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StevieBee
Original Poster
4,260 posts
124 months
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Do like a blackberry and apple crumble this time of year but the former seem very thin on the ground this year (other than in shops). This the same elsewhere?
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giblet
2,271 posts
46 months
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Given the troubles RIM are having I can't say I'm surprised 
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condor
6,257 posts
117 months
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Quite a lot round our way - still a bit early, so most are unripe.
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Mobile Chicane
14,018 posts
81 months
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They're quite a bit 'behind' this year.
I know this since August Bank Holiday Monday was always a blackberry-fest in years gone by.
This year I found hardly any, and only those in the sunniest, most sheltered locations were ripe.
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calibrax
2,945 posts
80 months
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StevieBee said: blackberry and apple crumble Now there's a headline... Could well happen to the former, but I'd say that the latter will probably survive (he says, typing this on his shiny new iPad 3...) 
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D1ngd0ng
931 posts
34 months
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For the first time in 5 years the blackberries which run the length of the tow path where I walk the dog are still unripe. Normally by mid August they've been plucked bare.
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Vieste
9,073 posts
29 months
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Stupid weather is to blame.
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Baryonyx
6,860 posts
28 months
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The bushes at the end of my street still look like they have a couple of weeks to go before they are ready for picking!
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Blown2CV
6,511 posts
72 months
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fruit crops have been crap this year across the board. Apples, pears, raspberries, strawberries. Might be better in farms under polytunnels, but growing wild and in gardens, very poor.
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randlemarcus
8,725 posts
100 months
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My 2012 blackberry whisky now has its first bottle hiding in the airing cupboard.
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Davel
6,871 posts
127 months
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Went for a walk yesterday and they are ripening now!
The blackberries that is!
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Puggit
29,487 posts
117 months
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Picked some in a colleague's (overrun) garden at lunch time - they are spot on now (Berkshire)
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Cheese Mechanic
1,459 posts
38 months
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Blown2CV said: fruit crops have been crap this year across the board. Apples, pears, raspberries, strawberries. Might be better in farms under polytunnels, but growing wild and in gardens, very poor. Yep, very true. I've had little out the garden this year , very poor. All down to the appalling "summer" we have had. Farmers have got reduced yields, and they are still combining in my neck of the woods, very late.
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stackmonkey
4,857 posts
118 months
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Blackberries very late here in Derbyshire, I'm a little down south tomorrow so will check out one of my 'locations' en route home.
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Trophybloo
644 posts
56 months
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Been picking in Kent since mid-August, damsons are almost over too. On the bright side cobs are almost there.
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Gretchen
11,911 posts
85 months
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I was picking ripe Blackberries in a Vineyard in Suffolk at the beginning of August, yet closer to home only this last week or so they seem ripe for picking.
The Damsons at the bottom of my garden are just ready this week.
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spikeyhead
7,503 posts
66 months
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Picked some Blackberries today in Staffs. First time this year and there's not many about.
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MaxMX5
332 posts
24 months
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We managed to get a tub full today, didnt look very promising at first thought. Certainly arent as many this year as there have been in previous years.
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littlegreenfairy
9,361 posts
90 months
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Would blackberry gin work do you think? I have tonnes and need some 'thoughtful' Christmas presents.
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Puggit
29,487 posts
117 months
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Picked a kilo this morning in West Berks. Only very sunny spots yielded results, and wasn't as easy as it should have been.
Edited to add that some of the bushes had blossom on them!
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