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Blackberries!

Out at just before 7am, I picked our first 2.105 lbs of these big guys and that didn’t even begin to touch what is still ripening out there. They are sweet-tart, just the way I like them. I see blackberry cobbler in our near future.

I’ve had to water a couple of times and if we don’t get some rain in the next couple of days I’ll water again. The netting seems to be doing the trick, now if I could keep the Japanese Beetles off of the leaves. With the netting, I found that pulling it away from the vines at the bottom and weighing it down with scrap lumber keeps the netting away from the berries except at the very top. Even those didnt’ seem to be picked at by the birds. Perhaps the netting confuses them and keeps them off the vines altogether. Its probably a 45 degree angle from the top of the row to where the netting meets the ground. As a control I left the row of Thorn Free plants for the birds. The berries are still on the vines but they are picked clean. There are only three of the Thorn Free vines, they are very small and not doing well. I’ll remove them next spring and replace with Black Satin more than likely.

I had a couple of berries with white sections. I think they are called drupelets? Not sure why but there were only a couple of berries that had them.

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Fruit Cobbler

1/4-1/2 Cup Butter
1 Cup Milk
1 Cup All Purpose Flour
1 Cup Sugar
1 1/2 Tsp Baking Powder
1/2 Tsp Salt
3 Cup Fruit (or more)

Melt butter in casserole dish. Stir together milk, flour, baking powder, salt and sugar. Pour on top of melted butter. Do not stir. Pour fruit on top of batter. Do not stir. Bake at 350 for 30 minutes or till golden. For a thinner cobbler use a larger dish and the 1/2 butter. For a thicker cobbler use a 9″x9″ pan and only 1/4 cup of butter.

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Sausage and beans, another row of beans and blackberries under wraps.

I planted a row of TopCrop bush beans and harvested one row of Roma IIs today. They were a little large so I made some beans and sausage for lunch. I like this recipe when I’ve let the beans get a little too mature for steaming or stir fry. Basically you clean and snap enough beans for the meal and place them in a pressure cooker with about 1 cup of water. Add 2 sliced sausage links and one sliced hot sausage link (we use beef but pork is fine). The links are the ones that are about the size of large hotdogs. Put the lid on the PC, bring it up to pressure and cook for 5 mintutes. Take it off the heat, let it cool down so you can get the lid off and serve. The pressure forces the meat juices into the beans and even the larger beans are very tender. mmmm

The blackberries are ripening and had to be covered as the birds were NOT going to leave us any if we didn’t. Those birds just don’t get the meaning of sharing. This is the first year for blackberries here as these vines were just planted last year.