Resourcefulness: The budgeter's friend

ladyholly

We are very jealous of everyones prolific blackberry harvest. The ones round here are not doing too well at all.Dh makes blackberry vodka.as we dont eat jams and jellies/

kayannie

Makingabobor2 said:

So Google lens told me these  were rosehips, but they look  much bigger than the photo on a recipe I looked up. Are they actually crab apples? 

These look  very much like the hips from the 'Rosa Rugosa'. These hips are much larger than the wild dog rose. We used to have this rose in the garden of our previous house - it can be white or pink & smells wonderful.
KA

foxgloves

@ladyholly- I do have a batch of blackberry & pear gin on the go. 
What a shame your local blackberries haven't flourished this year. I wonder if the brambles have maybe been cut back, as it does seem a good year for them in general. They are certainly earlier this year. I remember back in the day, we usually went blackberrying at August BH weekend, but I think our garden blackberries will be finished by then this year. 
If you can't get any, I suppose you could look out for yellow-stickered raspberries & make raspberry vodka instead?
F

Makingabobor2

I think you are right FG, they do seem to be a lot earlier this year. 

foxgloves

I did wonder what those huge round rosehips were, @kayannie, so your post saved me the time lookingnit up. Yes, the ones from the wild dog rose are quite different, I agree.

Hello Sunbeams....though I feel like one hot sticky mess rather than anything as edifying as a sunbeam! Yeuch to these very hot temperatures & roll on the season of mists & mellow fruitfulness. Despite stupid heat, I have just about managed to do everything I planned for today. Budget-friendly bits as follows:
*Watered all the veg....well, after interring a mouse. Thank-you Soot!
*Received a really nice reply from company about sharp piece of non-nut vegetative material in their peanut butter. They are going to send us some vouchers.
*Did some laundry as knew it'd dry v quickly & I do like a good turnover of summer clothes when it's so hot. Dry in half an hour!
*Today's garden pickings: French beans.
*Picked next week's meals from our August master meal plan. Did a couple of tweaks to make optimum use of our homegrown produce & also where I'd only got 2 meals from a chicken instead of the 3 it will very easily provide.
*Wrote grocery shopping list.
*Did a bit of veg (glut) triage. Some will be used during planned kitchen witchery over the next few days. The tomatoes have pulled their socks up & are ripening well now so they will be the next thing with which I need to get seriously busy.
*Easy nosebag tonight. I've made a pizza & topped it with tuna, red onions, tomatoes, courgette slices, peppers, jalapeno, oregano & cheese. Big salad prepped to go with it & now that the tomatoes are ripening, it's a salad entirely grown by us, which makes me feel that all the hard work is worth it.
I just need to muster the energy for a shower & hairwash & that is going to be me done for the day.
Take care everyone in these high temperatures.
F x


 

Makingabobor2

kayannie said:

Makingabobor2 said:

So Google lens told me these  were rosehips, but they look  much bigger than the photo on a recipe I looked up. Are they actually crab apples? 

These look  very much like the hips from the 'Rosa Rugosa'. These hips are much larger than the wild dog rose. We used to have this rose in the garden of our previous house - it can be white or pink & smells wonderful.
KA

Thanks. Take it they are still ok to use?

rtandon27

@foxgloves - you have heat? - it's been downright chilly and quite autumnal today in the very west of the southeast!  My hibiscus is already shedding it's leaves and the blackberries in the garden have come to an end!  I've even switched from my summer coffee mug to an autumn one!

DawnW

@Makingabobor2 see https://www.ediblewildfood.com/rugosa-rose.aspx#google_vignette

scandimore

My garden blackberries are still mostly red, must be as we're very north, very wet, and they are growing in shadow,..very soon though, it'll be proper jamming time here. Your hedgerow jelly sounds lovely.

kayannie

Makingabobor2 said:

kayannie said:

Makingabobor2 said:

So Google lens told me these  were rosehips, but they look  much bigger than the photo on a recipe I looked up. Are they actually crab apples? 

These look  very much like the hips from the 'Rosa Rugosa'. These hips are much larger than the wild dog rose. We used to have this rose in the garden of our previous house - it can be white or pink & smells wonderful.
KA

Thanks. Take it they are still ok to use?

I wasn't sure, as I've only ever used the 'normal' hips in a hedgerow jam. However, I have just looked them up & it says they are edible, although, as with all hips, it's wise to remove all the pips & hairy bits inside as they are irritants. I have lots of these roses growing wild by me so will be using them in future, less fiddly to deal with than the small hips!.
KA