Hanging like Hemmoroids

[difflock]

Ma blackcurrents are:001_tt2:, that is!

[bobh]

May it never be the other way around😁

 

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[renewablejohn]

I love blackcurrants but what is the secret of picking them quickly. Starting to pick ours tonight once the bees have gone to bed and will probably be doing them all week.

[Paul Jenks]

May it never be the other way around😁

 

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Especially as they can be quite prickly.

[Treemoose]

And may it never turn into a "show us ya arboroids" thread. Lovely bunch you have.

[difflock]

No secret, just time, I find the picking quite theraputic mind, being essentially mindless.

This year Senior Managment decreed we were going to start a bit early (she will make pectin from the greener ones) as with the quantity, they will prob be overripe by the time we are finishing.

We now got 4 soild days (12th hols over here) and weather permitting this will make a big hole in the picking.

SM is also pruning back hard this year, so simply filling a wheel barrow with the Lopper cut branchs and bringing them back to the table to process.

This also allows us to process during showers or downpours too.

In the meantime I have also picked about 50kg of Raspberries.

First 21 cu ft freezer near full, and currently eying up my mothers empty freezer (also a 21 cu ft'r)

Then the Blackberries and Sloes.

Def must get Bees too, instead of fattening the neighbours/villagers.

[Gus McWilliam]

Jonas Swedish Berry Picker, Berry Pickers and Foraging Accessories

A huge part of my year is spent managing fruit pickers. They use these.

[difflock]

17-18mm in dia, and 225 grammes on a 550mm length of branch.

Left the camera in the car today cos it was pissing down.