Brambles

[trappa 518]

Was out brambling yesterday. This time last year i had loads of brambles but this year really poor so far.

Anyone else been brambling? any thoughts? i dont know whether its a poor year or the season is a little slower coming to fruition than last year.

time will tell i suppose.

Anyway, its bramble and apple crumble for tea! i would post a pic but my camera bust on holiday. Its a shame as my a+b crumble is to die for!!

[Tuzo 251]

Its a bumper year on my allotments mate, loads about.

[trappa 518]

Maybe its just here then.

The little hob i got from you is a cracker ko shamo. I havent got him working yet, but he is a funny little character.

cheers

[fireman 10,995]

Been training a bramble in my garden for the last couple of years as it's better along a fence than barbed wire and had a bumper crop this year,ours were ready weeks ago and most brambles round here have finished now.Did come across some ripe sloes/damsons?? the other day,don't know but seems early for them yet.A & b crumble is the way forward use 1/2 oats,1/2 flour cracking stuff.

[trappa 518]

Been training a bramble in my garden for the last couple of years as it's better along a fence than barbed wire and had a bumper crop this year,ours were ready weeks ago and most brambles round here have finished now.Did come across some ripe sloes/damsons?? the other day,don't know but seems early for them yet.A & b crumble is the way forward use 1/2 oats,1/2 flour cracking stuff.

There was a few sloes but not many, prob a little too early for them. I think it might just be round me thats not great for brambles OR maybe someone else was picking them an hour before me?!? who knows.

[maty j 6]

Plenty of blackberries but hardly any sloes my way. There was more sloes around a month back. Don't know If birds eat them or someone else has picked a lot but the branches seem pretty much empty.

[Jim Grant 4]

Sloes, Damsons and Crab Apples will be hard to find up here. Frost killed off nearly all of the blossom. Plenty Brambles but very few ripe as yet, will need a couple of weeks.

 

Still have a few apples ready so guess it will have to be some A&B pie.

Edited September 24, 2008 by Jim Grant

[mattydski 560]

I picked brambles about a month ago, none left now

plenty in the freezer though.

Matt

[maty j 6]

Got a few In the freezer and still loads about my way on the bush. Just made up the first batch of blackberry vodka this year too. What does everyone else do with them??

[JoeD 24]

Up our allotment and around our area we have thousands, I have had to freeze a load, as we usually make jam but we ran out of sugar and time.

[Malt 379]

Been training a bramble in my garden for the last couple of years as it's better along a fence than barbed wire and had a bumper crop this year,ours were ready weeks ago and most brambles round here have finished now.Did come across some ripe sloes/damsons?? the other day,don't know but seems early for them yet.A & b crumble is the way forward use 1/2 oats,1/2 flour cracking stuff.

I had a huge bush of them at the bottom of my garden, coming over from the property that backs on to mine. A new person moved in there though, and cleared the fecking lot back! I don't blame him, they were in amongst a huge overgrown privet hedge, only problem now though, I can see right into his fecking garden, and there used to be loads of birds nesting in that hedge too....

[Jim Grant 4]

Dug up all of my Rhubarb a couple of years ago. Best thing I ever did. Plenty of crap apples to make a pie filling from. I stew Gooseberries for my brekkie-bix.

 

The wild berries are a fortnight or so from being ready, the thornless berries in the fruit garden have taken on the bit of colour and might be ready before them.

 

Too much rain over the last wee bit and the mushrooms are now B******d.