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Blackthorn
📍 Daventy depot, Kilsby, Northampton CV23 1AJ, 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.
Lots of sloe berries around this park at the end of October, definitely enough for multiple people to pick them and make a few bottles of sloe gin each.
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