[The Lint Mill]

Does anyone know a good source for picking so I can do bramble jelly?

Thanks  Colin

[robert waddell]

bramble bushes would be a good start      maybe south lanarkshire is not a bramble area   is it not a bit early for them   i have not seen any on the bushes round here

[Fleecewife]

I haven't found anywhere round here Colin where decent brambles grow, so we have a patch in our garden of cultivated ones.  At the moment they have gone rampant and will have to be attacked in the winter and tamed - they have even started appearing in the tunnel.   You are welcome to some rooted runners if you want to start your own patch.......especially if you dig them up yourself     I know you would be able to keep them under control so much better than I can - because I can't 
 
For large quantities I pick them when I am down south, just before the journey home, then boil them up as soon as I get home. They don't travel well but as long as you process them that day they are fine.  I did have one batch which had started to ferment by the time I got them home and I made 'tipsy bramble jam' which was particularly delicious 

[bloomer]

tesco had some nice ones this week they are going in tomorrows crumble 

[doganjo]

They're not ready yet here - I've got loads coming through under the fence from the railway line. 

[mab]

If you fancy a holiday I've got about 12 acres  - not counting the ones I've sprayed with weedkiller - they're just starting to come ripe here - collected a bowlful yesterday.

[The Lint Mill]

Thank You everybody, I will contact you fleecewife (email sent..)

Special thanks to Robert for the bramble bush reply,  would never have thought.....

[Beewyched]

Ours are just starting to ripen - hopefully the birds will leave us some & the rain won't make them go mouldy - as per last year 

[Ina]

There's a handful on those in my garden - and no, you can't have them - I'm waiting to get enough at least for breakfast! 

I've no idea what type they are - they were here when I moved in - but I suppose they should be ripening now around here in the wild, too. And we are more northern than you.

[Beewyched]

Oh meaney 
Believe it or not, I think you've had better weather than us up there over the past week or so     I've got loads of unripe ones in the hedge, but only a handful of ripening ones - I'm having nightmares about the weather at the moment - dreamt last night that we were going to get a tornado & snow next week 

[Ina]

Weeeelllll - heavy rain forecast for tomorrow afternoon.... But no mention of snow as yet!

[Beewyched]

Weeeelllll - heavy rain forecast for tomorrow afternoon.... But no mention of snow as yet!

Will be watching the Countryfile forcast closely this evening 

[Lesley Silvester]

Weeeelllll - heavy rain forecast for tomorrow afternoon.... But no mention of snow as yet!

DON'T use the 's' word.  It brings me out in the shivers.   

[Ina]

The heavy rain hasn't materialised (yet). And I'll avoid the S-word in future....

[robert waddell]

well we are getting your rain