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Finding a ripe berry patch is one of life's little pleasures.
Posted on 4/21/24 at 4:16 pm
Posted on 4/21/24 at 4:16 pm
Went hiking with my kids today and as we walked the trails I noticed a bunch of green blackberries just starting to turn pink. Made a note that we'd have to come back in May when they were ripe.
On our way back I pulled in the side of the road somewhere I'd been eyeing and there it was.
Bramble patches full of ripe dewberries. I grew up picking these things along the fence rows for miles. All gone now.
Kids and I picked for maybe 20 minutes and had filled a big cup each up.
It's a fun little hunt but rewarding at this time. Every where we went we just kept finding more and more. Nice big juicy ones too.
Now's the perfect time if you like berries or just want something to do.
Fun with kids or friends or just as a solitary thing.
Spend an hour or so in some good patches and you've got enough for a couple cobblers or the like. Make tea with them, lemonade, ice cream.
Anyone else like foraging or similar things?
On our way back I pulled in the side of the road somewhere I'd been eyeing and there it was.
Bramble patches full of ripe dewberries. I grew up picking these things along the fence rows for miles. All gone now.
Kids and I picked for maybe 20 minutes and had filled a big cup each up.
It's a fun little hunt but rewarding at this time. Every where we went we just kept finding more and more. Nice big juicy ones too.
Now's the perfect time if you like berries or just want something to do.
Fun with kids or friends or just as a solitary thing.
Spend an hour or so in some good patches and you've got enough for a couple cobblers or the like. Make tea with them, lemonade, ice cream.
Anyone else like foraging or similar things?
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Posted on 4/21/24 at 4:17 pm to fr33manator
That looks berry fun 
Posted on 4/21/24 at 4:18 pm to fr33manator
Ripe blackberries are awesome. Put a little sugar on them...
I found a ton of them in City Park that were still green, went back two weeks later had got a bushel full of ripe berries.
I found a ton of them in City Park that were still green, went back two weeks later had got a bushel full of ripe berries.
This post was edited on 4/21/24 at 5:00 pm
Posted on 4/21/24 at 4:18 pm to fr33manator
We find dewberries, blackberries and little strawberries.
You have to watch for snakes when you pick dewberries along the road.
Mice like dewberries and snakes like mice.
You have to watch for snakes when you pick dewberries along the road.
Mice like dewberries and snakes like mice.
Posted on 4/21/24 at 4:20 pm to fr33manator
33 one of the simple pleasures of growing up in rural southern Louisiana as a kid. Stickers, snakes, heat never stopped us from filling up buckets of blackberries. My mom made the best black berry cobbler and just eating black berries and cream were just simple pleasures of being a kid. Good memories
This post was edited on 4/21/24 at 4:21 pm
Posted on 4/21/24 at 4:21 pm to fr33manator
Love finding dewberries. Found a ton down in Dulac week after Easter.
Posted on 4/21/24 at 4:22 pm to fr33manator
I remember the days of yore when TulaneLSU and mother would frolic spring afternoon days away strolling the trails looking for the sweetest berries imaginable.
Posted on 4/21/24 at 4:22 pm to fr33manator
My neighbors back yard is over grown and on the property line there are some wild black raspberries. He has no clue they exist
Posted on 4/21/24 at 4:23 pm to Sput
got a ton of them in my backyard. waiting for them to ripen.
also have tons of muscadines waiting to get bigger and ripen too
also have tons of muscadines waiting to get bigger and ripen too
Posted on 4/21/24 at 4:24 pm to fr33manator
I was talking about this with my Dad yesterday. We had a spot behind a fence leading into some woods when I was a wee lad.
Posted on 4/21/24 at 4:28 pm to fr33manator
We used to do that all the time as kids, but it’s probably been 20+ years since I’ve last had a dewberry.
Handful of dewberries on top of some bluebell homemade vanilla ftw.
Handful of dewberries on top of some bluebell homemade vanilla ftw.
Posted on 4/21/24 at 4:28 pm to Lsupimp
A bunch of vacant land and cows lived across the river where we grew up. Lets just say there were some very juicy berries where we used to pick them. The occasional oh shite!!! there's a snake ABORT ABORT never stopped us 
Posted on 4/21/24 at 4:30 pm to fr33manator
Thanks for this thread. It brings back some fond memories.
When I was in elementary school my parents would take me to go blackberry picking along the banks of Sandy Creek or Comite River.
We'd each pick a small bucket of berries and I knew that mom was going to bake us a blackberry cobbler and muffins soon.
Thanks again.
When I was in elementary school my parents would take me to go blackberry picking along the banks of Sandy Creek or Comite River.
We'd each pick a small bucket of berries and I knew that mom was going to bake us a blackberry cobbler and muffins soon.
Thanks again.
Posted on 4/21/24 at 4:30 pm to fr33manator
I used to pop them off the vine and eat on the spot until I realized dogs and other critters peed all over those things.
Posted on 4/21/24 at 4:32 pm to North Dallas Tiger
Honey suckle.
Posted on 4/21/24 at 4:34 pm to fr33manator
Childhood memories picking Those, muskydines (however you spell), pears, persimmons, apples, peaches, etc……
Posted on 4/21/24 at 4:46 pm to fr33manator
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Finding a ripe berry patch is one of life's little pleasures
I thought this was a pornhub thread
Posted on 4/21/24 at 4:48 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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I used to pop them off the vine and eat on the spot until I realized dogs and other critters peed all over those things
Whatever that little stuff called "Snake's spit" was on them also lets just say I may have popped a few in my mouth. I guess the no fuks given applies here.
This post was edited on 4/21/24 at 4:50 pm
Posted on 4/21/24 at 4:49 pm to fr33manator
We have quite a few raspberry bushes in our yard. I was looking at them the other day when I was doing some yardwork. They're not quite ready yet.
Posted on 4/21/24 at 4:51 pm to fr33manator
There was a two acre berry patch near me growing up. One of my friends, Tommy, got bit on his foot by a copperhead and he lost a toe from it. From then on, we were really careful, but my mom would make jams and jellies with the gallons we'd pick.
In honor of Tommy, we called her jam Tommy's Toe Jam. A little inside joke in our family.
In honor of Tommy, we called her jam Tommy's Toe Jam. A little inside joke in our family.
This post was edited on 4/21/24 at 4:51 pm
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