Wild Blackberry picking ...

The allotment site is surrounded by them.
We are doing our best but cant seem to kill them off.

 

I used to go blackberry picking as a kid but don't seem to anymore at the other half doesn't like them and read somewhere that cultivated ones are much better and less pippy.

I would like to pick them again but don't want to use them in apple and blackberry crumbles like my mum does. What does everyone else put them in?

 

I make jelly from them, no pips in that.

 

Ooh go on then Loli! I haven't been in years to go picking but I'd probably head for the abandoned railways tracks near Spring Bank/Calvert Road.

 

Just a lovely hot bramble pie with icecream and cream

 

Oh alright then.......back of Anlaby House/Lowfield Rd was always good ...not looked there yet this year...and Weedly Springs (just beyond Raywell)....It nice there for all the Frosts ,especially Bella....but don't tell anybody

 

Thanks Loli, we we're down at Weedley Springs the other day and forgot to have a look. Love that place, except you can't walk through the train tunnels anymore.

 

Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire are well on their way to having a bumper crop and sweet with it this year. Just been round with the dog and she has taken a liken to them also.

 

They've suddenly exploded into ripeness around here, becoming much juicier and I'm getting much better juice extraction both in quantity and concentration (the earlier ones must have been rather sub-standard).

P.S. Unfortunately, Dog, who loved to snack on all sorts of low level fruits (& nuts) and would even get down into ditches to snaffle up loads of fallen cherry (Mirabelle) plums died earlier this year (only 2 weeks after catching and eating her last rabbit) which has left an enormous hole in our enjoyment of our foraging activities.

 

It's like everything ....was getting worried no Bees now there's loads,no Butterflys,the garden is full,Sloes were looking thin on the ground but coming on now ,Brambles,sad looking things yet in a week looking real good,Rowan berries and Haws the same

@Scrungee ..real sorry about Dog

 

sorry to hear about your Dog passing away on you @Scrungee

 

Was out foraging today and for anyone who is in the neighbourhood the pickings are good in NW Norfolk at the mo with another flush or two to come I should think a bit later on. Got quite a haul so will get to freezing them later as have no time for jam making as shortly off on hols. Usually pick blackberries each year and think these are the tastiest I can remember for some time.

GG

 

i haven't picked blackberries since i was a little girl...not really sure where to look for them now

 

Out at 06.30 this morning and picked a dozen punnets from our community allotment garden for the Fruit/Veg Bag scheme we run - naturally had a few for myself too!

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I could eat wild blackberries until they came out of my ears, however I really want to do more with them. Itd be great if someone with their own recipes could star a thread in the recipe section, nothing beats using wild fruits, my gran used her own homegrown fruit for jams which I would by the spoonful