Just tried one at a neighbours who got them from the local veg shop.
Are they easy to grow?
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On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:15:14 +0100, mogga
wrote:

Just tried one at a neighbours who got them from the local veg shop.
Are they easy to grow?


Have found the seed here
http://www.chilternseeds.co.uk/chilt...s/pid/31513129
very acid soil required so means pots only I guess.
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In article ,
says...

Just tried one at a neighbours who got them from the local veg shop.
Are they easy to grow?

Whinberries. They grow wild here in Scotland (and other places) and
are very delicious in pies IME. However, the fruit are small and sparse,
there are not many on one plant; so it takes ages, across quite a wide
area, to gather enough for one pie. It was something we always did as a
family.

So, not really something to grow in the garden/allotment even if you
could replicate the conditions; but well worth picking to cook if you
happen to find some. (they are too acidic when raw).

Janet

In message ,
Janet writes
In article ,
says...

Just tried one at a neighbours who got them from the local veg shop.
Are they easy to grow?

Whinberries. They grow wild here in Scotland (and other places) and
are very delicious in pies IME. However, the fruit are small and sparse,
there are not many on one plant; so it takes ages, across quite a wide
area, to gather enough for one pie. It was something we always did as a
family.

So, not really something to grow in the garden/allotment even if you
could replicate the conditions; but well worth picking to cook if you
happen to find some. (they are too acidic when raw).

Bilberries are my favourite wild fruit - I don't find them too acidic,
and prefer them to blackberies and raspberries. They are a good excuse
for dawdling while walking the hills.
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Stewart Robert Hinsley

On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:31:05 +0100, Stewart Robert Hinsley
wrote:

In message ,
Janet writes
In article ,
says...

Just tried one at a neighbours who got them from the local veg shop.
Are they easy to grow?

Whinberries. They grow wild here in Scotland (and other places) and
are very delicious in pies IME. However, the fruit are small and sparse,
there are not many on one plant; so it takes ages, across quite a wide
area, to gather enough for one pie. It was something we always did as a
family.

So, not really something to grow in the garden/allotment even if you
could replicate the conditions; but well worth picking to cook if you
happen to find some. (they are too acidic when raw).

Bilberries are my favourite wild fruit - I don't find them too acidic,
and prefer them to blackberies and raspberries. They are a good excuse
for dawdling while walking the hills.

I agree! Love them and also know them as bilberries.
You'd be better growing blueberries, which are easy to grow, and more
productive, especially as new cultivars are developed. I picked just
over 1 pound off my one bush a few days ago and there are at least as
many again ripening.

Pam in Bristol

On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:54:53 +0100, Jake
wrote:

On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:56:01 +0100, Janet wrote:

In article ,
says...

Just tried one at a neighbours who got them from the local veg shop.
Are they easy to grow?

Whinberries. They grow wild here in Scotland (and other places) and
are very delicious in pies IME. However, the fruit are small and sparse,
there are not many on one plant; so it takes ages, across quite a wide
area, to gather enough for one pie. It was something we always did as a
family.

So, not really something to grow in the garden/allotment even if you
could replicate the conditions; but well worth picking to cook if you
happen to find some. (they are too acidic when raw).

Janet

On family trips watch out for "lots of wimberries that have fallen
off the plants". I've known children to return with bowls full of
...... (hint - the plants they fell off go "baaa"!)

In our "secret" South Wales location you can fill a large bowl easily
in a small area as long as someone else hasn't got there first. We
fill several bowls on a trip and then bag and freeze the berries -
they freeze very well - in pie sized amounts.

We like them raw too but now avoid eating as we pick because of the
staining of lips etc.!

Jake

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I know a good "secret" S. Wales location good for
bilberries/whinberries. Wonder if it's the same place!


Pam in Bristol

On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:56:54 +0100, Pam Moore
wrote:


I know a good "secret" S. Wales location good for
bilberries/whinberries. Wonder if it's the same place!


Pam in Bristol

Now that is something we'll both have to keep on wondering. Next time
we go picking I'll wear a t-shirt with "ARE YOU PAM?" printed on it
and will leave it to you to make a secret approach if you want to ;-))

Jake

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Jake wrote:
[...]

On family trips watch out for "lots of wimberries that have fallen
off the plants". [...]

OT Old pedant/ Sad, the death of terminal "n" in English, innit?
"Shame Warm bowlim evum betterum before lunch", knowhymean? The plague's
moved on to "-nd" now, too: chap at the bank was helpfully telling
people in the queue to go to the M1...¿Qué?...Oh, the /end one/! /OT
Old pedant

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Mike.

On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:59:36 +0100, "Mike Lyle"
wrote:

Jake wrote:
[...]

On family trips watch out for "lots of wimberries that have fallen
off the plants". [...]

OT Old pedant/ Sad, the death of terminal "n" in English, innit?
"Shame Warm bowlim evum betterum before lunch", knowhymean? The plague's
moved on to "-nd" now, too: chap at the bank was helpfully telling
people in the queue to go to the M1...¿Qué?...Oh, the /end one/! /OT
Old pedant

I apologise, having realised only now that I mis-spelt something. The
quoted text should have read "fallen ORF the plants" and, indeed, the
period (American) or full stop (English) should have preceded the
closing double inverted commas.

I also left out a comma in an earlier post and, whilst I cannot
remember, now, which one that was, I unreservedly apologise for that
omission.

I shall wear sackcloth and eat ashes for at least two seconds in
penance (which is nowhere near Cornwall).

Jake

http://www.rivendell.org.uk coming soon

On 28/07/2010 21:51, Jake wrote:

I apologise, having realised only now that I mis-spelt something. The
quoted text should have read "fallen ORF the plants" and, indeed, the
period (American) or full stop (English) should have preceded the
closing double inverted commas.

I also left out a comma in an earlier post and, whilst I cannot
remember, now, which one that was, I unreservedly apologise for that
omission.

I shall wear sackcloth and eat ashes for at least two seconds in
penance (which is nowhere near Cornwall).

Jake

And to my shame I have to admit to realising I'd put an apostrophe in
the wrong place in at least one of my posts.
Jill

Jill Bell wrote:
On 28/07/2010 21:51, Jake wrote:

I apologise, having realised only now that I mis-spelt something. The
quoted text should have read "fallen ORF the plants" and, indeed, the
period (American) or full stop (English) should have preceded the
closing double inverted commas.

I also left out a comma in an earlier post and, whilst I cannot
remember, now, which one that was, I unreservedly apologise for that
omission.

I shall wear sackcloth and eat ashes for at least two seconds in
penance (which is nowhere near Cornwall).

Jake

And to my shame I have to admit to realising I'd put an apostrophe in
the wrong place in at least one of my posts.
Jill

Egad, youngsters today! I blame Gladstone.

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Mike.

On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:28:05 +0100, "Mike Lyle"
wrote:

Jill Bell wrote:
On 28/07/2010 21:51, Jake wrote:

I apologise, having realised only now that I mis-spelt something. The
quoted text should have read "fallen ORF the plants" and, indeed, the
period (American) or full stop (English) should have preceded the
closing double inverted commas.

I also left out a comma in an earlier post and, whilst I cannot
remember, now, which one that was, I unreservedly apologise for that
omission.

I shall wear sackcloth and eat ashes for at least two seconds in
penance (which is nowhere near Cornwall).

Jake

And to my shame I have to admit to realising I'd put an apostrophe in
the wrong place in at least one of my posts.
Jill

Egad, youngsters today! I blame Gladstone.


Ooooh, you flaterer! It's been a long time since I've been referred to
as young. I think the last time was just before the Queen's coronation
(the Queen before they started televising them).

The deliberate mistake (and the possible second, depending on your
interpretatiion of the need for luggage at the commencement) I leave
for your discovery and concomitant entertainment.

;-))

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