We enjoy making wines and jams, so any fruit we can find for free is a bonus. Friends normally give me bags of apples and plums, or they pick tubs of blackberries for me. This year, it seems I'm the only one with apples, and nobody has plums or blackberries.
We've taken a couple of trips out to the countryside recently. After driving about 30 miles on one trip, we finally found one blackberry patch that gave us 2lbs of blackberries, and another place where we picked 3lbs of cherry plums. It was too early for the blackberries, hence only 2lbs. We couldn't get to the rest of the cherry plums as they were deep inside a hedgerow.
One of the small spots on our street has been stripped bare - the brambles are all gone. The house owners preferred everyone to see their bare fence than the brambles that were hanging over. Never mind!
My huge elderberry tree is completely bare. Not a sign of any elderberries at all. And very little we can find out in the wild.
On the plus side, we found some sloes and we've picked 2.5lbs so far. We'll need 3lbs for sloe wine and more for sloe gin, so the more we can get, the better.
I've found rosehips dotted all over the place, so hoping to get loads of these soon.
Me and the missus are out on a mushroom hunting course on Sunday, looking forward to it!
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