Agathe and Constance in the Blackberry Patch
A prickly seat
The (naturalised Himalayan) blackberries seem really early this year!
Huge and delicious
and plentiful…
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Out of Reach
The first law of blackberry-picking is that the biggest, juiciest ones are always just out of reach…
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close enough
luckily there were plenty of nearby ones…
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Four Liters
The girls helped to pick four litres of blackberries in less than an hour!
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Definitely enormous
And Agathe thinks she found the biggest one of them all…
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The Blackberry Giant!
so they measured it!
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Quimper Hittys 
Yum. What a feast. Do they have plans for jam or similar?
Generally we freeze them in two-cup lots, then all winter they are made into crumbles and berry sauce…m-m-m-m
Yummy! Our western Washington blackberries are ripening too. We always pick enough to make several pies over the winter. The Bonsai Hittys don’t help much, because they don’t like the thorns. They are fearful that the thorns will scratch them and/or the juice will stain their dresses!
Luckily the Quimper Hittys live in a household with a person who has a phD in Mending!
I love that basket. I wish I know how to make those so I could try a Hitty sized one like that.
I love that basket too! I found it at a rummage sale, it is perfect for carrying Hittys!
hmmm, the Country HIttys reminded me that last year when we started out to the South field to pick wild black berries we were chased out of the patch by a skunk family. a very irate mama and her small ones. We did
avoid annoying her to the point of unleashing her weapon on us. It was a VERY rapid retreat by me, Major the
German Shepherd and the 2 Hittys. At that point we decided to just buy our black berries!
We are pleased that your blackberry patch is not inhabited by unfriendly mammals! And we love the pictures of
the girls and the berries. Enjoy your harvest!
No Skunks on Vancouver Island! How lucky that the chemical weapon was avoided, but too bad you had to buy the blackberries!
We love blackberries!