I don't need anymore jams but I will probably make apple butter and pear butter just to do it. I want to dry alot of apple slices and make spiced cinnamon apple rings and spiced pears. I also came across a recipe for spiced crabapples.
I usually take Brandy for her walk about a mile and a half from here. There are monstrous athletic fields with trails through the bordering woods. It is there that I found all my black raspberries (quarts and quarts) and wild grapes. And the wild crabapple. Also I discovered hackberries and one other fruit tree I am working on identifying. I read a quote today that said, "90% of yellow and white berries are poisonous, 90% of blue or black are not, and with red it is 50-50. This is a tree with black fruit like small cherries clustered tightly together. It could be choke cherry I suppose, but then I have to wonder what I was seeing just a few weeks ago in the same area. Those could have been a wild cherry(quite bitter) and these could be choke cherries.
Guess what? It's a choke cherry! I just found it online. I'll have to go back and find a small twig with leaves from the "other" tree and compare that with pictures online.
There is one other tree I am interested in. It reminds me of the Russian olive trees from New Mexico. It is even putting out what look like olives. I understand that they are edible, kind of sweet, but mealy. We'll see. It is an invasive plant but I do love the sweet fragrance of its spring blooms.I'll take pictures tomorrow and see if anyone knows what they are.
All this to say that I am driving myself crazy trying to keep up with getting everything done. I need children!
I usually take Brandy for her walk about a mile and a half from here. There are monstrous athletic fields with trails through the bordering woods. It is there that I found all my black raspberries (quarts and quarts) and wild grapes. And the wild crabapple. Also I discovered hackberries and one other fruit tree I am working on identifying. I read a quote today that said, "90% of yellow and white berries are poisonous, 90% of blue or black are not, and with red it is 50-50. This is a tree with black fruit like small cherries clustered tightly together. It could be choke cherry I suppose, but then I have to wonder what I was seeing just a few weeks ago in the same area. Those could have been a wild cherry(quite bitter) and these could be choke cherries.
Guess what? It's a choke cherry! I just found it online. I'll have to go back and find a small twig with leaves from the "other" tree and compare that with pictures online.
There is one other tree I am interested in. It reminds me of the Russian olive trees from New Mexico. It is even putting out what look like olives. I understand that they are edible, kind of sweet, but mealy. We'll see. It is an invasive plant but I do love the sweet fragrance of its spring blooms.I'll take pictures tomorrow and see if anyone knows what they are.
All this to say that I am driving myself crazy trying to keep up with getting everything done. I need children!
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