blackberries
Do you remember the past spring when I was bragging about how many blackberries we were going to have? Well it seems to have worked out exactly as I planned! Muhahahahaha!!!!
Ahem, See?
Yep. I've been picking blackberries on and off for two weeks now. A pint here, a pint there. I can pick a pint of blackberries (while eating giant fist-fulls of them) in about 15 minutes. I picked a half pail of them last week and have been tossing them randomly on/in everything that I thought needed some fruit (blackberries in iced tea = VERY good)
Last weekend Neil and I put in a concerted effort:
And in a little more than an hour we had 5.5 POUNDS of blackberries!
And the crazy part is we only picked a third of the plants before giving up (it was hot out there) There are more berries than us PLUS the wildlife can eat. I know this because we have a crazy mixed flock of wild birds in the yard constantly. And there was a lot of deer poop out there as well. And yet, there are over-ripe berries falling off the plants because we're not eating them fast enough.
Neil going to make a blackberry hefeweizen. I'm going to make seedless blackberry jam (because how often do I have enough berries for THAT?!) And probably more blackberry wine.
This post is originally from BeckyinVT. Feel free to comment and follow here or there.
Ahem, See?
Yep. I've been picking blackberries on and off for two weeks now. A pint here, a pint there. I can pick a pint of blackberries (while eating giant fist-fulls of them) in about 15 minutes. I picked a half pail of them last week and have been tossing them randomly on/in everything that I thought needed some fruit (blackberries in iced tea = VERY good)
Last weekend Neil and I put in a concerted effort:
And in a little more than an hour we had 5.5 POUNDS of blackberries!
And the crazy part is we only picked a third of the plants before giving up (it was hot out there) There are more berries than us PLUS the wildlife can eat. I know this because we have a crazy mixed flock of wild birds in the yard constantly. And there was a lot of deer poop out there as well. And yet, there are over-ripe berries falling off the plants because we're not eating them fast enough.
Neil going to make a blackberry hefeweizen. I'm going to make seedless blackberry jam (because how often do I have enough berries for THAT?!) And probably more blackberry wine.
This post is originally from BeckyinVT. Feel free to comment and follow here or there.