DU Jam Sessions?

[Parche]

We could get all the DU'rs to make jam in their cities that they live in..

[DarkTirade]

1. Anybody know where I can get fresh blackberries?

I mean like smack-your-ass-when-you're-not-looking fresh. None of the kind you get in supermarkets.

[suninvited]

2. We grow blackberries here.

And I make jam and jelly every year. I also make jelly from plums, peaches and pear butter.

Sometimes the grey foxes get to the blackberries, but you cant get mad at them.

[DarkTirade]

4. We used to have blackberry and rasberry bushes behind our old house when I lived up here as a kid.

Every year we'd spend a day out picking them, and we'd have homemade rasberry and blackberry pie for the next couple days.

[suninvited]

5. Luckily we have thornless blackberrys

when I was a kid we had blackberrys, but they had thorns.

We picked at least a bushel a day, but we were covered in scratches.

Although raspberrys do not do well in Texas, we do have some here, but never enough to make jam, only enough to eat.

[DarkTirade]

6. These were well worth the scratches.

We didn't have a whole lot, hence only picking them once a year. Just a few bushes bordering the woods behind our house. But goddamn they were tasty.

[suninvited]

7. When I was a kid, I dont think thornless blackberries even existed

we had three rows (probably 20 yards long each) of blackberries, that came back every year with a vengeance.

We had so many blackberries, that we made cobblers, pies, jelly and preserves and still delivered baskets to our neighbors and relatives.

I did very well in school. My principal and superintendant lived across the street from us, and I had to carry over the baskets of fruits and vegetables to them every few days.

[DarkTirade]

9. I'm a bit jealous.

I've always loved blackberries. I'm hoping to find some way to use 'em in my brewing at some point. Maybe that'll be a good addition to my spring mead.

[suninvited]

10. Blackberry mead sounds delicious.

yummy. Let me know if you need some blackberries.

[DarkTirade]

11. Now that I've moved back to the area where I grew up, I should be able to find some somewhere.

[LeftyMom]

3. I can.

I can't garden to save my life, but stuff is real cheap at the farmer's markets here in late summer, so I put stuff up that way.

[Thurston Howell III]

8. Does nose jam or toe jam count?

[WCGreen]

12. COSTCO....

I wish they carried Rasberry Jam...