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Blackberry · Blackthorn
📍 32 East St, Alford LN13 9EL, UK
🗓 Season: July · August · September · October · November
🔍 When is it ripe?
Blackberry: Fully black (not red or dark red) and comes off the stem with no resistance — zero pull. Dull rather than shiny; a shiny black berry is still slightly underripe and tart. Eat the same day for best flavour.
Blackthorn: 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.
In the football club grounds, along the back hedge that runs behind the building there are loads of blackberry late summer and autumn.
There are also sloes (blackthorn) in the hedge of the field next door, it is a private farmers field but I have picked there many times with no problem. Obviously dont pick the farmers crops, just the hedge growing sloes.
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