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Old 07-20-2018, 11:49 AM
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Default Saskatoon berries are ready

nice too get 6 cups in a couple hours

Saskatoon's are ready out here

still may be a second crop as not all are ready

lots of mosquito's though

along the river


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Old 07-20-2018, 11:52 AM
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We have a Saskatoon bush in the back yard
Picked about 4 cups in 1/2 hour the other evening , still not quite super ripe and ready yet but great desert!
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Old 07-20-2018, 12:49 PM
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ours in the yard have all been picked, took the nets off and letting the robins have the rest.
The ones in the river valley should be just perfect right now!
Not as many as last year but still love having these berries in the yard.

Raspberries are in the freezer, cherries are ripe, but we just eat those.

Plums will be next, then about 500 apples...please no hail on my apples this year, please!!!!
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Old 07-20-2018, 01:19 PM
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We have a Saskatoon bush in the back yard
Picked about 4 cups in 1/2 hour the other evening , still not quite super ripe and ready yet but great desert!
Cat
I picked about the same amount in the same time off one huge tree along the NSR right here in Edmonton. Biggest Saskatoon bush I've ever send. Easily 8 inches across the trunk at the base, with branches shooting out 16-20 feet. Going back for more this weekend. Baked a pie with the first bunch I picked.

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Old 07-20-2018, 02:50 PM
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2 pies just out of the oven, I will let them cool and then add a little whipped cream on top....
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Old 07-20-2018, 03:01 PM
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its been a record year for saskatoons out here. With June being cooler and wetter than normal the bushes are/were loaded. Season is pretty much done. We picked 3 ice cream pails in under an hour.
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Old 07-20-2018, 03:31 PM
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My dog won't stop eating them, we have 5 acres of em, every time I look out he's in the patch. Hope he don't get worms. It's like I won a lottery around here, every short tail relative of my wife's shows up to get some, then is gone till next year. (that parts ok though). Good year here, ton's of them.
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Old 07-20-2018, 05:00 PM
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Lots of blight on mine this year.
But still enough to go out after supper and have your dessert right off the tree.
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Old 07-20-2018, 07:41 PM
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We went to the Saskatoon farm near de Winton to check out the crop. Very sparse in spite of all the moisture we had in the Spring. The owner told us that it is last year's moisture that determines the crop. Last year was very dry.

Glad to hear there are lots to be had in other parts.
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Old 07-20-2018, 09:47 PM
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Mmmmm Saskatoon pie
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Old 07-21-2018, 08:24 AM
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Picked some 2 weeks ago then went back last weekend,it was better picking last weekend, quite a few are starting to shrivel,but still quite a few still ripening.Will probably get one more pick in tomorrow.Ate 4 pies now,just about by myself and on the 5th one.Froze enough for 8 more pies,hope to get a couple more gallon pales full.
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Old 07-21-2018, 06:52 PM
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Ours are done here ,for a week or so. Was pretty good tho , wife and i picked 18 lbs in less than 2 hours
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