We tried our first bottle of 2015 elderflower fizz yesterday in the lovely sunshine and it's glorious. The same can't quite be said of the blackberries this year methinks. I went out blackberrying yesterday and was very disappointed, either bushes with no blackberries or very small ones. Now I may either be too late to the table and they've been picked or the wet August has played its part. I eventually did find a swathe of bushes which reaped a tub full and they are currently dripping through a jelly bag with some apples to make blackberry and apple jelly. I'll go out again later in the week and fingers crossed the sun we've been promised will have ripened some more and we can have a blackberry crumble.
We've had quite a good year in the garden, considering we do the minimum to care for it, having busy jobs and family life. At the moment we have sweet peas, chard, kale, beans and beetroot so no complaints and we have tomatoes on the way as well as celeriac. And all to be washed down with the sparkle of elderflower.