I can tell from looking at my neighbor's yard from over the fence that it does get quite out of control...it's extremely thorny, too, and spiders like nesting in it. D: So on days when it's particularly webby, I get John to pick the berries. :D
Ah, I mixed up my bees. Whatever this guy was, he was huge, about 10x the size of a honeybee. Anyway we left him alone and he was completely happy. :D
We didn't can any; we dehydrated them with a food dehydrator ($50 at Bed Bath & Beyond), and John was able to make fruit leather with them. Yum! Plus we made a few jars of apricot jam. The rest I froze, after washing and pitting them; I might either save them for smoothies or thaw them out for apricot tartlets or a pie or something later.
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Date: 2010-08-11 06:46 pm (UTC)Ah, I mixed up my bees. Whatever this guy was, he was huge, about 10x the size of a honeybee. Anyway we left him alone and he was completely happy. :D
We didn't can any; we dehydrated them with a food dehydrator ($50 at Bed Bath & Beyond), and John was able to make fruit leather with them. Yum! Plus we made a few jars of apricot jam. The rest I froze, after washing and pitting them; I might either save them for smoothies or thaw them out for apricot tartlets or a pie or something later.