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Tsalagi:
Mushroom season is over and we're kicking the blackberry season in at high gear. We picked a bunch last weekend and got ten pounds of them today. I discovered knee-high snakeproof boots are the way to go with blackberry picking. We bought a pressure canner and my wife has really gotten into this canning thing. Which is great. Some people up the street have a pear tree and they won't eat them. We asked for them and they said take them all. So we did! We showed up with an extension fruit picker and stripped the tree clean except for about 10% we leave for the birds. We'll go next weekend and get more blackberries. We get these in Oak Creek Canyon, which is Highway 89 between here and Sedona.

NTD:
You might want to be careful Kevan, I think those berries are poisonous >:D
Sounds like you don't have to do much shopping at the grocery store there Kevan.  I'm gonna have to take you up on your offer this deer season just so I can get a taste of the wild at your dinner table. ;D

Justin Snyder:
That is great Kevan. Don't forget the prickly pear fruit.  We found a huge berry patch planted on the side of the highway in public access that we pick a lot of berries from. I finally went one step farther and talked to a land owner who let me plant a large area with thornless berries.

If you really want to do your wife a favor go get a steam canner. I only use my pressure canner for a few things that have to be pressured like meats. The steam canner works well for all of your fruits and jams and cuts the canning time and work significantly. I like the steam canner so much more that I bought a second one.

Thwackaddict:
Hey guys not meaning to butt in or anything but why you pressure canning or steaming em?When you cook the berries down you got plenty heat and the jars will seal themselves.Just fill em to an 1/8" from top lid and screw em down tight and flip em.When they cool you'll hear em popping if not they pop when you flip em back upright.Havent had one not seal yet.Much quicker and easier too.JMO

gstoneberg:
We always froze the blackberries, unless we were making jam.  For the jam we did what Randy suggested.  I do love blackberry cobbler.  I love the mushrooms too.  I haven't found either in Texas.

George

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