All of a sudden the blackberries have gone crazy. This particular supply, above, grows against an old ruin quite nearby, and is always spectacular. The berries fall in cascades and will continue for weeks, almost as if it were a cultivated variety (which it's not). It's one of those rare locations where you just stand in one place, and pick until your punnet is filled.
And here is that punnet.
On the way home we raided Haddock's for our lunch. Some maize (which is just perfect at the moment) and some fruit (the soup was already made). It doesn't get much better than that.
Who ever said 'there's no such thing as a free lunch', obviously didn't live around here!
Soooo envious on so many levels !
ReplyDeleteWow, I can't imagine getting blackberries so late in the year. Lucky you!
ReplyDeleteAnd what lovely berries those are!
ReplyDeleteI have a few backs of blackberries in the freezer, ready for a pie to brighten a dark winter evening.
These went in the freezer too. Blackberry and apple crumble is one of my winter luxuries.
DeleteOh , that autumn harvest does look good. Spring seemed to be coming here but it has just dipped down to 10 degrees C. after 24 yesterday. Brrrr!!
ReplyDeleteYes, I've noticed a few blackberries behaving in a strange manner lately...
ReplyDeleteLots of juicy brambles here as well, just picked a couple of punnets and started a bottle of bramble gin.
ReplyDeleteSurely it can't be scrumping if they don't belong to someone.
ReplyDeleteWell, they don't belong to me. Semi-Scrumping maybe!
DeleteJoin the farmer's club Cro - we get quite a few 'free lunches' in the form of mushroom omelettes (own hens and mushrooms from the field)and we did have plenty of blackberries but suddenly they have gone all seedy. Yours look delicious.
ReplyDeleteOur mushroom season (Cèpes) should begin after the weekend. Watch this space!
DeleteSo envious too. My back garden is a bit wild - but nicely so - there is an essence of tidiness to it.
ReplyDeleteIts main gardener is nature itself and much of it that grows there is via bird droppings. There is an odd tree or bush and rasberries, blackberries and strawberries - maybe reap a punnet or two from each. I allow nature to have her way and (especially) the strawberries find new opportunity each year and in years to come, it is my hope that the berries will have spread to many pies and jams!
Anna :o]
All gardens should have at least one area left to nature.
DeleteMy whole blasted garden has been left to Nature and clearly she prefers jungle!
DeleteI went scrumping for apples in Germany as a kid. The only tree still loaded with fruit was surrounded by chest high nettles and, as it was a very hot day, we were all dressed only in shorts and plimsols. We beat a path through the nettles just wide enough for me to reach the tree which I climbed and promptly fell out the other side of.
As I wear shorts for most of the year, my legs are permanently stinging from nettles.
DeleteOh....those beautiful berries!!!!!
ReplyDeleteThe tresses are between a foot and two feet long. Amazing.
DeleteAn experience I don't believe anyone would claim to have here in AUS ~ gathering a free lunch. I have thought about it long, and maybe the closest you get is nicking mangoes off your neighbors tree, and only then if they are hanging over the fence.
ReplyDeleteIt's very much 'open door policy' here, we all tell each other to help themselves. But everyone has a bit of everything anyway, so a lot goes to waste.
DeleteMy daughter's Mangoes all get eaten by Lorikeets (sp?).
Lorikeets huh? Certainly the flying fox like mangoes too.
DeleteIt's been a fantastic time for fruit and veggies this year. A lot of wasps around too so you have to a bit careful picking stuff. Your sweet corn look good.
ReplyDeleteI too am happiest when my punnet is full. Especially now that I know what a "punnut" is. My how you have expanded my world Cro!
ReplyDeleteAs they say; 'two countries divided by a common language'. It's a nice word, isn't it!
DeleteThat's quite a haul. When I was a kid, we loved to go blackberry-picking, and then make cobbler. Lots of cobbler. I hope you're planning something yummy like that with those "free lunch" berries of yours.
ReplyDeleteCrumbles!
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