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About Us
Products
Potatoes
Soft Fruit
Pick Your Own
Asparagus
Meat & Fish
Frozen Food
Christmas
Hampers
Fishing
Location
Fancy something new? Try before you buy at one of our regular
tastings. Phone for details.
Carpenters Farm Shop
St. Mary's Road
Great
Bentley
Colchester
Essex
CO7 8NJ
Tel: 01206 250221 or 01206 251741
Fax: 01206 251741 (shop hours only)
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Soft Fruit
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Strawberries & Soft Fruit
- Extended season: May - September
- Pick Your Own
- Ready Picked available
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Home Grown
In polly tunnels on raised tables under
continuous irrigation and of course the traditional field grown. The soft fruit products at Carpenters Farm involves
the growing of Strawberries and raspberries for retail,
wholesale and PYO purposes. |
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Strawberries
The season has been extended dramatically in recent
years. In 1988 the season lasted about five weeks, it
now stretches from he middle of May to September. This
extra 10 weeks has been achieved by growing eight
different varieties, traditional growing methods as well
as plants, in growbags, grown in polly tunnels.
This method give fruit of far higher quality, appearance
and taste and with the use of biological control ( the
use of good bugs to eat bad ones) enables us to keep the
use of pesticides to a minimum.
In Season: Ready picked Strawberries always
available to buy in the shop in 225g, 400g, and 800g punnets.
Orders welcome for larger quantities (subject to
availability). Frozen strawberries are also for sale in
the shop especially over winter. Ideal for mousses and
trifles.
Fresh cream, sugar and ice cream also available for
sale. Although we think our strawberries are so good
they're best eaten naked - so to speak!.
PYO: Early June to late July on strawed field
beds. Containers: on sale or bring your own. Lets hope
for warm weather to pick in. |
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Raspberries
The season for raspberries runs from the middle of
June to September. We grow two varieties and fruit
quality has been dramatically improved by the
installation of an automatic trickle irrigation system.
In Season: Ready picked raspberries available to buy
from the shop in attractive lidded punnets, 115g or 225g
in weight. Larger amounts can be picked to order
(subject to availability).
PYO: Mid June to mid September. Long rows of
well established heavy cropping raspberry canes. Look
hard as the best fruit can be hidden and wander further
along as most people pick from the nearest canes.
FREEZER TIP: Raspberries freeze fantastically. For
best results place individually spaced on trays
initially, then once frozen bag or box up. We welcome
orders to pick for freezing. Frozen home grown
raspberries for sale in the shop. |
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Gooseberries
Wow! This year sees an abundant mass of berries, so
weighty they are near to snapping the branches.
Available from June 14th - come soon and enjoy a
goossegog feats
Red Gooseberries
These young bushes will crop lightly this year from
approximately June 20th.
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Tayberries
Looking Fantastic. This cross between a blackberry and a
raspberry was first bred in Scotland in 1962. The fruit
is sweeter, much larger and more aromatic then the
loganberry. Cropping is early July to mid August
Plums & Greengages
Planted in 2006, these young trees are delighting our
feathered friends. Lets hope that when we crop then for
the first time in 2011 our fruit will delight yoou too! |
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Jam
Strawberries and raspberries make great jam. You
don't have to buy premium fruit, many people buy
2nds on sale in the shop or pick when the
fruit crop is at its peak for speed. We sell a great
range of ready made preserves
in our shop for the non jam makers among us! |
David Morton with our fantastic crop
of Strawberries.
 Our
2010 Crop
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