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My cherry tomatoes have started ripening. Picking 1-3 a day which is lovely. There's lots of tomatoes on both my plants, I hope I don't end up with an influx of ripe ones all at once! The blueberries are finishing up, but the strawberries are in fine form. The raspberries have finished round one but round two will be happening soon. Still waiting on the boxes to start my vegie garden, have to put my plan on paper.
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.