When I moved into my house years ago there were a few of these little strawberries. I've worked to spread them around. I know them as Alpen strawberries. Nice little berries. I've never seen a sloe fruit. I have had a sloe gin fizz. Hello from a slightly rainy Oregon, USA.
Really love these uk native foraging videos. As a beginner myself you videos help reinforce my fledgling knowledge, and help point me in the right direction for further research. Your vids are clear and helpful with no silly music to distract you. And how you point out the uses of the plant and HOW to actually use them makes you second to none. Please keep up the good work and great videos. God bless.
The best and most informative UK foraging videos in existence. No nonsense, with perfect descriptions and on screen names. Keep doing exactly what you do mate
This was such an educational, relaxing and enjoyable watch 🙂 Over the past two years I’ve really enjoyed picking wild local blackberries and crab apples with my children. We have made countless fruit crumbles this summer but everyone is just as enjoyable as the last! I really want to broaden my knowledge on what else can be picked/cooked and safely eaten. We are so lucky to be surrounded by these wild and free fruity gems.
Thanks 😁. I love making crumbles too, it tastes so much better when it comes from your local hedgerows too. I’ve also got a month by month foraging series on my channel with more wild edibles if you want to learn more
I was out picking Blackberries (in a new spot, I've only recently moved to) and I saw some new fruits I needed to identify. I found your video and I think you feature them, I think they're Damsons? I've never heard of these before, so thanks for the very useful tip.
Thank you for this video. I see many berries and don't know what's what. I know sloe, damsons and regular types, crab apples, rosehips. However, there are so many, similar looking and I don't want to pick any poisons. I wish there was some way they can be differentiated. I've never seen plums in the wild.
I’m really struggling to locate a plentiful sloe supply this year. The bushes seem sparse. But I found a damson hoard that I can utilise without fear of feeling guilty for taking too many. Thanks for the video, genuinely surprised to know about wild red currants!
I mostly see fruit plants where gardens have been. Wild straw, and bluberries are wild. The others come from cultivation. For some reason untended apples are quite small, as if they had shrunk as seasons passed. But they are numerous. I think planners wouldn't put apples in parks because they don't give a crap about gifting apples to people, and the rotting fruit need to be cleaned up. Cutting the seedbags out of small apples is tedious. Often people pick off the apples before they are ripe, throw them away, and there is nothing left. You don't want to eat apples or plums off the tree without cutting, because they will have Codling Moth maggots inside. There is also a yellow small plum (aliche plum). It seems to be more resistant to Maggots. A trick for getting the flesh off the stones is to rub them with the beater headers of a hand mixer. The bigger plums have stones that taste like Almonds but are not bitter like Garden Cherries from amygdalin. Red currants are not an attractive plant. Cooking makes them release tannins and they taste like black tea. Black Currants are the bomb. They are a garden plant and quite vulnerable to pests destroying it utterly. But the berries are very strong and can be cooked. Do you know what a Grape-lookalike is? It grows on wines on fences and ripens in august.
Close to where I live there are fruits growing that look like 'damsons', but they are yellow (almost orange when really ripe). I don't know how you call them in English (here in the Netherlands they have several regional names). I use them for making jam.
what time would you recommend picking sloes? people say you can freeze them rather than picking after the first frost, but i'm not sure how early is too early. they all look ripe here already. thanks for the videos!
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When I moved into my house years ago there were a few of these little strawberries. I've worked to spread them around. I know them as Alpen strawberries. Nice little berries. I've never seen a sloe fruit. I have had a sloe gin fizz. Hello from a slightly rainy Oregon, USA.
Really love these uk native foraging videos.
As a beginner myself you videos help reinforce my fledgling knowledge, and help point me in the right direction for further research.
Your vids are clear and helpful with no silly music to distract you.
And how you point out the uses of the plant and HOW to actually use them makes you second to none.
Please keep up the good work and great videos.
God bless.
Thanks so much 😁
The best and most informative UK foraging videos in existence. No nonsense, with perfect descriptions and on screen names. Keep doing exactly what you do mate
Thanks mate 😁
This was such an educational, relaxing and enjoyable watch 🙂 Over the past two years I’ve really enjoyed picking wild local blackberries and crab apples with my children. We have made countless fruit crumbles this summer but everyone is just as enjoyable as the last! I really want to broaden my knowledge on what else can be picked/cooked and safely eaten. We are so lucky to be surrounded by these wild and free fruity gems.
Thanks 😁. I love making crumbles too, it tastes so much better when it comes from your local hedgerows too. I’ve also got a month by month foraging series on my channel with more wild edibles if you want to learn more
Carp love unripe blackberries, the red ones in particular as they still float.
My absolute favourite the wild strawberry 🍓 the most complex flavour ever of any fruit in my opinion!
Yep in always so happy when I see them
Interesting video
I was out picking Blackberries (in a new spot, I've only recently moved to) and I saw some new fruits I needed to identify. I found your video and I think you feature them, I think they're Damsons? I've never heard of these before, so thanks for the very useful tip.
Thank you for another really good clear video still learning peace and blessings from northeast 🙏
Thanks 😊
Very good video, thank you.
Thank you for this video. I see many berries and don't know what's what. I know sloe, damsons and regular types, crab apples, rosehips. However, there are so many, similar looking and I don't want to pick any poisons. I wish there was some way they can be differentiated. I've never seen plums in the wild.
One useful tip here, if it is being eaten by birds then it is edible.
@@anonanon5501 edible, yes, but not always tasty (for the human taste)
Wooooooowoooow those redcurrants look superb!!!!!
I usually freeze the sloes to get rid of the tartness
Yeah that works well :)
Me too.
Nice video. Interesting stuff on the crab apples
Thanks 😊
My father told me that sloes become sweet after they get exposure to the autumn frost.
They do, I think they are inedible before the frost
I’m really struggling to locate a plentiful sloe supply this year. The bushes seem sparse. But I found a damson hoard that I can utilise without fear of feeling guilty for taking too many. Thanks for the video, genuinely surprised to know about wild red currants!
Just found loads around the corner from me in Surrey. Big ones too. Usually found near to Hawthorn in field hedgerows.
Oli TwoShirts there’s no shortage in actual bushes, just not many fruit on the plants. Glad to hear you’ve found some though !
maybe they're fruiting a little later than usual? hope you have better luck soon!
goldfinch yeah maybe, maybe I’m looking in the wrong places! 😖
Haha they are to flavour the mothers ruin I take it?
Your videos are so good! Really easy to follow and very knowledgeable
Well done and thanks very much for getting a better mic, your knowledge is priceless and i dont want to miss anything :)
Thanks yes much better now I have the mic :)
I mostly see fruit plants where gardens have been. Wild straw, and bluberries are wild. The others come from cultivation.
For some reason untended apples are quite small, as if they had shrunk as seasons passed. But they are numerous. I think planners wouldn't put apples in parks because they don't give a crap about gifting apples to people, and the rotting fruit need to be cleaned up. Cutting the seedbags out of small apples is tedious. Often people pick off the apples before they are ripe, throw them away, and there is nothing left. You don't want to eat apples or plums off the tree without cutting, because they will have Codling Moth maggots inside.
There is also a yellow small plum (aliche plum). It seems to be more resistant to Maggots. A trick for getting the flesh off the stones is to rub them with the beater headers of a hand mixer. The bigger plums have stones that taste like Almonds but are not bitter like Garden Cherries from amygdalin.
Red currants are not an attractive plant. Cooking makes them release tannins and they taste like black tea. Black Currants are the bomb. They are a garden plant and quite vulnerable to pests destroying it utterly. But the berries are very strong and can be cooked.
Do you know what a Grape-lookalike is? It grows on wines on fences and ripens in august.
Thankyou, I really enjoy this channel
Thanks 😊
Close to where I live there are fruits growing that look like 'damsons', but they are yellow (almost orange when really ripe). I don't know how you call them in English (here in the Netherlands they have several regional names). I use them for making jam.
we call those plums, well the small pinkish one a bullace. Which are native to the East Coast
what time would you recommend picking sloes? people say you can freeze them rather than picking after the first frost, but i'm not sure how early is too early. they all look ripe here already. thanks for the videos!
goldfinch I’d pick them if they look ready and freeze them. You could wait until Christmas before we get a frost. You’d want sloe gin by then!
I usually pick them in August or September. As soon as they have a little softness in them
I never wait for the frost for sloes
Damsons are very common in Romania, a lot more common than plums trees
Hello fellow romanian forager 😂.
GRATE VIDEO I LOVE IT. CANNAE WAIT FUR SUMMER
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This is soo needed now that the world is ending
I like Raw Sloe's full of Vitamin C and E .
I like a nibble on them now and again
I'll eat sloes on my wanders.
Just shows how much fruit is native to Britain
Yep loads 😊
12:32 did you say sloes are NOT edible?
Sloes are edible
@@UKWILDCRAFTS thank you
He says that the berries are pretty much inedible raw. Because they're astringent. I like them raw. They're tasty.