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Saskatoons
I suffered some soft tissue damage to my ankle so have been unable to check my Saskatoon patch in Calgary. I was picking by the 21st last year wondering if anyone has been out and if they are ripe yet.
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07-19-2022, 02:59 PM
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We started picking ours this week, a few hours north of you.
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07-19-2022, 03:04 PM
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In my yard there’s some that are ready but some are still tiny and green.
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07-19-2022, 03:18 PM
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Not QUITE ready in Edmonton. Some early berries that are still a little reddish, but with this heat it is changing day by day. Should be good by Friday. Then lets hope it cools down or we lose the berries in the heat.
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07-19-2022, 03:25 PM
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Seen and ate more the last two days. Some are like grapes but one bush had at least 50% with some form of blight. Gotta fight the mosquitos for them though.
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07-19-2022, 03:36 PM
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My neighbor has been picking buckets of em on my property a week ago.
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07-19-2022, 06:18 PM
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They are ready picking for 4 days now making jam on Thursday probably picked 4 gallons already
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07-19-2022, 09:11 PM
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Some were read in bonnyville a couple days ago. Calgary should be coming on pretty quick.
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07-19-2022, 09:19 PM
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Picked some out camping! With ice cream! MMMMMMM! they were getting dried out though! Ya with this rain! But Ya they were!
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07-19-2022, 09:40 PM
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All the coyote crap I see is full of berry's.Most I see along the paths arnt quite ready.Here in Calgary north.
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07-19-2022, 11:10 PM
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The patches in Lethbridge I have hit the last couple years have nothing. The bushes all up and down the coulee we were in did not even look well. Disappointing as we were going to get some pies done.
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07-19-2022, 11:50 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Lornce
I suffered some soft tissue damage to my ankle so have been unable to check my Saskatoon patch in Calgary. I was picking by the 21st last year wondering if anyone has been out and if they are ripe yet.
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Mine in Calgary are still very much unripe.
Just cleaned off the mummy berries amd tossed them out.
Dam robins are eating the unripe berries. What’s up with that.
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07-20-2022, 05:23 AM
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Decent crop down here this year, and some real nice sized berries as well. Starting to dry out a bit tho
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07-20-2022, 05:58 AM
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Area i pick at in the Pass is way behind with nothing close to ripe.
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07-20-2022, 07:11 AM
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Tons of berries on the trees but I think about another week yet here at my place, about an hour and a half NW of Edmonton.
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07-20-2022, 07:31 AM
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Sumpin weird here in the Pass…. We had tonnes of flowers.. but berries small small and undeveloped…
Weird year… it’s got me wondering about what the huckleberries will be like…..
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07-20-2022, 08:45 AM
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In my neck of the woods there are one or two berries per cluster ripe. It's good for a quick snack, but would be pretty frustrating picking right now.
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07-20-2022, 09:23 AM
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Wondering if anyone has noticed if the black and red currents are priming up? They are so good with wild meats. I know one big patch I am hopefully going to check out soon.
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07-20-2022, 09:34 AM
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The ones around us are still green.
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but never, with a fly rod in my hand have I been in a place that was less than beautiful.
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07-20-2022, 11:22 AM
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Originally Posted by bessiedog
Sumpin weird here in the Pass…. We had tonnes of flowers.. but berries small small and undeveloped…
Weird year… it’s got me wondering about what the huckleberries will be like…..
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Lots of rain and wind can apparently cause a spike in mummy berry. May be a bad crop there for that reason.
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07-20-2022, 02:24 PM
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We went to the farm to pick up some huskap berries, got about 8lb in an hour and half between wife and myself and had to run for cover because mosquitos were absolutely vicious! But it was worth it, made 8 jars of haskap jam that we love!
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07-21-2022, 10:03 PM
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Jam day today
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07-21-2022, 11:16 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by bessiedog
Sumpin weird here in the Pass…. We had tonnes of flowers.. but berries small small and undeveloped…
Weird year… it’s got me wondering about what the huckleberries will be like…..
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Better half and I went out today scouting for berries. We did this almost two weeks ago and there was nothin' ripe on the bushes. Still nothin' today. Besides the toons we went out York Creek way for thimble berries. Same thing, lots of bushes still in flower or green. It had been a cool and rainy spring...must be the reason for the late bloom.
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07-22-2022, 10:34 PM
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Starting to get over ripe here. Huge this year look like grapes. Watched a bear harvesting some trees tonight.
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07-23-2022, 08:41 AM
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There is a big farm the public can pick saskatoons and maybe some other berries just south of calgary but can't remember the name. Anyone know and where??
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07-23-2022, 09:12 AM
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Picked another 20 cups late yesterday in just over an hour for two of us
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07-23-2022, 11:40 AM
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Quote:
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There is a big farm the public can pick saskatoons and maybe some other berries just south of calgary but can't remember the name. Anyone know and where??
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I think you mean this place
https://www.saskatoonfarm.com
They have U-pick but for a few bucks more they sell picked & cleaned. Great restaurant and market there as well
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07-23-2022, 12:45 PM
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I think you mean this place
https://www.saskatoonfarm.com
They have U-pick but for a few bucks more they sell picked & cleaned. Great restaurant and market there as well |
I believe you are right just gotta get the GPS maps on
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07-24-2022, 10:24 PM
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Saskatoons
Picked a couple of ice cream pails full tonight. Some of them are already starting to dry up. Not the best I’ve seen, but not too bad.
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07-25-2022, 06:33 AM
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My sone was out, 6 ice cream pails, lots still green and a couple of bushes were picked over and dry.
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fishing regulations and facts on fish handling
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