The egg lady had tons and I'm glad I got to pick with her. I still intend to ask her if there's any left but have been so busy with canning right now. But what you see in the basket up there is what I picked today by my house...about 2c. And it looks real bad out there. Most are dried up. They were like that in the summer with the heat we got here but I saw many unripe ones I hoped would make it. Gonna be a tough yr. near me for berries ........but the spiders are happy. EWWWWWWW they are everywhere and I'm glad I bring tongs with me when I pick.
I decided to bring them with me after last yr cuz I'm short and always the great stuff is up high. I figured long tongs would enable me to pull the branches down to get them. This yr I don't need too..........but it has helped me move webs and stuff , its creepy. My bf pressure washed the house in the back yesterday too cuz they are all over the place. Ive never seen it like this. Every time he wants to go smoke on the back porch hes doing Karate moves trying to fight off webs. Yesterday when picking tomatoes I had to do the same and there were some big ones out there. In fact my bf said he sat down last nite to smoke and noticed something by his foot.......and this one even made him jump. Might have been a wolf one. He took the porch broom to shove it off the porch.
I'm wondering if its going to be a hard winter since there's so many around....but then I didn't see that last yr and this winter was long and hard.
All I know is I WANT MORE BERRIES. :)
Your blackbery season is much later than ours. Been there and picked them about a month ago. Not as much as 2 years ago, but did manage to make a pie and freeze some for later and some to my Mom. Don't mind the small ones, but those wolf spiders really are something else, aren't they?
ReplyDeleteI love blackberries and when I used to help my former mother in law pick, most of them ended up in my tummy long before the basket.
ReplyDeleteUgh.. spiders. I would be carrying a blow torch for those.