Carpenters Farm Shop - Well worth a visit.  It’s a matter of taste !            

 

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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)

 
 

Soft Fruit

Pick Your Own Strawberries or Soft Fruit


Strawberries & Soft Fruit

- Extended season: May - September
- Pick Your Own
- Ready Picked available


  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.
   
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.
   

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.

   

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.
 

   

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!

   

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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