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Blackthorn
📍 Greaves Ln, Sheffield S6, UK
🗓 Season: September · October · November
🔍 When is it ripe?
Sloe berries: small, round, blue-black with a heavy bloom. Intensely astringent raw — traditionally harvested after the first frost, which breaks down tannins. Best used for sloe gin or jelly. Spiny branches — wear gloves when harvesting.
Sloe berries. Bush is on your right at gate to field as you head west up Greaves lane. There are also bushes other side of gate but not easy to pick. Through gate is private livestock field sloping down towards river Loxley. Lots of fruit visible although mostly high up or out of reach from lane side. 350g of ripe fruit gathered prior to writing, enough for a litre of Sloe vodka. Would need owners permission and a ladder to get much more...
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