoes they are picking, but I think I'm still weeks off any ripe ones here. There are a lot of flowers, as well as fruit starting to develop, so when it does get there I think I might be a bit overrun! It will be nice if I am, I can donate excess to a local food cupboard so it won't go to waste. I've also planted a row of mixed cherry tomatoes along the front fence to allow people to pick there own on the way past.
My raspberries have mostly finished round 1, but I keep finding occassional stray berries still. I need to make more bags to protect the fruit before round 2.
What are you protecting your raspberries from? And how? My main pest is spiders who like to make a nest in the new leaves.
Birds primarily. I have netting drawstring bags that I put over each bunch of raspberries once they start to get a bit pink. It's a bit of pain to constantly put the bags on and off, but without them I wouldn't get any raspberries at all.