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Locations of fruit trees/bushes to pick from in Stafford?
- Thread starter bexley18
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Cheers for the heads up here. I have now 6lb of damsons, 8lb of blackberries and nearly 4lb of elderberries waiting to be turned into wine. I've also got permanently red stained fingers, nettle stings on nettle stings, and arms that look like I've been self harming.
Gramaisc
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Are you saying that you didn't do this to yourself..?
It wuz the thorns guv', 'onest!
Withnail
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May i recommend some steepage here - put a lb of them with 4-6 oz of sugar and a bottle (70cl) of gin/vodka into a receptacle that will take such a quantity of the above - 1 lt of space will suffice.
Turn the receptacle over once a day until the sugar has obviously dissolved - this will take between three and seven days. Agitate once in a while, or not at all, for three or four months. Decant - preferably, but not necessarily, through muslin - into one or several stoppered somethings.
Give as gifts for Xmas or consume as and when required. Win win.
flossietoo
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Blackberry brandy. Nectar of the Gods. Use sparingly - anyone taking the merest sip will fall helplessly in love with the concoctor.
flossietoo
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Yes. A tad less sugar.
It is smooth, gloopy, fruity and sweet.
Then you are drunk.
It is smooth, gloopy, fruity and sweet.
Then you are drunk.
United57
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6 bags in the freezer
Gramaisc
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Beware of keeping too many spare bags - http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/20...after-bag-full-of-bags-under-the-sink-bursts/ .
peggy
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I'm thinking of planting an Apple tree in the garden. In my fantasy world I shall be able to tell the children to go and pick their own fruit for their lunch boxes, which they will happily do, whilst filling a basket of fresh produce ready for their mother to bake homemade apple pie. In reality, I'm sure they will refuse to eat anything with a slight blemish or discoloured skin and as for picking their own fruit, they can't even pick their own washing up. Ah well, I like the dream.
staffordjas
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Beware of keeping too many spare bags - http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/20...after-bag-full-of-bags-under-the-sink-bursts/ .
Gosh! I haven't got 40,000 bags, but got quite a few bag fulls in the garage that I save for bin-liners . Now I've got ammunition for my argument with hubby that we don't need to keep so many as "they might be needed one day" , as I sneak them into the blue recycling bin .
We've had a little apple tree at the bottom of the garden for a few years (would be a big apple tree, but I keep giving it a 'short , back and sides' ), but despite it producing lots of apples the slugs and birds tend to get a taste of each one first. Suppose if I spent £'s buying special sprays etc we might get more than about 3 eatable ones each year, but seems a bit too much hassle to me.
Apricot
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We've got an apple tree, and the children love apples, but they only eat a few of the apples on the tree because they prefer green apples!!
Also, the blackbirds love them, so I have to leave a few on the ground for them.
I'm going to make a few apple crumbles this autumn, the children don't mind what kind of apple it is if it's got plenty of sugar on it.
Wormella
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Gosh what a cheery police man...
“On the plus side it was a very colourful death.” said Garda Terry Ward, who was first to arrive at the scene. “There were red bags, blue bags, green bags, white bags, blue red and white bags, cotton bags, Lidl bags, bags for life, black Tesco bags and those old school stripy red and white bags from the eighties. It was quite a collection!”
Withnail
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That stuff is made with a sloe 'cordial', 'diluted' with gin - whilst there is nothing wrong with it per se, please don't get the impression that that is what sloe gin is like.
The real deal is s(l)o(e) much better, and worth a little work.
Also, and i cannot stress this quite enough, take heed of #67 for regret-free steepage.