Harvesting in the last 4-ish weeks - part 2

Last weekend was another harvesting and foraging event. The foraging on Sunday is, however, somewhat a result from our lack of blackberries (the space where our greenhouse is on now had a high number of mature brambles growing on it which gave us lots of fruit); it seems that the birds and squirells prefer red fruits and blackberries are mostly left on the bushes around Letchworth...

The foraging is also not a story of success, but of hard work: we spent 1 hour near a long ditch, path and hedge; my upper body muscles are acking as quite a few of the blackberries were growning nearer the lower point of the ditch, which could only be reached by sticking one's bum out, andusing all the length of one's arms (hard work, and yes: I think you really wanted to know this level of detail).

Obviously, this all has a very positive side too: one starts to appreciate much, much more the value and person power of a jar of, say, blackberry jam, if one knows that in a bumper fruit year it's so much work to collect a decent amount of blackberries.

Also the harvest of some salad, the green tomatoes, squashes wasn't a total success, but more of an emergency one, as we don't believe the frost will do them any good. So not every "success" story on here, is really as much a success as we would like it to be, or at least: there is a lot of hard work.

SG

Saturday's harvest.

Foraging on Sunday: blackberries, hawthorn berries and rosehip berries.