Picking blackberries - more global warming?

[WendyS]

Couldn't believe my eyes today when I saw a couple picking wild blackberries from a hedgerow as I passed by.
Is my memory playing tricks or don't they normally ripen around the end of August?
I have some cultivated blackberries growing in my garden but they are still l tiny green nodules due to the lack of rain.

[kazza12345]

usualy last week in aug/first in september time. A lot of things seem to be mucked up this year

[Ethel]

Here in the West Midlands it is usual to pick blackberries from late July.

This site confirms it:

http://www.uktvfood.co.uk/index.cfm?uktv=insea son.month&sID=5180

[Cetti]

It is unusual Wendy, but as kazza says everything is all over the place this summer. They could be earlier due to the increase in insects that's needed to pollinate them .... certainly no shortage of those this year!

Yes, generally it was the last week in August that people went Blackberry picking, but so far I haven't seen that many, even the cultivated ones at our local PYO are few and far between.

http://www.pfaf.org/database/plants.php?Rubus+ fruticosus