are very much a feature of early Autumn here
So your blackberrfies ripen in fall as the Danish ones do? In the US it seems to be in July - at least those I knew as a teenager. I am wondering if it is the cooler climates (NZ and DK) or whether it is the type of blackberry?
Of course the Danish climate is warming up - there is no doubt whatsoever on that point! Today it was 33C (about 88F) by my clock-thermometer outdoors in the shade. And last year it was also very hot and the blackberries - for the first time in my experience - were ripe on August 15th.
Today I was suffering from heat prostration, sort of, and yet I dug and dug in that horrible gravel, both filling gravel in plastic bags and digging up more weeds in the gravel. My oldest granddaughter is going to drive me to the recycling place tomorrow, so I was very very busy today. Nice!
Carol
I guess because I was put out in the sun at about one month of age that I am quite happy in it. No hat and only liquids coffee with milk. Should have been rum and cola!
Carol
Carol Jensen wrote:
> So your blackberrfies ripen in fall as the Danish ones do? In the US it seems to be in July - at least those I knew as a teenager. I am wondering if it is the cooler climates (NZ and DK) or whether it is the type of blackberry?
Carol I suspect it is largel the type of blackberry, as all we have here
came originally from Europe, though certainly the cooler climate could
play a part too.. The plants do extremely well here anyhow and have
become quite a pest in the wild in some areas forming gigantic thickets
in native bush where they are most unwelcome.
> Of course the Danish climate is warming up - there is no doubt whatsoever on that point! Today it was 33C (about 88F) by my clock-thermometer outdoors in the shade. And last year it was also very hot and the blackberries - for the first time in my experience - were ripe on August 15th.
Well, it certainly sounds as though temperature plays some part in
early ripening.
> Today I was suffering from heat prostration, sort of, and yet I dug and dug in that horrible gravel, both filling gravel in plastic bags and digging up more weeds in the gravel. My oldest granddaughter is going to drive me to the recycling place tomorrow, so I was very very busy today. Nice!
I hope you are wearing a shady hat and drinking plenty of fluids.
Heatstroke if it happens is most unpleasent. I suffered it once as child
and ran a very high temerature and shivered and shook violently for a
fair part of a night in spite of the ministrations of my (trained nurse)
mother.
Moira
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Tony & Moira Ryan,
Wainuiomata, North Island, NZ, "two and a bit" islands surrounded
by water in all directions - 5000 miles to Chile to the east,
Australia 1500 miles NW, South Africa 6000 miles to the west.
> Of course the Danish climate is warming up - there is no doubt
whatsoever on that point! Today it was 33C (about 88F) by my
clock-thermometer outdoors in the shade. And last year it was also very hot
and the blackberries - for the first time in my experience - were ripe on
August 15th.
You lucky hot weather people. Our blackberries only start ripening mid
September and are at their most plentifull in October.
John
Okay, John, that is you up on the mountain. How about the rest of the Irish - when do your blackberries ripen, and do you notice that it is earlier these years - last year at least.
Carol
