Comments on: Blackberry season in the East End

By: Christina Martins

Christina Martins — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 09:28:39 +0000

This is a very inspiring blog post for a novice forager.

Living right by the Eco park along the Regent’s Canal between Mile End and Bow, I’d love to forage for sloes – any idea where these might be found locally? – I’m very novice you see… and newly moved to the area. Thanks so much!

By: nitasha

nitasha — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 20:20:12 +0000

hello – i really like your site…

thought you might like my post on blackberries and a good recipe for crumble.

http://galorelords.tumblr.com/post/992897650/when-brambles-turn-into-blackberries

By: betsy

betsy — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 09:20:48 +0000

the fattest juiciest blackberries i found this year were near muswell hill in a churchyard.. and there were tons of them….made jam and froze many, for my son, daughter-in-law and grandaughter….in order of picking height.

By: Rowena

Rowena — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:13:43 +0000

Sweetly inspiring post. I am going to go off and find some blackberries now by the towpath near where I live. But first I am going to make some sloe gin with the sloes I picked on the Isle of Wight the other day; would be good to find sloes in London. London sloes in London gin. Perhaps that could be a subject for another posting?

By: the gentle author

the gentle author — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:56:03 +0000

In reply to Frances. When I lived in New York, I once found blackberries growing in the wasteland on Rikers Island surrounding the gaol. Even though it is close to Manhattan it is surprisingly rural, although also rather sinister. Undoubtedly, a hidden corner!

By: Frances

Frances — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 01:23:58 +0000

Your blackberry post and the earlier comments really make me wish that there might some hidden corner of New York that I knew about … where I could head out to tomorrow morning, empty container in my hopeful hands.

Your photographs are so beautiful!

By: Chris F

Chris F — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:17:37 +0000

I recently made blackberry jam with last year’s harvest from the freezer (Had to make room for this year’s pickings) and for the last two nights we have feasted upon blackberry & apple crumble, last night with ice cream and tonight with custard. We both love your postings, they have become part of our daily ritual.

By: Jane wilson-marquis

Jane wilson-marquis — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:29:17 +0000

Love the cat and that you can still find wild blackberries in the East End

By: Susan

Susan — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:46:54 +0000

All I can say is wish I could have joined you — for the quiet tow path, the moorhens, the old church, the berry picking, but most of all for that blackberry crumble to come!

By: Joan

Joan — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 10:34:55 +0000

Been really disappointed that this year the berries are so small. Kept coming across stunted ones while youth hostelling in Suffolk last week. Guess its the general lack of rain at the right time. Have had to resort to buying supermarket berries!