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rhysdad

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Very early blackberries?
« on: July 25, 2010, 13:33 »
Just pottering about in the back garden and noticed ripe blackberries already! I know some are going for a cold winter again in weather circles and it's probably wise to watch out for signs in nature but blumming heck.. If I'm right they are at least 3/4 weeks early aren't they?
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Re: Very early blackberries?
« Reply #1 on: July 25, 2010, 13:37 »
Some folks have the odd black ones already on our site and my Loch Ness ones are a deep red, and we're quite a bit north of you!
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Re: Very early blackberries?
« Reply #2 on: July 25, 2010, 13:37 »
They are early this year I've been eating the odd few here and there for 2 weeks 8)

It's all the warm weather we had  :)
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Re: Very early blackberries?
« Reply #3 on: July 25, 2010, 13:39 »
in one part of our garden (full sun all day every day) we've had ripe b'berries for the past week.. in the rest of the garden i think they are at least 2 / 3 weeks away.
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Re: Very early blackberries?
« Reply #4 on: July 25, 2010, 13:45 »
I posted this pick on 8th August last year, and we're not so very far away from that. The box bottom right has blackberries in it and we'd been picking for a little while before that.

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Re: Very early blackberries?
« Reply #5 on: July 25, 2010, 13:56 »
North Lincolnshire -- we have taken about a dozen well ripe ones off already, seems about 3 weeks early at least.
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Re: Very early blackberries?
« Reply #6 on: July 25, 2010, 18:28 »
We notice this today when we went for a drive ... all the hedge rows around here are full of them  :)
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Re: Very early blackberries?
« Reply #7 on: July 25, 2010, 19:27 »
We have quite  a lot of ripe ones around.

DD, I'd forgotten you had a little white cat that looks just like our Effie  :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Re: Very early blackberries?
« Reply #8 on: July 25, 2010, 19:32 »
Not so little now!

We've 3 white ones and two not so white.
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Re: Very early blackberries?
« Reply #9 on: July 25, 2010, 19:34 »
Effie has filled out rather around the middle  :lol: :lol: :lol:
We just have two at the meoment. Second one is the elderly, frail, grumpy tortoiseshell who sees off any dogs who come to the gate  :tongue2:
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