ontheriver

I just got back from walking my fur baby. Usually my sweetie takes all our babies for a nightly walk, today for some reason I wanted to get outside for awhile. Anyway, I live in the woods down a long dirt road and today I found huge banks of blackberry bushes. They are taller than I am and just loaded with berries. I am new to living in the country, only been here a year. I want to pick them, but my question is, Is it ok to eat them and what can I do with them?

quilter1

Blackberry cobbler-yum. Look at Eleanor Burns recipe for cobbler, it is on her website, the recipe looks easy and good.

jean1941

Wish I had some to pick Best cobbler there is

cherrio

blackberries in a bowl, lil sugar and pour on some cold milk. great snack anytime!!

Quilter7x

Jam is very easy to make. Just get some Sure-Jell at the grocery store (I like the light variety because it uses much less sugar) and you can get canning jars at the grocery store too. No jam can be fresher than picking them in the yard and immediately cooking them down. MMMMMM! :thumbup:

P.S. The berries you want to use are the ones that easily fall off their "stem" when you touch them. If you have to really pull them off, they're not ripe enough.

DebraK

hope you don't get chiggers ;-)

sewingsuz

I just made a bunch of blackberry jam. Just be careful when you pick them, wear long sleeves and long pants. You cna get chiggers. they are a little bug that you can't see and they get under your skin and itch. I got them picking berries in Ohio when I was little.

CarrieAnne

Oh, I love those! We call them black caps here. I use them in muffins, on cereal, kids love them on ice cream and in shakes.

Enchanted Quilter

They are great w/ alil sugar & milk. They are not ripe here yet but the bushes are getting full. Can't hardly wait.

tmw

yes, be careful of chiggers and red spider mites, and of course poison ivy, but it would be fun to pick the berries and eat them fresh,