Blackberries

Posted by: Volcano

20th Feb 2012 11:48am

I love blackberries, and often get annoyed when I remember they are listed as a weed. How can something which is such a noxious weed and produces fruit so easily be so expensive to buy in the shops? Do you think we should make more of this fruit? If it is such a successful plant shouldn't we be selling more of them? I know they can get out of hand, but ... what is your opinion?

Captain Slog

8th Apr 2012 01:18pm

Hi Sharon, and Everyone,
Yes, those Blackies really are a bugger to pick, aren't they? Especially when you've soptted a nice BIG juicy one and its in the middle of a mass of thorns and vines. That's part of the challenge in picking them, I reckon! We have to earn them but beating the Blackberrie's defenses. As my sister found out, (TOP entry) when she fell off a log into a huge patch of them. Ha! Good one!
Where do you get yours from? The best and biggest ones ever that we got were in Taupo next to the Geothermal Hot Stream that flowed from the AC Baths down to the waikato River, via The Spa. The Stream flowed along side the road and the Blackies were everywhere and they were HUGE. I haven't been there for years so I don't know if they're still there.
Making you all hungry now, aren't I? Droool, dribble, slurp! BLACKBERRY PIES! OOOOH! YUMMY!

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