Ment to be taking the kids blackberry picking and to be honest, can't really face a 1hr trudge over ploughed fields, across the stream and through the woods if there isnt anything vaguely edible at the end of it!
2006-08-27 00:42:58 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
I would give it another week or so. Even if the blackberries aren't ready take a picnic and enjoy the ploughed fields, the stream, the woods and the wildlife and the trek home. The mushrooms are ready for picking I saw plenty yesterday..not the magic variety.
Why not get in your car and go and find hedgerows this should give you an indication as to whether the blackberries are yet ripe ready or not.
When the blackberries are ready be sure to pick enough so you can make me a blackberry and apple pie or blackberry wine please. I'm very partial to blackberries but the cultivated ones do not have the same flavour
EDIT Sounds as not many of you have a sense of adventure, what's more fulfilling than falling in beds of stinging nettles and arms getting torn to shred with thorns and the kids screaming 'I need the loo Mum'. No you go for it.
Seriously it makes the children realise that not everything is made by the three big Giants;Tescos, Asda and Sainsburys. They will have something different to talk about istead of computer games and Bazooker!
2006-08-27 00:54:23 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes. The walk will do you good! Remember that it's the journey, not what you find at the end that's important!
I have already found some very good ones a week or so back. I'm not saying where they are, though. It's a little too early for sloes, yet. Must remember to stock up on the gin. Elderberries are good this year as well. Don't forget to look for crab apples - they make a good jelly on their own and are excellent in blackberry jelly because they have the pectin to make it set.
2006-08-27 07:47:33 · answer #2 · answered by pica_septima 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I got brambles in my garden, and the berries aren't ready yet. Should be soon, but nothing to get over-excited about at the moment. It's gonna be September before mine are ready for anything.
2006-08-27 09:16:54 · answer #3 · answered by Phish 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It amazes me what lengths people will go to, just to save a couple of quid at Sainsbury's. As for dragging the poor kids with you, we've had laws against that sort of thing since the nineteenth century.
2006-08-27 12:15:38 · answer #4 · answered by Trust Me 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yeah blackberrys are out now, in fact they have been out for a while now, but still loads of good pickins! lol=]
2006-08-27 07:49:50 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Whats that saying about the journey being half the trip,
You'd probably be happier just buying them in town if that's your attitude (:
2006-08-27 12:20:44 · answer #6 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
south east
2006-08-27 08:04:03 · answer #7 · answered by akthar a 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
In my mum's garden near slough they are HUGE!
2006-08-27 14:28:47 · answer #8 · answered by emily_jane2379 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes
2006-08-27 07:55:05 · answer #9 · answered by Jane S 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
all the ones i have seen are gone , i mean all the bushes here are empty.
2006-08-27 07:51:39 · answer #10 · answered by Andrea S 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋