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Thursday, August 6, 2009

Blackberry Mojo

It's been a good day for picking blackberries! Last night I found an ad on Craigslist for U-pick blackberries, $1 per pound. So bright and early this morning I gave them a call and made arrangements to pick. I drove 1 1/2 hours to New Plymouth, Idaho and spent about 90 minutes picking these monsters.

 
I plugged in my MP3 player and listened to my e-audio book while I picked. I did not know these folks so I let plenty of people know where I was going and a time I thought I would be done. Turns out the folks were very nice and even charged me tax so I was fairly certain they were trying for a legitimate self pick farm.

 
It didn't take too long to fill all the buckets I took with me and I ended up with 21 pounds of berries. I have honestly never seen blackberries like these before. They were huge. The owners told me they were planted 2 years ago and that they were a variety called Apache. They were truly the ugliest blackberries I have ever seen but they were firm and juicy and the vines were thorn less.  Well, maybe not really ugly but not attractive, just giant. I am freezing them on cookie sheets now and will vacuum seal them with my foodsaver in a little while. I plan to render them into juice when the other things I am harvesting are finished. I love using the steamer/juicer and then can them so I have a while before I need to make jelly out of it. It sounds like a lot of steps but it really does save me time.

11 comments:

  1. Heather,

    Yummy, those are huge! Miss the farm we used to pick at.

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  2. Hi Heather..I found your blog today and am IN LOVE with it..All the things I love about this life...Farming, gardening, canning, cooking,wildlife.....it is always so fun to find someone who likes the same things as you do.

    I'll be back..oh, and btw..BEAUTIFUL blackberries.

    I feel like baking a berry pie :-)

    Kindest Regards,
    Kary

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  3. They must grow them EXTRA big in Idaho as those are some huge berries!

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  4. Those are the biggest berries I've ever seen. It's not just their overall size -- some of my golf course specials are about that big, but each drupelet is so huge.

    How's the flavor?

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  5. Wow, monster blackberries! I wonder how they would be for making blackberry wine?

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  6. my goodness those are some of the biggest berries I have ever seen!

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  7. Those are *some* blackberries! And 21 pounds. Wow. Enjoy.

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  8. Holy moly!! Those have to be the biggest things I've ever seen. Worth the drive FOR SURE!! Hope your jelly turns out great!!

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  9. My goodness Heather I have never ever seen such large blackberries. My mouth waters just at the mere sight of them!!!

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  10. I was in oregon for work a couple years ago and was amazed by the black berries growing EVERYWHERE! In the ditch along the road, along the rivers. And nobody to pick them. All the locals I talked to were just kind of like, "eh...blackberries.". They are considered invasive weeds because they just take over. I would love to have that kind of bounty out my back door. Great find!

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  11. I never ever seen these type of blackberries. well job ..........

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