Berry picking time!

I saw some one selling "wild" blackerries on craigslist yesterday in our area(Nashville,Tn) They were asking $25 a gallon for them! I almost fell over. I would be a millionaire now if I had got that much for them when I was a kid!lol

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"Whose woods these are I think I know
His house is in the village tho...."

When I was very young, I picked blueberries, and we used a rope or a belt, to tie a bucket with a handle on it to our waist. Worked very well, once you had the technique down, just roll those berries into the bucket.

Here, our blackberries are always ripe around the 4th of July, I had my first taste of them yesterday, yummmmm.

The mulberries were done in April. They were ripe for ONE DAY...and the cowbirds descended upon them and left not a single mulberry.

I have an entire property normally OVERRUN with dewberries and blackberries.

Not ONE. Not a single BLOOM. Not even in the SHADE.

The drought took away all of our bramble fruits! No jelly, no jam, no liqueur, no wine, no juice, no NOTHING this year.

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Peace,
Caliann

"First, Show me in the Bible where it says you can save someone's soul by annoying the hell out of them." -- Chuck

Okies join in your missery. Mine are all fried leaves and all. The few berries we had were sundried before they were ripe. Sure hope it rains soon. My trees are back to fighting over the dogs when they're not begging.

My mom uses gallon milk jugs instead of soda bottles to make her berry picking containers. Similar idea, but she leaves the handle on the milk jugs and puts her belt through them.

I need to get out and check the blackberries around here. We have more dewberry vines than blackberry, but unfortunately the dewberries didn't do well this year. I'd like to get some blackberries to make jelly with since I didn't get any dewberries.

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Well, thanks! That is good news cause we have guineas on the way! Once I get the thicket fixed up, there will be paths through it so I rally needed a good solution. We were getting the g. hens for ticks and possible future squash bugs (havr not seen any here yet, knock on wood) but triple purpose is good!

I wear my old jeans and brush the bottom of the leg with diesel fuel (it'll burn skin, so keep it off you) and it's keeping the chiggers off of me. I wear high-top boots in case of snakes. I've got 6 or 7 gallons washed and waiting in the freezer for jam when I catch my breath... Ooooooo, can't wait!

Weird thing is, the thornless blackberries here taste like washed out imitation berries Wish there were some good ones so I didn't have to battle the brambles.