**Blackberries**

fryup

Great year for Blackberries bumper crop out there...

so if you're idle and got nothing to do today, why not go out and pick some and then make a tart or stew some to have with your cereal

mmmmm delicious ( and full of goodness)

Muise...

you're late to the party - my fingers & lips have been purple for weeks!

you can also soak them in vodka/gin for a week or so, then filter the liquid for a fine drop of September, and a cure for whatever ails you.

force eleven

Whenever someone says there is a bumper crop of blackberries out there, I'm seeing in my mind lots of mobile phone devices dangling from the hedges....

AnonoBoy

Android Berries are really what I've been about for the past few years.

Davidth88

my freezer is already full of blackberries .... indeed a bumper crop this year . Also a great year for apples .... get scrumping !!

Had quite a few basically free apple and blackberry crumbles this year , only paid for the crumble bit !

yum

Insect Overlord

Are they still good for picking? I usually harvest everything from the lane near my friend's house. Thought I'd left it too late this year!

Noopti

Had a rogue bush appear in my garden this year out of nowhere....packed with the things. Every week I have been going out and collecting the ripe ones, and then the week later it is full of more ripe ones. Delicious!

uch

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Android Berries are really what I've been about for the past few years.

Anal Berries in My case

Sgt. Al Powell

I was picking some I happened past during the heatwave there and as I was doing it, a big **** off bumble bee tried to kill me. Dodged and weaved for a bit but he was adamant, he wanted me dead and continued to attack me. So I took off down the road in a zig zag fashion, ducking amd bobbing, waving my hands about when he attacked my ear, which was the point at which I made, what can only be described as, a primal yelp. That seemed to work and so I went on about my way, walking past around a dozen or so young teenagers who wear in hysterics, bastards.

Moral of story: don't pick fruit if you're a big jessie.

kneemos

Insect Overlord wrote: »

Are they still good for picking? I usually harvest everything from the lane near my friend's house. Thought I'd left it too late this year!

Mostly mouldy at this stage.

sunflower27

They are not cheap. 2 very small packs for €5 in Dunnes. Seems a lot for something that wont fill you up at all....

Davidth88

sunflower27 wrote: »

They are not cheap. 2 very small packs for €5 in Dunnes. Seems a lot for something that wont fill you up at all....

anybody who pays for blackberries at this time of year needs their head examined


They are everywhere , just on the turn now where I am ( I stopped picking this week ) ... but I have about 3 Kg in the freeze for free !

keithclancy

Don't pick them near a road, the shít that comes out the back of a Diesel car is quite bad for you.

tin79

I tried to make Jam out of mine.

Now it wont recharge

Annasopra

kneemos wrote: »

Mostly mouldy at this stage.

Nah I picked loads this week

Oink

keithclancy wrote: »

Don't pick them near a road, the shít that comes out the back of a Diesel car is quite bad for you.

There I was on a lovely sunny day cycling by the river, with the road nearby, when I saw all the blackberries. I ate them. I ate them all despite the pollution. Fo fukks sake, I want some fukkin poetry in my life and I'm not going to let the fukkin pollution ruin the fukkin beauty of the moment. :-)

kneemos

Is it hazelnut time or is it past?

Muise...

kneemos wrote: »

Is it hazelnut time or is it past?

give it a few weeks - they're just pale and velvety now.

fathead82

The birds have them all gone around here,purple birdsh1te everywhere.

Ghost Buster

fryup wrote: »

Great year for Blackberries bumper crop out there...

so if you're idle and got nothing to do today, why not go out and pick some and then make a tart or stew some to have with your cereal

mmmmm delicious ( and full of goodness)

Bah. About three weeks late my friend. Went out with the kids and filled a gallon bucket along 4km of country bothareen!:)
Two black berry and apple tarts later and several freezer bags of the wee lovelys in the freezer:D

Cody Pomeray

The blackberries are all gone out my way, withered and picked. I haven't seen good, fresh blackberries in nearly a fortnight.

fryup

Ghost Buster wrote: »

Bah. About three weeks late my friend. Went out with the kids and filled a gallon bucket along 4km of country bothareen!:)

not at all, still plenty out there:p