Berry picking time!

[Fern]

Well, i saw someone else here wrote about picking up cans for recycling, so I guess i'll admit here that i've been picking berries (blackberries and raspberries) around my suburban neighborhood (not in people's yards). I walk nearly every night for excercise, and often bring an acrylic cup with me, which i can fill up with about a half cup of berries, plenty to put on my breakfast cereal in the morning!

Raspberries are very expensive in the store, and it's nice knowing they're organic, too.

There are many places where brambles like these grow wild. I also like to pick wild grapes; their sweet smell can often lead you to where they are. The skin is very bittger, the inside is sweet.

I've got apple trees in my yard, but they've always been too wormy to eat, and i don't like to spray pesticides, so i let the deer have them. I also have gooseberries, strawberries, blueberries and cherry in the garden, but mostly in quantities too small to really be good for more than an occasioanl snack.

[pennywise]

Kudo's to FERN for admitting her money saving frugal method!!!!!!! You go girl! I think you can spray your apple trees with dish soap water to rid the worms, also water them with dish soap water - this is an old trick. Use water that you will in milk jugs while you wait for the bath or shower water to warm that way you are not "wasting water".

Come on guys, fess up What are your money saving furgal methods so we all can learn?

[Max'sMommy]

Wow, great ideas from both of you- awesome tips!

[mjrube94]

There's a website, www.pickyourown.org that lists all the pick your own farms in every state. They also tell you when different fruits/veggies are in peak season, and have links to any of the farms that have their own website. While it's not free to pick your own, it's probably cheaper (and certainly better) than buying in a store. Plus it's a great, relatively inexpensive thing to do with the kids. We're going peach picking this weekend...

[Max'sMommy]

Cool, thanks- we are new to our area, and wanted to take our son before the end of Summer, so I will check out the site and see what is around, thanks again!

[karie]

Thanks for posting that website. ~Karie