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Blueberries, Blueberries and more Blueberries
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Biita
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Location: Norway (Map)
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| Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 11:38 am Post subject: Blueberries, Blueberries and more Blueberries |
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I'm not sure if these should go into this catagory since our blueberries here in Norway are wild. I don't think anyone plants a blueberry plant intentionally. lol. There everywhere! But since these are wild blueberries, and i forage from the wild, so all the wilderness is my garden. There i think it can go here now,,,lol. Anyway my garden.
Wild blueberries here in the Arctic grow very low to the ground. A lot of kneeling, crouching and moving on the knees to get these beauties.
They are so tasty sweet from the sun here 24 hours a day, that you barely need any sugar at all when making jam or saft. See the 2 little cluster of berries at the top, those are Tyttebær in the making. They will get very very deep dark red. The Swedes call them Lingonbær.
And these were for me! Ohhh so good too!
An hours worth of work,,,,mmmmmmmm!
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petunia
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Oh Biita, in the fruit section, strawberries and then blueberries are my favs. I think you are lucky to have them grow wild all around you. please enjoy them to the fullest for the rest of us who aren't so lucky. mmmmm
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Biita
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Thank you Petunia. I love strawberries also, but i'm still waiting on a good harvest from mine. I get a few here and there now, but it hasn't been very warm until this week...
We are boiling here. Since sunday its been in the mid to high 20's C. or mid to high 70's F. Thats extreme here. It is the Arctic, and high 60's to low 70's is hot for us. But!! The plus side to all this, is this is what my strawberries need. I'll be checking on them tonight when it gets alot cooler.
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toni
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| Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 2:18 pm Post subject: |
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Those look huge. I bet the blueberry fields are filled with pickers now or are you the only forager?
The ones grown over in east Texas aren't real sweet but still sweet enough to eat without added sugar.
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Biita
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| Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 2:36 pm Post subject: |
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lol,,i wish i was the only blueberry forager! But there is so much of it here, that most of it goes to the birds or just rots on the plant. Lots of people you will see out on the hills off roadsides, or in their yards picking now, and will continue to do so for a few more weeks. I encourage all the campers to help themselves and treat them to as many blueberries as they can pick. Thats how much there is. The mountains are full of blueberries, any huge boulder you see with moss covered on it will be loaded with blueberries. Please come and help yourselves...lol.
We have another kind of blueberry called Blokkenbær that is what i will translate to a wannabe blueberry. Its a little longer in length, not as sweet, but it otherwise looks like the blueberry. It is eadiable and if its a bad yr for blueberries they make a nice filler when mixed with the other berries.
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Sjoerd
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Hey...thanks for posting these fotos of the sort of blueberries that you pick there. it was a pretty good foto of the cranberry-like berries there too.
They look pretty darned good to me. I can see that you probably get tons of jam and so forth each season.  mmmmmmmmmmm.....
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jakrum421
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So that's what they make lingonberry jam from! I often go to a Scandinavian restaurant near my home town called the Norske Nook and they serve pancakes with lingonberry jam. It's so good! No wonder I like it so well since blueberries are my favorite. Thank you for solving that mystery. LOL.
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Biita
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| Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 8:36 am Post subject: |
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Glad i could help there Jakrum,,lol. I'll be posting also when i do harvest the tyttebær what they look like when there ready. Their horriable when there fresh, they have to be cooked to tasted good.
i'm still picking blueberries. I want a few more Kilo bags, then i'll be done for the yr with them.
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CritterPainter
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The blueberry farms near me are starting to open up for picking too, yayyy! I could live happily with nothing but blueberries, I think! Interesting that they grow under the same conditions as lingonberries in the wild...
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PepperDude
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I smell blueberry cobbler mmmmmmmmmm.....
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toni
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| Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 6:53 pm Post subject: |
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I finally gave in and took a bowl of blueberries out of the freezer, I think we will try the waffles with blueberries for dessert tonight.
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Biita
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| Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 7:34 pm Post subject: |
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I've made blueberry cake, hurry up jam that is what i call the jam i made for the waffles, muffins, but mostly i just keep a bowl in the fridge and everytime we go in we grab a handful. I try to freeze alot as i go along but everytime KB goes to the big freezer he brings a cake or muffins with him,,,,sigh! I'll make my jams when all the tourist leave for the summer.
waffles and fruit of anykind is still my fav.
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Pianolady
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| Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 9:32 pm Post subject: |
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Those look heavenly!
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dooley
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Yep, blueberries are in my refrigerator waiting to go into a fruit salad for dinner tomorrow. Hope everyone likes them as much as we do. dooley
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