Blackberries

After getting three baskets of peaches last weekend we have been doing a lot of canning.

We made a batch of jam and then canned the rest of them.  It took some time.

This weekend blackberries were ripe for picking so we went to pick some of those.

 

 

 Here are some of the berries

 At first we had some trouble finding berries.  A lot of the rows were picked over already.

 Plus some people would eat the berries as soon as they were picked (Blueberries for Sal style).

 But eventually we found some good berries and picked a bunch

 John really wanted to eat them as they were being picked

 Matthew and his berries

 Lots of berries

When we got them all home some of them were already beginning to smell a bit overripe.

We made jam with about half of them and froze the other half.  The jam didn't turn out as well as the peach jam or raspberry jam (the blackberries may have been too ripe), but it was still good.

Here is our peach jam.  Mmmmm, those were some tasty peaches and the jam turned out really good.

We're enjoying being so close to all kinds of fresh produce