BlackBerry Picking Time

Its that time again. Went to our favourite location in the Rubicon
valley 100km NE of melbourne saturday and picked some 3kg of Blackberries in about an hour.

This equates to about $60 worth around Melbourne.

Would have got more , but the dog had cornered a rabbit and it
took some time to humanely calm the situation, and we were already running late after clipping the edge of a wombat hole
and dropping the front wheel into it in the bonnet high grass.

The Blackberries were in generally good condition , but not of
excellant quality and from the look of the crop they have not quite
reached their peak yet.

We divided them up into 150g lots , each in a plastic bag , and then freeze them. We (my wife with my moral support) regularly make apple pies and sponges and we add one lot of Blackberries to an 800g can of apples as the filling.

Robin Miller