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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2014 23:00:14 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2014 2:50:30 GMT
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Post by questa on Jun 30, 2014 4:54:00 GMT
Beautiful, Lizzy and well complemented by the colours and shapes of the tiles in the background.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2014 5:18:36 GMT
Thanks, questa. That is about 2 hours of worth of picking there. Small and scarce, those huckleberries are!
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Post by bjd on Jun 30, 2014 5:25:30 GMT
Those look like red currants to me. I have two bushes in my garden but they were ripen more than a month ago.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2014 5:39:47 GMT
No, these are wild red huckleberries. Quite puckery and very juicy. I can't wait to plant currants.
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Post by questa on Jun 30, 2014 6:23:40 GMT
So THAT'S what a huckleberry looks like
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Post by questa on Jun 30, 2014 6:25:02 GMT
I am learning so much about the northern hemisphere here.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2014 6:42:33 GMT
Mostly huckleberries are blue, questa, like blueberries. These are a wild variant. Do you have indigenous berries where you live? Or fruits?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2014 4:48:08 GMT
On the Gulf Coast we had blue huckleberries. I have never seen the red ones.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2014 5:53:21 GMT
I guess they're more West Coast. We have tons of the blue ones, far more than the red. But the red are far better.
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Post by questa on Jul 1, 2014 5:57:09 GMT
Lots of fruit and berry-like things that can be eaten...our aborigines lived off them for thousands of years. However they don't look like fruit as we know it and are an acquired taste. Some have become popular with the 'foodies' but as the plants don't do well in a commercial setting, people have to pick from the bush so it makes them expensive. We have many acacias and the different ones grind down to make various flours.
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Post by amboseli on Jul 12, 2014 16:09:07 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2014 16:26:36 GMT
They are much more similar to currants, amboseli, very juicy and tart. I didn't know there were huckleberries in Europe. Interesting!
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Post by amboseli on Jul 12, 2014 16:30:12 GMT
Well, I believe they are huckleberries. I had to look them up on wikipedia, and from what I saw they are similar to our blueberries. Or is this something different?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2014 16:35:33 GMT
The same difference, more or less. I think blueberries are the hybridized and commercial form, huckleberries are their wild forebears, but I could be wrong. They're all good, though.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2014 14:58:45 GMT
Figs are coming!
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Post by htmb on Aug 15, 2015 11:57:37 GMT
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Post by htmb on Aug 18, 2015 3:43:07 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2015 5:59:48 GMT
Dragon fruit is one of the best breakfast items in Vietnam. In the south, just about every house has about half a dozen dragon fruit trees in their front garden.
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Post by amboseli on Sept 13, 2015 11:48:54 GMT
An apple a day keeps the doctor away ... especially when it's from your own garden! free screen captureThe figs are doing great, too, but not yet ready to be picked. photo share
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Post by amboseli on Sept 20, 2015 16:55:49 GMT
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Post by amboseli on Feb 16, 2016 21:29:40 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 14, 2017 14:47:08 GMT
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Post by amboseli on Jul 17, 2017 18:32:34 GMT
Oh, those strawberries. I wish I had bought some today. The season for blackberries has started. We have seen a lot of them growing wild during our today's bikeride. We have picked a bag full.
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