Blackberries are quite late in ripening this year.
But with a little effort, you can still pick an ice-cream container full in half an hour.
And they still taste yummy in blackberry and apple pie.
What’s all the fuss about?
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They do make them like they used to! A good laugh when all about seems doom and gloom. Could do with the same in parliament.
Brilliant video!!
Yes a great year for most fruits think I have picked about 12lb in last week but yours are obviously better than ours as I seem to take about a hour to fill ice cream container.
Brambles!
Get out and get yourself some fungi…..great year.
Graeme
Unrelated to this post but please see the article ‘Corporate Vandalism’ on the website of the excellent Gordon Yates. Surely something must be done here.
I remember visits to Holme Bird Observatory back in the early 1970s when the warden, Peter Clarke, had notices around the place warning that “The blackberries are for the birds”. In other words, pick them at your peril!
Funny: We’ve got the same signs at Summer Leys “The berries support the wildlife on the reserve, please do not pick” bit odd because on my berry bush the birds ignore it until they’ve started rotting as for fungi forraging I saw some youth’s on the park picking mushrooms which I thought odd until I heard one proclaim “honest you dry them out and you get the best buzz”, I had to chuckle….
Think in this instance there is more than enough for the birds as most are drying and so no good to the birds anyway.In fact picking some could well be to wildlife’s advantage as when picking lots get knocked and fall on ground for some small animals plus some get dropped.Unfortunately some conservationists wear bad spectacles and see everything as bad.
They need to realise that you only get lots of Blackberries for birds etc if the hedges are not regularly trimmed therefore it means farmers are being conservation friendly.
Meaning a big plus for farmers blackberry pickers and birds and wildlife.
Why cannot these people be positive,here is proof farmers doing the right thing and they moan enough about them not embracing wildlife friendly measures and still they think up negative things.
Believe me if there was no glut of blackberries the pickers would definitely not bother.
Mrs C returns daily from Crendle Bottom with pockets laden with cobnuts. Apparently it is a very good year for them. Or a bad one for squirrels …