red and black

another color block picture, red and black this time.

this one is from last year, I was just thinking that the weather is too gray at the moment to go to pick-your-own. but we'll probably go there soon anyway - Timur likes jelly and so far blackberry jelly's his favorite.

He decided to try something new a few weeks back and asked to make orange jelly in orange skins - the idea picked from Canaries, where they had lemon and orange sorbet this way. To my surprise, jelly did set (somehow I was sure some weird chemical reaction will prevent setting), but it wasn't great success. so I figure we should go back to old favorite.

problem solved

Problem (if you can call it that) with Graces farm not doing pick-your-own this year was solved today. via this map http://www.pickyourown.info/map.htm#/?i=2 another farm was located nearby - Sunclose farm on Butt Lane in Milton. they do strawberries, and although not much is left of the current crop, there are lot more lines with plants raised waist-high (should be easy to pick) - and these are still green. Young lady at the shop said that they'll have strawberries till august and expect to start PYO raspberries in a week.