Vanilla Greek Yogurt that is - with blackberries in it. Right now blackberries are falling off of the shelves in the grocery store. Unfortunatly, they are from Mexico and not from my property. We havn't gotten any rain so the blackberries have not ripened. There were millions of buds on the vines but alas, I don't think we will get many berries. The ones that do decide to brave it and ripen will be small and full of stones instead of plump and fat with juice.
A couple of years ago, we got millions of blackberries - so many that the birds and us shared the bounty thankfully. I still have some in my freezer. I just wish we would get a good couple of days of slow steady rain to soak the ground and ripen the fruit. My luck this will happen while we are at PSG and I'll miss the peak of the season.
I CAN go pick blackberries (and raspberries) at the local farm where we picked strawberries but I just have issues with paying to pick fruit that should be growing on my own land. Next year, we need to look at irrigation - so that we can water the blackberries even if we don't get rain. Right now they are too far away from the pump - we already have 150 feet of garden hose going out to the garden! The plan is to get rainbarrels and water from them instead of putting the strain on the well.
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