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[Senior Sea Kayaker]

2 hours ago, rotuts said:

@Senior Sea Kayaker

 

nice haul.

 

how can you find apples in Aug ?

 

did thy winter over ?  probably not.

 

This area is rampant with old apple trees, many planted many decades ago and some older, as well as crab apples and old varietals that I can't identify . I can easily pick a few Kg. on a walk through the old back pasture areas.

I'm unclear what you mean by 'winter over'. Apples on the trees fall, ferment, provide winter fodder for the deer , and get the deer drunk, or rot.

 

 

[rotuts]

@Senior Sea Kayaker

 

my apologies .  I was was thinking of something completely different.

[Smithy]

My neighbor, who runs a small backyard farm and sells at the local farmers' market, went camping for the weekend. Her raspberries are coming ripe, and she graciously invited me and another neighbor to come pick the ripe ones rather than letting them fall to the ground. The other neighbor was busy, so I picked 2 buckets' worth -- one for me and one for her.

 

 

They aren't as sweet or tart as I'd expected. Is my sense of taste going off? Maybe, since I've been battling a cold and a general loss of appetite.

 

But...today, I tested my own backyard's wild rasberries.

 

 

There's no comparison. 

 

 

I'm torn between selfish relief that it isn't me, and sorrow that my neighbor's farmed berries just aren't good this year. I don't plan to tell her.