Berries!
Posted in Outings and Adventures on August 10th, 2009 by rmd – Be the first to comment
They were perfect this year. Plump and sweet and tart.
I was expecting to get scratched and overheated like last year, when we struggled to fill three boxes because the canes were so picked over by birds and people. But once again the cool June favors the garden and the bushes were full of with fruit.
Underwood Family Farms charges $5 admission. Berries were $3/lb. We picked just under 10 lbs. Figure a pint of berries costs $3-4 at the farmers market or in a grocery store — we got a good deal.
Still, I hate paying someone else for the privilege of picking. But raspberries don’t do well in the wild here and we missed blackberry (evil invasive staining weed) season.
Here’s what 10 lbs. of raspberries and 3 lbs. of strawberries looks like.
