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Post by Sunshine on Feb 27, 2007 6:48:10 GMT -5
man i love fresh black rasberries..i still go pick em when theyre ripe..Course ya gotta get em while the gettins good or the dang birds get em.
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Post by ohtrap on Feb 27, 2007 7:36:40 GMT -5
I have alot of great memories of pickin raspberries with my grandfather. My grandmother would can everyone we picked except for a bowl for breakfest everymorning. Milk and a lil suger and berries.. man thats heaven in a bowl.
After pop passed i would go back home and pick em for grandma, not the large amounts that we use to pick but enough that she enjoyed em for a few days. she was always so pleased when she would see that bucket full of em said it reminded her of pop.
havent picked any in 5 yrs.. think i will this yr.
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Post by Sunshine on Feb 27, 2007 7:38:12 GMT -5
its funny the things that bring back good memories isnt it?
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Post by ohtrap on Feb 27, 2007 7:42:26 GMT -5
yes it is.. thank you for reminding me.
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Post by wheelers on Feb 27, 2007 8:05:28 GMT -5
We have a bunch of rasberries and blueberries on our land up north. Kind of a pain picking them but sure are good eating.
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Post by Sunshine on Feb 27, 2007 11:03:49 GMT -5
wheelers..thats part of the fun of pickin 'em.. its a challenge to get 'em..and it always seem like the fattest and juiciest lookin ones are just outta reach so ya gotta go a little deeper into the briars to get em... fore ya know it, youre on the other side of the vines almost..LOL and the harder ya gotta work for 'em the better they taste..IMO
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Post by woody on Feb 27, 2007 20:16:10 GMT -5
Growing up we had two big patches of black raspberries ;D, and I spent every morning out there picking and getting scratched, but I beat the birds to the berrie's and got them before they started to dry out with the heat of the day. we still go back and pick a few every year, but the berry patch is starting to die after all these years , if I ever get the place I want, I will have a big patch again
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Post by Sunshine on Feb 27, 2007 20:56:30 GMT -5
woody..this fall cut out the old vines and new ones will come out it the spring..kinda like prunin em..theyll have a bigger bunch of berries on em the next year..
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Post by woody on Feb 27, 2007 21:34:55 GMT -5
cath, dad's let them go. but we have taken berries off them as big as a nickle and a few bigger. the only thing caroline lets me have here is a catnip patch. now if I could find a market for it, I'de be rich ;D
got a horse radish patch also that I would love to get rid of, I don't like horse radish, but I do have a decent recipe for a change up lure for K9's with it ;D
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Post by Sunshine on Feb 28, 2007 6:27:01 GMT -5
FOCUS WOODY...... thatd be somethin n ice for you to do for your dad...clean em up for him...i bet he has good memories of berry pickin too.
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Post by woody on Feb 28, 2007 9:41:35 GMT -5
it's hard to FOCUS when there's a drunk chinesee cat lookin sidesways at me ;D
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Post by cattrax on Feb 28, 2007 9:48:17 GMT -5
;D ;D Thats a good one woody, I have to agree!!
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Post by huckleberry on Feb 28, 2007 12:32:36 GMT -5
WOODY.......ya got catnip? really? Ya goin the NTA this year? if so I want some of it. I don't know a damned thing about it, but I can learn I reckon...can ya trans plant it easily?
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Post by spade on Feb 28, 2007 12:40:22 GMT -5
Yep, don't go far tho. Just out to the side of the property we have black rasberries, dew berries, goose berries, and red currants, along with a pink and white grape arbor.
Nothing like going out in the morning and pickin a bowl for breafast, or grabbing a handful while I'm mowing around them.
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Post by mudtracker on Mar 1, 2007 10:36:08 GMT -5
Bout all I got here in numbers worth picking is wild black rasberries they sure are tasty makes the best ice cream topping there is IMO. I even transplanted some into a corner of my garden so that I could get an easy bowlful every now and then. We got wild strawberries but its really hard to get many of them. Goose berries too there not too bad. Been eyeing up some elderberries at my folks place but haven't done anything with them yet.
So what is a dewberry? must be a southern thing
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Post by Sunshine on Mar 1, 2007 15:49:38 GMT -5
my grandma always had gooseberries on the fence row on the way to the outhouse...wed always make a pass on me on the way to the toilet..lol ;D
muddy make some blackrasberry ice cream..its DELICIOUS ;D
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Post by elkaholic on Mar 1, 2007 20:01:38 GMT -5
You do know that snakes like to hang out in berry bushes don't ya?
They sit there and wait for the little critters to come and eat the berries.
I've come face to face with a copperhead or 40 while picking berries.
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Post by Sunshine on Mar 1, 2007 23:53:47 GMT -5
elky..whyd ya have to go and ruin berry pickin for me? ill never pick em again
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Post by Sunshine on Mar 2, 2007 0:56:12 GMT -5
this thread makes me sad now..all those memories that i had left to make...gone
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Post by ohtrap on Mar 2, 2007 6:54:10 GMT -5
have to agree with ya elk.. them copperheads do like them berries.lol. Reminds me of a story.. while picking berries one day with my grandpa.. i was maybe 10. We had went back to a patch we had picked earlier in the week, well I was following the trail picking them when i happen to look down and saw one huge copperhead coiled up about two feet away.. lol. chit i turned around and hauled tail back to pop and told him.. huge rattle snake. he laughed and said boy we dont have em here.so i drag him back and we coulndt see it. So he continues up the path pickin when i happen to look down and there was that snake. Coiled up and laying inbetween pops feet as he straddled it. That thing was just about ready to hit his calf. somehow he had stepped over it. I hollered pop and he froze. lmao. this lasted about30 secs.. felt like 10 min.. but the snake must have decided he had enough. and went off the trail. after pop had a cig.lol. we continued picking.
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Post by Sunshine on Mar 2, 2007 6:55:54 GMT -5
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Post by offshoretrash on Mar 2, 2007 7:48:47 GMT -5
used to pick a lot of them along with possum grapes and muscadines.
with a name like huckleberry you picked any?
i wasn't picking any at the time but we had a rattlesnake in some brairs rattling at our chickens one time other than that i haven't seen any poisonous snakes while picking berrys
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Post by Sunshine on Mar 2, 2007 12:14:33 GMT -5
whats a possum grape?
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Post by offshoretrash on Mar 2, 2007 17:39:34 GMT -5
just wild grapes they very good jelly
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Post by Sunshine on Mar 3, 2007 12:07:49 GMT -5
oh ok...i hadnt never heard of em
are they called that cause ya gotta beat the possum to em?
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Post by mudtracker on Mar 3, 2007 12:27:58 GMT -5
the wild grapes we have here are tiny and are very tart even when fully ripe to the mushy point.
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Post by offshoretrash on Mar 5, 2007 1:25:00 GMT -5
yeah mudtracker you can't eat them but they are good in jelly and some make wine out of them. cat they are called possum grapes because that's what my dad called them when we would go pick them for jelly. lol some call them wild grapes. we don't have that many any more be cause of the clear cutting and burning. i do have a vine a mile or so from my house i might be able to get some off of this year. who here picks dingle berries? ;D
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Post by Earl8656 on Mar 5, 2007 3:03:51 GMT -5
we got a holler up in the foot of the mountain about a mile from me that the old timers call Grape holler. In a normal year it is loaded. Thats where all the game hangs out too!!
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Post by Sunshine on Mar 5, 2007 6:37:34 GMT -5
oh oh oh..i know i know.................all they guys here, not only do they pick em, they emmulate em nicely too................... ;D
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Post by huntwithdogs on Apr 23, 2007 2:17:36 GMT -5
We pick Chokecherries and June berries (aka Saskatoon or Service) in this country. The June berries, are sort of a small version of a huckleberry or blueberry...mmmm...tastey!
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