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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: tizaala on October 23, 2012, 08:09:48 am

Title: No sloes this year
Post by: tizaala on October 23, 2012, 08:09:48 am: Normally we are inundated with the sloe crop round here , but this year not a single sloe to be seen , must be the too much rain.
Title: Re: No sloes this year
Post by: kumquat on October 23, 2012, 08:28:16 am: Same here.... :(
for us, march was cold and dry and April (onwards) it pi**ed it down. We've had a glut of blackberries so i'm trying blackberry vodka for a change, i'm hoping it turns out ok
Title: Re: No sloes this year
Post by: Greenerlife on October 23, 2012, 08:45:31 am: None down here in Surrey either. I have a glut of raspberries and blackberries though, si am also making fruit vodka! :excited:
Title: Re: No sloes this year
Post by: Fowgill Farm on October 23, 2012, 09:47:47 am: No sloes here in North Yorkshire they all frosted off in May alonf with the apples but loads of rosehips and some very late elderberries.
Mandy :pig:
Title: Re: No sloes this year
Post by: Dans on October 23, 2012, 10:05:36 am: I saw a few rotten on bushes a few weekends back, but you really had to search for them. Was looking forward to sloe gin this year :-(

Dans
Title: Re: No sloes this year
Post by: hughesy on October 23, 2012, 11:16:39 am: Very few round here too. Reasonable amount of late blackberries around now though.
Title: Re: No sloes this year
Post by: Sylvia on October 23, 2012, 11:58:48 am: I've got loads if anyone wants them :)
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Post by: RUSTYME on October 23, 2012, 12:16:13 pm: Not nnticed any here either , but i don't drink so never bother with them anyway.
Blackberries are very small and hard , there were plenty of rowan berries and rose hips though , but no damsons , plenty of elderberries . Strange year .
Title: Re: No sloes this year
Post by: CaroleBulmer on October 23, 2012, 01:59:19 pm: No sloes in South Somerset either and freinds in Dorset report they cant find any either.
Title: Re: No sloes this year
Post by: luckylady on October 23, 2012, 03:08:20 pm: Nope, none here near York either. Rowans and rosehips aplenty though - really must get round to making that jelly before its too late.
Title: Re: No sloes this year
Post by: Dans on October 23, 2012, 03:11:58 pm: Quote from: Sylvia on October 23, 2012, 11:58:48 am
I've got loads if anyone wants them :)

Where are you Slyvia?

Dans
Title: Re: No sloes this year
Post by: Welshcob on October 23, 2012, 03:41:35 pm: Quote from: Dans on October 23, 2012, 03:11:58 pm
Quote from: Sylvia on October 23, 2012, 11:58:48 am
I've got loads if anyone wants them :)

Where are you Slyvia?

Dans

Yes please Sylvia send us some!! My OH is killing me with walks out in the country to find sloes, but there's no trace of any! :raining:
Title: Re: No sloes this year
Post by: anderso on October 23, 2012, 09:20:40 pm: we have sloes hiding around the fields not as many as past years but enough and along with the late blackberries things will be good - I only drink water and teas due to the medications but the berries = good presents for family and friends - we are on the Gloucestershire Wiltshire border - near a very good flour mill.
Title: Re: No sloes this year
Post by: WannabeLandOwner on October 26, 2012, 05:21:06 pm: Collected 6lb of them yesterday and have now got my sloe vodka (dont like gin) on its way for christmas, must be the sun in Essex ;D
Title: Re: No sloes this year
Post by: Moleskins on October 26, 2012, 07:25:37 pm: Well I've got 6 bottles worth of Sloe Gin on the go, my sloes were very sparse but from a good year we had a load in the freezer.
Does anyone know why the call is Sloe Gin - mine always seems to go quite quickly.
Title: Re: No sloes this year
Post by: Sylvia on October 27, 2012, 08:52:33 am: I'm in South Devon, near Newton Abbot. I can start picking for you both if you like. Looking out of my caravan window I can see, all in a row, sloes, hawthorn berries, rosehips, blackberries and spindle berries. Perfick!!!! :)