Blackberry season

[deborahjross]

Just a note that there is such an abundance this year, I cannot hope to keep up with it. I'm not doing jam, as our pantry is full of guava, plum, and apricot jams from last year (and I don't have enough empty jam jars until we use some of it up), but I freeze them and make and freeze compote to put over ice cream or waffles or stir into yogurt.

Usually I pick from the three superb sites along the road, but this year, the little patch Dave preserved behind the garden has outdone them all. Berries half the size of my little thumb joint, sweet as honey. Oh, my. I went out there yesterday morning and stopped only when I had filled 9 pint baskets. In another week, there will be more.

My fingertips seem to have turned permanently purple. But we will have good eating and sweet memories of summer all winter long...

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[deborahjross.livejournal.com]

Blueberries are our next step. It takes a couple of years to get the bushes establishes, and you need two (they're romantic), but they do okay in this climate. And no thorns!

My friend Bonnie, who lives outside of Portland, has a whole patch of them, freezes them in Ziplock bags for eating all year. They freeze whole very well.