Picked Half A Pound Of Blackberries Today !

[mikey4444]

Here we are, halfway through October and yet I managed to pick half a pound lovely blackberries to day, around the Usk Reservoir, which I shall have with some custard this evening. I can't recall picking any this late in the year before !

[Jackdaw33]

Up here the autumn half term holiday used to be known as blackberry week.

[mikey4444]

When I was a boy, there was a saying that had a line in it that said...
" and after the end of September, blackberries were not to be eaten as the Devil has peed on them", or something in that line !

[Chipchopper]

According to tradition, they shouldn't be picked after 11th of October.
Hopefully you can disprove this as a myth.

[mikey4444]

Well, I ate as many as I picked to take home and they were very nice.

What a lovely day by the reservoir by the way. Two Red Kites in evidence all afternoon, and myself and the Yorkshire Wolfhound had a lovely picnic and walkies !

"I have recently discovered Morrisons Lattice Pork Pie...only £1 and we both wolfed it done with real gusto !"

[zebo]

The bushes around here still have loads of blackberries, Norfolk, they're OK to cook, I'll be out tomorrow.

[Ann]

//blackberries were not to be eaten as the Devil has peed on them//
We say here in the Midlands "the devil has spat on them!"
Well we didn't care about a bit of spit, we just got back from our holiday and picked some from our garden - very nice they were with some stewed apple.
Also amazed to find 3lb runner beans and a whole basinful of cherry tomatoes left to pick - we thought the nights had been so cold it would have finished them all off but we found a real harvest!