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Foraging Challenge
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Blimey, it took me ages to find this thread again!
Had a wonderful walk with the dog on the moor today and finally got some sloes. The tree was absolutely covered in them which was amazing as it seems to have been a really bad year for them down here, they're the first I've seen. Also got a tubful of blackberries and a load of hazelnuts/cobnuts.
Yesterday I went to the local park and filled 2 tubs with blackberries, had to leave the rest on the bush which was heart breaking. Don't know if it's just round here but no one seems to be picking the blackberries apart from me. Made an enormous crumble and added some yellow stickered cherries (39p). Does anyone else add a bit a muesli to their crumble topping? It is lush!
Happy foraging everyone.
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The hedge at my house always gets blackberries and it's on the public area near the footpath but I always forget and others don't seem bothered about collecting them..."A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!" ~Thomas Jefferson
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Please could you help me identify:
I think it's rosehip. Am I correct? Thank you 0 -
Also need help with identification! We think sloes, but we're never sure if the nobbly bits are proper thorns or not. Small, about the size of a big fat blueberry. Blue/black in colour and green on the inside - very hard (not ripe) and we weren't brave enough to taste them I'm afraid!
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timehastoldme wrote: »Also need help with identification! We think sloes, but we're never sure if the nobbly bits are proper thorns or not. Small, about the size of a big fat blueberry. Blue/black in colour and green on the inside - very hard (not ripe) and we weren't brave enough to taste them I'm afraid!
They look a bit like wild bullaces, although you would usually find fruit growing in clusters along branches like THIS
Can't see leaf detail in your photos, so you'd have to compare."We could say the government spends like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors, because the sailors are spending their own money."
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More commonly known as hedgerow damsons in England?They look a bit like wild bullaces, although you would usually find fruit growing in clusters along branches like THIS
Can't see leaf detail in your photos, so you'd have to compare.
Fuddle - they look like rosehips to me. The leaves match a wild roseSave £12k in 2025 #2 I am at £4863.32 out of £6000 after May (81.05%)
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Many thanks, I've gone back and had a stare at the picture and I think maybe, that they are bullaces! Well that's nice
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Please could you help me identify:
I think it's rosehip. Am I correct? Thank you
Typical rose-type stems, yes? With thorns? In that case, you're correct. I have a rose-bush just like that in the front garden (Hmm....must harvest the hips.....)."Be the type of woman that when you get out of bed in the morning, the devil says 'Oh crap. She's up.'
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Finally I have been better enough to go out foraging. I only got blackberries. But have made some Bramble Jelly and some blackberry and apple crumble. The trouble is I don't have enough apples, so I've got a punnet of blackberries and nothing to process them with. Our tree did not produce any apples this year, seems that Bramleys are in very short supply in our area this year."Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence."Weight loss challenge:j: week 1~ Napoleon Bonaparte
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JumbleJack did you make elderberry and rosehip jelly or elderberry jelly and rosehip jelly? If you made the first could you share the recipe?"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence."Weight loss challenge:j: week 1~ Napoleon Bonaparte
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