Berry seasonnn!
Summer and autumn are berry picking seasons. One after another, berries take turns to be in season, so you can pretty much end up picking berries continuously for a few months starting from end of july till now.
Multebaer (cloudberry) comes first,
followed by Blaabaer (blueberry),
Rips (redcurrent) and finally Tyttebaer (lingonberry)
If you'd recall, we've covered Multebaer and Blaabaer previously, so now's Rips and Tyttebaer's turn.
Every Saturday Unni and I head down to the local shop to get the groceries. Thing about living in a small place, there are no rules. Which means that you can ask the shop owner to leave stuff outside the door for you to collect after hours, get stuff and pay later, buy half a block of cheese, and pick as many rips you want from behind the shop. The rips trees were located behind the shop. I went ahead and started first while Unni went on with the grocery shopping. I got to the back of the shop and it was berry heaven I tell ya. Rips were everywhere!!
Unni and I picked and picked and picked, 2 buckets full and the rips on the trees still looked as much!
Well as usual, after berry picking, it’s time to berry sort… *YAWNNNNN*
After an hour and a half of sorting. It was done! *YAY*
It’s tyttbaer season now. So the other weekend, Unni, Bcc and I head to the mountains to pick tyttebaer. Tyttbaer grows close to the ground in clumps, and coupled with some of the ground turning red coz of the changing seasons, it was difficult to spot them.
And as usual, the thing with picking berries in the wild, there’s always the pretend-berry nearby.
bogus berry on the right. Tyttebaer on the left. It's a much darker red with green leaves.
At the end of 2 hours, we hadn’t picked much. Maybe it’s coz bcc and I kept getting distracted with some surprise blueberries we found still growing in the area. So not really focused with the picking.
At the end of the day, we pick this much only.
That’s after 2 hours of work, with the 3 of us. I think we should have just gone to the shop to buy the berries, coz they sell it for KR39 (SGD10) per kg there.
But then again, freshly picked berries are a different class of berries altogether okayyyyyyy!
Multebaer (cloudberry) comes first,
followed by Blaabaer (blueberry),
Rips (redcurrent) and finally Tyttebaer (lingonberry)
If you'd recall, we've covered Multebaer and Blaabaer previously, so now's Rips and Tyttebaer's turn.
Every Saturday Unni and I head down to the local shop to get the groceries. Thing about living in a small place, there are no rules. Which means that you can ask the shop owner to leave stuff outside the door for you to collect after hours, get stuff and pay later, buy half a block of cheese, and pick as many rips you want from behind the shop. The rips trees were located behind the shop. I went ahead and started first while Unni went on with the grocery shopping. I got to the back of the shop and it was berry heaven I tell ya. Rips were everywhere!!
Unni and I picked and picked and picked, 2 buckets full and the rips on the trees still looked as much!
Well as usual, after berry picking, it’s time to berry sort… *YAWNNNNN*
After an hour and a half of sorting. It was done! *YAY*
It’s tyttbaer season now. So the other weekend, Unni, Bcc and I head to the mountains to pick tyttebaer. Tyttbaer grows close to the ground in clumps, and coupled with some of the ground turning red coz of the changing seasons, it was difficult to spot them.
And as usual, the thing with picking berries in the wild, there’s always the pretend-berry nearby.
bogus berry on the right. Tyttebaer on the left. It's a much darker red with green leaves.At the end of 2 hours, we hadn’t picked much. Maybe it’s coz bcc and I kept getting distracted with some surprise blueberries we found still growing in the area. So not really focused with the picking.
At the end of the day, we pick this much only.
That’s after 2 hours of work, with the 3 of us. I think we should have just gone to the shop to buy the berries, coz they sell it for KR39 (SGD10) per kg there.But then again, freshly picked berries are a different class of berries altogether okayyyyyyy!
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