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[Ed_K]

 

[Larry]

Yeap that's okra.  Delicious fried., pickled, and especially boiled. :D :D  Really goes good with Jeff's favorite – grits. ;D ;D

Be more than happy to ship you a truck load or two – no charge but I'll have to do it before Kathy gets back in town.

[Bro. Noble]

Huckleberries are ripe here.  Pick and eat a few while cutting logs.  We'vegot lots of plants but very few have berries and they are tiny,  but delicious.

[SwampDonkey]

Bro Noble:

Black or red huckleberries? They taste like cranberries don't they? Does anyone on the west coast eat many thimble berry or salmon berry? Not much taste, but the berries are big as your thumb. They look like raspberries and have a big pink blossom. They usually blossomed in April where I lived in Prince Rupert, BC. I'm real glad I'm back in red raspberry and low sweet blueberry country though. ;)

cheers

[Bro. Noble]

Huckleberries are dark blue like small blueberries.  They taste much like blueberries,  but are more 'intense'  for lack of a better way to describe them.

Used to have an old lady in the neighborhood that made her husband a huckleberry pie every summer.  She must have really loved him cause it would have taken her all day to pick the berries.

[SwampDonkey]

Bro Noble:

I've eaten both black (blue) and red huckle berries out west. They call the blue ones Alaskan blue berry and they tasted like cranberry, quite tart. Another berry similar to them are the service berries (Almalanchiar sp.), which are red in my area and pretty much tasteless. But they don't seem to bear heavy crops, would take for ever to pick'm. Those huckleberry and blueberry are all Vacciniums. Some places we worked on the west coast mainland was thickets of red huckleberry. Nightmarish to work in. Well some folks like'm , some not I suppose. :D

[Gilman]

Keeping away from that hot peanut oil!



Teaching can be fun.

[Buzz-sawyer]

that is ONE HEAVY bird

[Buzz-sawyer]

In late June we picked a bunch of BLACK RASBERRIES I got the idea to boil em reduce em strain em and add sugar....then use it to top pure vannila ice cream
KNOCKED ME OUT!!! 8) 8) 8)

[SwampDonkey]

I like Vanilla grapenut ice cream on my red raspberries too. (Only available in New Brunswick) ;) I've been picking 4 litres of red raspberries in my garden each day for the last week. Its amazing how fast they ripen. My patch is 22 feet long and 10 feet deep. Has anyone been poisened by raspberry over dose? :D :D

Of course I've been freezing the vast majority of them. Picked 6 litres for the folks to feed on. ;) My father has a variety of blackberry that is still producing blossoms. We don't have ripe blackberry up here untill August and September. I have a few wild ones on my woodlot. Raspberry is one berry I like to harvest cause there's no bending over or rippen your clothes to shreds. All up-right like man was ment to be since the caveman ;) :D

[Bibbyman]

We did some sawin' today but knocked off in 'the heat of the day' to pick a mess of blackberrys.

One simple pleasure in life is to pick a plump, ripe berry and pop it in your mouth.



Alex and Brooke are getting pretty good at pickin' berrys.  Especailly pointing out where they are and holding the bucket.