Sun warm strawberries.

I’m sitting here in front of the computer eating strawberries that my neighbours kids thought I should have 🙂 Yes I am spoiled 🙂 🙂 They had been to one of the many self picking places today because the season for strawberries is almost open and this was supposed to be the last weekend they were open. Still lots of berries left so they might open on Monday and Tuesday as well. Very few things are better than eating freshly picked sun warm strawberries 🙂

There used to grow an really hardy rose here but I guess someone must have killed it because there’s no sign of any growing there now.
The farmer grows a lot of oat in the fields this year, it’ll all become silage for the cows.

We were always out picking berries every summer and autumn when I grew up in the sixties and seventies. Only the strawberries were picked on a self picking farm, the rest we picked in the nature. I usually hated every second of it but as my mother said: If You want jam and Ade the rest of the year You’ll pick too 🙂 🙂 It wasn’t the picking I hated to be honest but the biting flies and mosquitoes, they made every day out there a living hell to be honest but I did want that jam so I picked 🙂 🙂 also the afterwork was a bit dull, to remove anything that wasn’t a berry, like leafs, insects and spiders 🙂 🙂

Today I can enjoy it, especially since we now have so few biting insects flying around. I do prefer to pick wild raspberries because of the hight the berries grow at 🙂 🙂 Also if I find some nice tasting Bog bilberries I’ll pick those too. Most of them gives bland tasting berries but some gives delicious ones and I know where those bushes grow 🙂 I think this summer is too dry even out at the bog though so we might get raspberries but I doubt we’ll get many bilberries.

It is cooler today but it feels much warmer indoors, I guess the cottage walls stored much of yesterdays heat and radiates it in to my home. Mostly cloudy and a cool wind is blowing and even reach in to my garden today. If the sun doesn’t dry out the ground the wind does, no chance on winning that I’m afraid 🙂 No need to water the vegetable garden today, I covered the ground with the grass clippings I got while mowing the lawn yesterday, That keeps the ground from drying up and when the grass decays it also fertilises the ground.

It was rather nice when we went out on our morning walk today, slightly cooler than yesterday and even though I couldn’t see any deer we did see two big wild hogs. They, unfortunately saw us too so I never had the chance to take any photos of them. Well it is time to make another pot of tea. I’ve already eaten all the strawberries so I guess I’ll have to have an ice cream instead 🙂

Have a great day!

6 responses to “Sun warm strawberries.”

  1. catsworking Avatar
    catsworking

    Absolutely stunning portrait of Sarah at the end, with the old wood and green leaves.

    When I was growing up in Massachusetts, I remember eating forbidden fruit all summer.

    The next-door neighbor had a Concord grape vine growing on the fence between our houses, so we would try those when they turned purple on our side of the fence.

    We knew where all the apple, pear, and plum trees were. And I think we’d also pick peaches.

    We’d pick blackberries from bushes we’d find on the side of the road.

    We never did anything with all this fruit except take it to eat on the spot.

    And one mean neighbor had the only raspberries. We’d wait until we thought they weren’t home to sneak into the yard and steal some. Sometimes we’d get caught and chased away.

    Eating so much fruit, it’s a wonder we didn’t always have diarrhea!

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    1. Christer. Avatar
      Christer.

      Hi catsworking!

      Sometimes she actually cooperates when she see the camera 🙂

      I was always too scared to pick any fruit in othe3r peoples gardens 🙂 Good thing we have our All mans right law some can pick any fruits and berries growing anywhere in the wild 🙂 Nowdays I’m lazy so I usually only pick what I eat when we’re out walking 🙂 🙂 I do sometimes pick wild raspberries though, they taste so much better than any garden variety and the jam made from them is delicious 🙂

      Yeah, the stomach problem that came after 🙂 🙂 🙂

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  2. carolannie1949 Avatar
    carolannie1949

    So much loveliness in your countryside!

    And yes, sun warm strawberries are the best! We have berries coming on here too: dewberries, thimbleberries and huckleberries in the woods, and at home raspberries, blueberries and marionberries (a type of blackberry). It’s cherry season, so there are a lot of those. Our Himalayan blackberries don’t ripen until August, there are those along the edges of the parks and of course everywhere, because they’re invasive pests.

    The weather here has been relatively cool and we are now getting very fine drizzle.It would be fog except the clouds are way above!

    Time to go out and gather the last peas.

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    1. Christer. Avatar
      Christer.

      Hi carolannie!

      You do have so many more raspberry relatives than we do but fortunately for us we can now but them both in gardencenters and online 🙂 I think the Himalayan blackberries now is considered a naturalised species here (easier than to call them invasive so they have together rid of them 🙂 🙂 ) and from what I remember they grew massive and it was easy to get stuck if the thorns caught me 🙂 🙂 🙂

      The first raindrops just arrived, I think it evaporated before it hit the ground but it is at least a start 🙂 I forgot to sow peas but the beans have just started to show buds 🙂

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  3. Beatrice Avatar
    Beatrice

    Christer, I have picked strawberries at anyplace other than our garden when we lived in VA. You are right in that they are so good and we had to make sure to pick them before the birds or squirrels found the ripe ones. It was nice of your neighbor’s children to share some with you.

    We had some cooler weather last week, but the heat will be returning this week starting on Tuesday. Unfortunately, we have not had a good rainstorm in a while and the water levels in the river are down, but those invasive plants keep on growing!

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    1. Christer. Avatar
      Christer.

      Hi Beatrice!

      Our squirrels are too shy to come this far from the forest but badgers and roe deer do their best to eat the berries as well. Birds ate all my red currants this year, it has been so dry that they need all the fluids they can get. They are usually left alone when we have normal cool and rainy summers.

      Still just as hot here but a cold front with heavy showers is approaching and I do hope we’ll get lots of rain. Thunder will most likely come as well they say.
      Yes invasive plants can manage any kind of weather it seems. Those are the only ones still looking good here 🙂 🙂

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