They're here!!!
Blackberries season is in full swing. I've been watching the plants since spring.....waiting patiently for berries...well, not really patiently. But their finally here and its time to pick!! This year the berries are really huge. Seems that the tons of rain we've had has made for very happy blackberry plants. Of course, harvesting them is not always as easy thing. Here, blackberries have close neighbors with sharp pointy things on them otherwise know as stickers. Now these stickers probably all have different botanical names, but we just lump them all into the category of #$*%$ stickers. Here's an example: these stickers grab you and won't let go. If they grab your hair, forget it. You might as well break out the scissors.
These stickers are like security guards for the blackberries. They generally grow longer than the branches of the blackberry bushes, so you have to get past these little devils before you get to the good stuff. That's where the weaponry comes in.....branch cutters!
So we cleared the stickers and got to the good stuff.
Like any good blackberry pickin' Tarheel fan.......we used the appropriate collection buckets
Was a great day-minus a few sticker injuries. The end result was definitely worth a few poke holes!!!
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