... 0 Harvest soft fruit as it ripens, for example raspberries, blackberries and loganberries. Once fruiting has finished, prune the old shoots and train the new growth onto the supporting framework. Now that the evenings are drawing in and frosts are approaching ...

... Poetry readings on Sunday Blackberry-picking Late August, given heavy rain and sun For a full week, the blackberries would ripen. At first, just one, a glossy purple clot Among others, red, green, hard as a knot. You ate that first one and its flesh was ...

... lives on as plant bows to progress AGENERATION ago the summers around here were synonymous with the picking of gallons of blackberries. A nice bit of money could be earned by a good picker and a night at the pictures or in the bumpers, Beatle boots and ...

... but buyers are making no comment. Listowel Livestock Market Weanling Show and sale will be held on Wednesday August 31st. BLACKBERRIES are now edible and a popular fruit with most people. No need to worry about spurious talk of rip off Ireland when you can ...

... the season of plenty, it's a pity that the restaurant didn't make more use is not made of the wild fruits that abound. The blackberry crop seems to be particularly good this year, and I have started to stock up my freezer with this most delicious fruit. ...

... hour, a stroll in the right places should give you enough for a hearty breakfast. What looks like being a bumper crop of blackberries, a sign of a bad winter to come according to some, are ripening nicely on the brambles. Stock up your freezer with them ...

... nominations before 23rd September to 021 4964 366. FULL MOON is on 18th September, the weather is mild with good growth and the blackberries are lovely and juicy now, except the berries that have a fungus which are inedible, the apple, haws, wild plums, rose hip ...

... Bishop Court, Newcastle West at 2.30 p - . The six-mile return trip to Ardaghis almost wholly along the old railway where blackberries should be in abun. dance. From Ardagh Station a short road journey leads to the site where the Ardagh Chalice was found ...

... fruit juices and fruit concentrates which were mainly sold to manufacturers of jams, sweets. Children brought buckets of blackberries to the factory and many bought school books with the money they made and of course some sweets. But life moved on. In its ...

... left us, the sloe is getting ripe, in places a high proportion of sloes have shrivelled up and look like raisins, good blackberries are very scarce now, everyone is appreciative of the recent fine weather , long may it continue. When we hear of the d ...

... demolished to make way for new houses, all school children of the 1950. s remember the pocket money they earned picking blackberries for the plant, some in comfortable positions now recall the various methods they used to add weight to their pickings to ...