More foraging
Hops drying:
Today, we had another try at the Minnis, and were more successful: a quarter kilo of blackberries (Mike is crap at blackberrying. He gets bored too quickly), half a kilo of elderberries (gone in the freezer, to make another batch of the cordial when it's cold enough to want a nice hot spiced drink after walking the dog), and apples:
There are not nearly so many apples this year as last, but we got two big bags. The tiny ones will go for juice, the pink ones will probably be preped for crumble and frozen. The big green ones are pretty much the entirety of the remaining crop from our two, elderly trees (less a few damaged ones that have gone to the horses). I got about half that amount a week or so ago, and now there are just a few manky ones that I'll leave for the birds and insects.
We're certainly not going to be able to do what we did last year when we went to the Minnis and filled three or four bags-for-life in fifteen minutes.
(I am currently basically obsessed with my birthday present, Ni No Kuni, hence haven't been about much. Nearly at the final boss, though, so normal service soon.)
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Today, we had another try at the Minnis, and were more successful: a quarter kilo of blackberries (Mike is crap at blackberrying. He gets bored too quickly), half a kilo of elderberries (gone in the freezer, to make another batch of the cordial when it's cold enough to want a nice hot spiced drink after walking the dog), and apples:
There are not nearly so many apples this year as last, but we got two big bags. The tiny ones will go for juice, the pink ones will probably be preped for crumble and frozen. The big green ones are pretty much the entirety of the remaining crop from our two, elderly trees (less a few damaged ones that have gone to the horses). I got about half that amount a week or so ago, and now there are just a few manky ones that I'll leave for the birds and insects.
We're certainly not going to be able to do what we did last year when we went to the Minnis and filled three or four bags-for-life in fifteen minutes.
(I am currently basically obsessed with my birthday present, Ni No Kuni, hence haven't been about much. Nearly at the final boss, though, so normal service soon.)
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