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Old 05-18-2011, 07:54 PM
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Ramona Byrd
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Wear long sleeves like they say. Long denim pants with high boots. Take a piece of rope to tie the bucket around your waist so you can pick with both hands. Take heavy gloves, leather for preference, but I mostly grab the vines with one hand in the glove and pick with the ungloved one. That way I can pick lots of berries rapidly. Take large flat boxes from grocery store to put them in from the bucket, GENTLY. I'm talking about car picking here, but if close to home carry them gently and use 2 buckets so they won't squash with so much weight on the bottom ones.

Dunk gently into water at home and drain, I use a round, new fat spatter guard from the dollar store to dunk them and drain them fast. Spread on a cookie sheet like others say and freeze, then put into plastic bags/boxes/or the "suck the air out" protective bags and they will stay frozen till wanted. You'll be amazed at how many berries a small family can get through during the winter. And the jams/jellies make marvelous gifts.
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