Blackberries finally!

[fish]

I was starting to think there wasnt going to be a harvest round here,theres still sod all in the way of sloes!but this week ive manages over 20lb of them,heres todays pickings from a little over an hour on the lanes round here:

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m92/fishfish_01/Bushcraft/DSC03229.jpg

so how have you guys been faring in your areas?

thanks for looking.

[paulthefish2009]

Well done Fish,can't find one round my way,loads of hawthorn and blackberries though. Paul

[Bernie]

The great thing about canoes is that you can harvest the crop that the ramblers can't reach. :)

Sorry about the awful photo - my camera broke so this was taken with my phone. Had I spent more time I could've had buckets full of the things. (From the Exeter canal if you're interested.)

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-rBn6bd5QHl0/UFYmVJ-xP0I/AAAAAAAAHEg/5iHtPsOxOyM/s851/2012+-+9

[fish]

great idea! never thought of it,your right though the best ones are allways out of reach!

[Howling Dingo]

Cool..!

[JonnyP]

Brambles are funny old plants. All through the winter, spring n summer its a pain in the arse plant, ever creeping where you don't want it and trying to trip you up or entangle you in its grip.
Then come autumn is suddenly our best friend.

Not a great year for them down here, but not a bad one either.. I have spotted some good sloes about, but we had to cut down our best blackthorn :0(

[fish]

hope you kept some of the wood!

[JonnyP]

hope you kept some of the wood!

All went in the firewood pile..
http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s188/jonpickett/009-6.jpg

[AL...]

Damn thats some pile :D

Cheers
AL

[JonnyP]

Damn thats some pile :D

Cheers
AL

Thats only half of it Al.. I do a lot of sawing n splitting.

[AL...]

Thats gonna keep you guys fine and cozy over the winter bud :)

Cheers
AL

[jus_young]

I was working down at the preppers place today and I thought of you Jonny ;)

I remembered the pile of would you had from my last visit but even you would be impressed by the wood stack that this guy has. Saw my first blackberries down at his place too, seems to be bugger all here at the moment. Even lost all my apples this year as the wind took some and the jackdaws had the others.

[TreeCamper]

A bimble along the Cornish Coastpath today. I went out looking for field mushrooms but came back with Blackberries.


http://youtu.be/hukYiFdrW0c

[paulthefish2009]

Sorry fish,just re-read your first post,I have got it totaly wrong,it's sloes I can't find,got blackberries everywhere though. Paul

[jbrown14]

Blackberries were up earlier in the summer over here. I was working in the Adirondack mountains surveying damage to power lines after a storm and was actually getting paid to hike when blackberries were up and some early blueberries were ready too. The blueberries weren't very sweet yet, but they were still good. I got to hike through enormous blueberry patches with a few blackberries scattered around, and once or twice, I dropped into bracken nearly as tall as me (and I'm 6ft 1in.)

Berries are done over here...oh well.

[JonnyP]

I was working down at the preppers place today and I thought of you Jonny ;)

I remembered the pile of would you had from my last visit but even you would be impressed by the wood stack that this guy has. Saw my first blacberies down at his place too, seems to be bugger all here at the moment. Even lost all my apples this year as the wind took some and the jackdaws had the others.

Who is the prepper Justin..?

[jus_young]

Who is the prepper Justin..?

PM sent. I don't think its correct for me to post for all to see.

[jus_young]

That almost rhymed!!

[JonnyP]

A bimble along the Cornish Coastpath today. I went out looking for field mushrooms but came back with Blackberries.


http://youtu.be/hukYiFdrW0c

Good vid TC. I like the chilled out music. Also like the way you do everything with just one hand :0)

[fish]

Sorry fish,just re-read your first post,I have got it totaly wrong,it's sloes I can't find,got blackberries everywhere though. Paul

if you cover the cost of postage i can send you a pound or two as i have found a huge amount in a hard to find thicket!

[Mountain Goat]

Strange that you've not had many yet- we've had loads in Ireland.

[TreeCamper]

Good vid TC. I like the chilled out music. Also like the way you do everything with just one hand :0)



Thanks Jonny
Ha you noticed the one handed camera work. Too bloody lazy to carry a tripod mate. LOL :ashamed:

[fish]

like the way you do everything with just one hand :0)


http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m92/fishfish_01/avtars/matron.jpg