Wild blueberries

[Cloudberry]

Hmmm... my aunt in Kotka says that there was frost during the flowering period of the blueberries which is why there's no blueberries. She has managed to pick 4ltrs of raspberries yesterday though! yummy!

[Rosamunda]

And we picked about one litre of chanterelles yesterday. Now I am back in Espoo so hope none of the locals will take the opportunity to invade my patch. Hung a few pike heads on the path up to the forest (my youngest caught a 103 cms pike in Pohja Bay last week, huge fish but it only weighed 6kgs).... good idea Hank.

[Kupcake]

And we picked about one litre of chanterelles yesterday. Now I am back in Espoo so hope none of the locals will take the opportunity to invade my patch. Hung a few pike heads on the path up to the forest (my youngest caught a 103 cms pike in Pohja Bay last week, huge fish but it only weighed 6kgs).... good idea Hank.

Speaking of chantarelles, how do you clean those little sods? Is there a special way, or does it just involve painstaking diligence? I always manage to miss a few tiny specks of grit, but my teeth find them when i'm chomping them down!

[enk]

Lots of wild blueberries (and raspberries) in the woods in Kilo. Not even my kids have managed to eat
them all

Found some chanterelles and koivunpunikkitatti there, too.

Nam

-enk

[Rosamunda]

And we picked about one litre of chanterelles yesterday. Now I am back in Espoo so hope none of the locals will take the opportunity to invade my patch. Hung a few pike heads on the path up to the forest (my youngest caught a 103 cms pike in Pohja Bay last week, huge fish but it only weighed 6kgs).... good idea Hank.

Speaking of chantarelles, how do you clean those little sods? Is there a special way, or does it just involve painstaking diligence? I always manage to miss a few tiny specks of grit, but my teeth find them when i'm chomping them down!

I have a soft 1" paint brush that I use to clean them. If they are really bad I might rinse them but it is best not too as they can get soggy. They shouldn't be too gritty though as they grow in peat/moss. I also cut the tip of the stalk off.

[Desundial]

I've been wondering around lots of different areas and have come across mestämarjaa and rasberries. Strawberries have been jummy, though not enough to fill a bucket. Rasberries are plentiful, but lots of dried up ones on the plants. Bluberries, ditto for me on the small and very spread out.

[Pursuivant]

yeah, have seen better years... we used to have a wicked good raspberry patch in the woods at an old sandpit, but then they clearcut the area and it dries up a lot faster... which then the swamp doesn't...

[raamv]

Hvittrask always have lots of blueberries..

[RA]

We've got blueberries in Kuopio, but there weren't many up in Suomusalmi, but we did okay for cloudberries there.