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Given the writer lives in Britain she would do well to forget about farmed berries and forage for wild blackberries instead. Urban, suburban, rural, they're eve
by walthamstow 2y ago
Given the writer lives in Britain she would do well to forget about farmed berries and forage for wild blackberries instead. Urban, suburban, rural, they're everywhere.
They're bang in season at the moment and my wife and I are getting half a kilo (a pound) in about 40 mins of lazy picking in the mornings before work. They are absolutely delicious and freeze well for cakes, crumbles and such in the winter.
- HeyLaughingBoy 2y agoWe have wild black raspberries all over. Enough that I was just wondering a few hours ago if it would be less effort to spray some with herbicide than take them out with the brushcutter. Anyway, they are delicious, but we've had ridiculous amounts of rain this summer. All the rain seems to have made them flower and grow earlier than usual and die off much faster. Normally there's fruit for about a solid month. I think we barely got a week this hear :-( Come to think of it, the wild plums are usually ripe at the end of August. I should go check that they aren't also ripening early, because they don't last long.
- jeffrallen 2y ago> spray some with herbicide than take them out with the brushcutter Brings back a funny memory. First day of school in Oregon, teacher asks a bunch of kids what they did for vacation. One boy says his dad paid him to take out blackberries. A new girl, from Texas, spoke up: "Why on earth would you kill a berry bush?" A real, "you're not from around here are ya?" moment. In western Oregon, blackberries are so pervasive and grow so fast, you have to fight then off to save your property!
- HeyLaughingBoy 2y agoYeah. That's pretty much where I am at this point.