OT its hot, did I say its hot? OT

[Plymouthy Adams]

went to town to pick up a few small incidentals..while enroute I went by a vacant field and the blackberies were ripe and waiting for the harvest..I went to General Dollar and bought a plastic bucket and almost filled it up..temp was about 98 degrees...my legs (shorts) tell the tale..either that or I have an aggressive cat at home...anyway..remodel on hold..it time to make preserves..

[Flatie46]

There not ripe at my house yet but soon will be, I'd love some blackberry cobbler.

[radioguy7]

Can you set up a big fan, point it north and turn it on high to blow some of that warm air up our way?? Been nothing but cold and rainy for the past three weeks!!

[Don Coatney]

Today I went to work at the Federal Reserve Bank in Kansas City and it was hot. The cash was ripe but I could not harvest any. I really want to preserve some. Do I need a bigger or smaller bucket? If I used cash to make cobbler I am afraid I would be clobbered.

[Plymouthy Adams]

Don..I believe that stuff is put up with Red Dye #2...not healthy for you...

[Rodney Bullock]

went to town to pick up a few small incidentals..while enroute I went by a vacant field and the blackberies were ripe and waiting for the harvest..I went to General Dollar and bought a plastic bucket and almost filled it up..temp was about 98 degrees...my legs (shorts) tell the tale..either that or I have an aggressive cat at home...anyway..remodel on hold..it time to make preserves..

Tim I was at an old auto parts store in Capital hts Maryland 1 week ago and the house next door had a large blackberry tree. The cement below was cover(stained) with it. I pulled a few and started home. In the old days we used to can them as well and the ones that were left over we would cook them down in milk and dumplings:Dnow thats some good eatin. My fingers were purple. I long for the good old days.

[radioguy7]

Used to pick them too up on my grand parents farm when I was a kid, along with eldeberry's. Now the farm land has all been developed into housing and a paved road runs right thru where the bushes used to be. I long for how things were as well. I think that is my main attraction to old vehicles, they are examples of when times were much slower and people still had some values left. Now it seems it's every man for himself and get the heck out of my way.

[greg g]

Rodney, I believe what you described is a Mublerry tree. They look like

black berries but are not. Black berries are a product of a thorned cane style bush. Mulberries are the fruit of a tree. We have a Mullberry tree in our back yard, in fact a couple of them. Ours are not ripe yet, probably a week or two, and with the seasonal difference between here and your area, I would bet that what you saw was Mullberries. The are less sweet, and have soft seeds but are very similar in appearence.

This may explain the behavior of our squirrels and birds:

Unripe fruit and green parts of the plant have a white sap that is intoxicating and mildly hallucinogenic

[Plymouthy Adams]

I like Mulberries also..they are quite a rariety here in the south..I do know of two trees down mear the river on the south side of town..not ever knowing till today (greg's post) of the intoxicationg effect of the not-ripe fruit..it explains why I could never get a ripe berry here...and why so many people seem to fall off the bridge..I just naturally put the blame on the close approximity of the liquer store..

[Rodney Bullock]

Hey Greg, your right. The blackberry bush did have thorns. The tree has the mulberrys. we ate both. I did not know I was getting high off the mulberry tree.:rolleyes:Mum, no wonder the summertime was like a Sly Stone record.

What about the reb berries that were on the bush what were they called. On our farm we still have those trees and bushes. They grow wild, I even picked some cherry's off the tree yesterday. The pear and peache tree no longer bare fruit. maybe I can plant some new trees for the future;)

[Don Coatney]

Rodney;

I believe the red berries are rasberries. They grow wild on thorny bushes.

[Dennis Hemingway]

It's 100 F here now. I went outside to check the garden and this guy was waiting for me on the patio. Good thing it's not a venomous (poisonous) snake.

Dennis:eek:

[TodFitch]

...snip...This may explain the behavior of our squirrels and birds:

Unripe fruit and green parts of the plant have a white sap that is intoxicating and mildly hallucinogenic

There were mulberry trees in our neighborhood when I was growing up. We did eat the ripe berries. Never knew we should have been eating them green.

There were also pyracantha bushes in the area. The birds would not leave those alone. The rumor was that they were intoxicating to birds but I don't see that in Wikipedia.

[greg g]

I like red raspberries, and black berries, and black raspberries (which are not blackberries) and we have a smaller species of black berries called black caps about the size of you little finger nail and about 2x sweeter then those already mentioned.

Used to go berry picking with my Grandmother, blue berries and huckle berries and goosberries when we could find them. Most of the patches we picked are now replaces with suburban sprawl. There is no comparison between the commercially grown stuff and the real thing for taste.

[Plymouthy Adams]

there was a undisturbed secion of original pararie outside of Rantoul Il. that I loved to walk etc. Wild strawberries, black raspberries and the only time I had ever seen gooseberries in the wild..gooseberry pie anyone?

[brian hood]

Dennis- That is enough to make you forget about a garden and eat meat!

[Lou Earle]

Rodney;

I believe the red berries are rasberries. They grow wild on thorny bushes.

they also grew on my butt arms legs etc when I fell of my trike and bike as a kid

[pflaming]

We had a mullberry tree in Nebraska when I was a kid. Mom mixed the mullberries with rhubarb, now that is good eatin also. My wife mixes any kind of berry with rhubarb, have you wives try on, takes a pie or two to get the ratio but it is worth it. Add a scoup of ice cream!!!!!!!!:)

[greg g]

Last year I made a pie with a quart of blueberries and a quart of mullberries. Was a very good pie, but what I foud unusual was the blue berries (nice and firm with a good skin when put in just about dissappeared in teh pie and the soft mullberries held up in the cooked filling.

[Rodney Bullock]

You guy's are making me hungry. I think you all have stumbled on something. When we were young and eating these berries and things, I never got sick. I mean not very sick at all. The colds were always present. Our systems can take much more then the folks of today. When I think of pulling peaches from our tree and just wiping them with my hand I frown.

There is no humidity around here so it's not very hot, we have had rain almost constantly. The car shows are backed up because of rain dates.

The crops are late as well, I was in southern Maryland and I did not see any corn, or beans up yet.

I can't get my wife to make a pie, you guy's are so lucky. My mother and Grandmother would make a pie at the drop of a hat.:rolleyes:The modern era, whats the world coming to. Your lucky to make it out alive.

[knighthawk]

I live on this 100 year old farm site ibn Kansas, we have a plum tree, mulberry tree, and newer dwarf apple and peach trees we had a late frost this year, after the blossoms were out , so no mulberrys, plums, or peaches . Last year we had all , but no apples.....didn't know about the 'green ' mulberrys.....hmmmmmmm....................PS. upper 90's here with ALOT of humidity ! about 108 heat index !

Edited June 20, 2009 by knighthawk
temp : HOT

[greg g]

Hey Rodney, nobody makes it out alive!!!! By the way, make your own darn pie. You can buy a ready to bake crust, pick your fruit wash it sprinkle some sugar on it, a little lemon juice, some cinnimon, a pinch of salt, mix a couple ounces of water with a tsp of cornstarch, mix that in, pour it in the shell, put the top crust on pinch the edges, slit the top, you can put your initials in it with your old switch blade. Now stick it in the oven. If you wanna get fancy break and egg, mix in a bit of water, brush it on the top and then sprikle that with some sugar before it goes in. 350 degrees for 40 minutes or so.

Pretty soon you might even develop a work at home business, and sell the pies out of your trunk at the shows you go to.

[55 Fargo]

We also have wild gooseberries, wild raspberries,( but the tame variety grow like weeds here,blue berries, Sasakatoon berries (like huckleberries), choke cherries, wild plums.

Temps are warm by our standards, 85 f, UV 9..........Fred

[Dennis Hemingway]

Dennis' date=' poisonous or not, if I found that on my patio it would be one dead snake. We don't get many around here. Have ran over a few garden snakes in the past 35 years or so with the lawn mower though.[/quote']

The thing is, as lone as he is around I know that we will not have any mice or poisonous snakes around.

Dennis:eek:

[Rodney Bullock]

DiD somebody say the S word:eek: NO!

I love apple trees, I wonder if I planted one would it grow and produce in a year? Then apple PIE.

It was so cool today we needed a sweater;)