What Was The Woodland Trust Suggesting??

[Klenchblaize]

No shortage for me!

Picture snapped this morning (15/09/16).

K

 

[Big G]

Get a crumble rubbed up... delicious

 

[John Fenna]

Lots of them around here - but watery and not much flavour... those that have not gone moldy on the plant!

 

[GGTBod]

Up here this year they are really really tart, me and the little one were out the other week on our bikes and ate a gut full each, those that weren't tart were super sweet. It's great taking kids foraging as you get to relive the magic of finding wild food through their experience

 

[Klenchblaize]

I'm convinced the WT were simply desperate to use the strapline "Crumbles In Crises" and align this with the Bake Off/Mary Berry.

K

 

[Leshy]

No shortage here either, and I found mine unusually sweet, compared to previous years.
Still loads left and more on the way...
Some gone off mouldy , so I threw them in the other side of the garden so hopefully next year I'll have 2 lots...


Raspberries still not out yet though...

 

[dewi]

We've got them growing in the garden... no idea where they came from, but they're there.

 

[Leshy]

We've got them growing in the garden... no idea where they came from, but they're there.

Birdpoo?


😀

 

[GGTBod]

Raspberries have been and gone already up here, very short and sweet, pun apology

 

[Bishop]

Julie's been prodding me to go out and get some more after discovering the joys of Blackberry syrup on pancakes, ice cream and the industrial strength sponge cake from mother. Pickings have been lean along roadside and cycle paths aroundhere but still plenty of untouched hedgerows. Just got to get out there and get over the fence

 

[Tengu]

Theres loads around, -Ive never seen a bad berry year yet, -other fruit can have good and bad years, but blackberries are indestructable

 

[bigbear]

Crisis ? Do what John ? Bumper year here in Bradford !

 

[Bishop]

Blood Sweat & Brambles


So worth it or at least it will be when I finish pulling the thorns out of my arm!

 

[GGTBod]

I dunno you'd think that was blood on your hands instead of berry juice

 

[Robson Valley]

When the opportunity presents, harvest as much as you can.
In the months to come, it just seems easier to attend to preserves and the like
when the quantitiy isn't quite so precious.
"Oh, I have only 200ml. I can't mess this up."
Me: "Oh. I have 12kg in the freezer. What shall I make?"
Then when the day comes that I have only 200ml, I have some established ideas.