Over the past month I have binned so much fresh fruit its actually obscene. Grapes that looked so nice, inedible because the skins are like thick leather, oranges and satsumas that are dried out inside, plums either gone to mush or skins leathery (had to bin a kilo of Reine Claude at the weekend, they were tasteless and dry). Same with some of the pigeon-egg tomatoes, skins so tough I dare not let the little ones have them for fearing of choking. I think this is the worst I have ever had and its not just one or two shops but several outlets. Even some turkish figs I bought had to be binned as they were dried out inside yet not soft. Lovely looking red apples have no flavour and might just as well go in the bin too! Anyone else found the same this year?
I think the weather hasn’t helped. Also, retailers these days try to prolong shelf life with seasonal fruit by chill storing them. Unfortunately that can mean the fruit never ripens properly and just goes from hard to dry and tasteless or mushy.
Best thing is to buy direct from local producers because they will be selling what has just been picked, otherwise they won’t have it. 
there are several different-type fig trees in our village… all ripen at different times and have very different fruits…
this year, the crop is zero on some, light on others and prolific but mostly horrible on the others… very, very strange times…
I’m just glad to find enough to pass around… then zilch for a while… and even the insects seem to have given up on 'em
Around here figs have been generally disappointing low crop, ripening late, watery inside. However I know a couple of trees alongside local footpaths that could have some decent ones if we get another week or so of sun.
And as an extra note, everything apart from the figs and citrus fruits came from France. Back in the summer I stopped buying peaches and nectarines and those pêche plât - all we absolutely revolting with no juice to speak of and went off very quickly if left out or went leathery in the fridge.
Around Cussy we heard that many fruit trees were drowning in waterlogged soil, and that caused the trees in our orchard to be sickly and unfruitful. That shouldn’t affect fruit in other countries though.
Our fruit trees have been disappointing. Only the plum has fruited successfully. The apple and nectarine have been a complete wipeout. Far too much rain early on I think did for them.
Funny harvest this year my little peche de vigne and a quince tree (both planted 2 years ago) produced amazing fruit. Pear (about 15years old) had some fruit hard as a rock…
Apple 60+ years had plenty of fruit that went mouldy on the tree.
Still waiting on the purple figs… first lot got frosted, second fruit is green and will not ripen this year. Last year I harvested a kilo of figs every day.
Very frustrating - hoping for a better 2025
Up here in waterlogged Normandie, we personally have had a great year for our apples - lovely-tasting juicy ones in 4 varieties. Nothing else of note though, but then plums and reine claudes rarely come to anything in our garden and the soft fruit wasn’t great either. Raspberries weren’t too bad though.