The Great Berry Crop
I have several black raspberry bushes at my house and was waiting for this year’s crop quite excitedly. Last year, birds managed to eat them all before I could really get more than a handful. My dad managed to wrap the bushes in some bird netting to prevent them from eating my crop.
After picking berries for a solid hour, I ended up with about a quart and a half or berries or so for the first harvest. I was sampling some of the harvest while picking. My berries were a little on the small side, but quite sweet and tasty. Farmer hatchy was very happy.
July 15th, 2009 at 7:55 pm
That is fantastic. We’ve been getting great blackberries (rather then black raspberries) here in Tennessee for the past month or so. A few weeks back we dropped into the farmers market to get some before Erin made a blackberry cobbler and ended up with these monsters:
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On the left is one of the leftover blackberries we had and on the right is a fruit from the Promised Land.