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gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 8993
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Sat Mar 08, 25 4:24 pm Post subject:
Mainly fruit... brambles, elderberries, apples, pears, hips and haws. The squirrels always get the hazelnuts first... Sweet chestnuts if I'm in the right place at the right time! ( Same goes for cherries!!)

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 16147

Posted: Sun Mar 09, 25 8:41 am Post subject:

I used to get cherries from another part of the woodland complex we are in, but the trees are too tall to pick now and I rearely get to the fallen fruit at the right time. I used to forage apples from gardens that had been abandoned locally, but they are all built on now. If I want to make something like hedgerow jam, I do sometimes go to a green lane near us to get rowan, elderberry, and sloes, and plenty of haws around. We have rosa arvensis in the woods, so not too many hips, but have occasionally foraged them. I sometimes get to the hazel nuts before the squirrels, but a lot seem to develop as nut tree seedlings in the garden. Not sure if that is squirrels of something else burying them. In the woods it is jays, but haven't seen a jay in the garden.

Nicky cigreen

Joined: 25 Jun 2007
Posts: 9895
Location: Devon, uk

Posted: Sun Mar 09, 25 5:03 pm Post subject:
blackbirds have most of my wild strawberries... I k now as there was a nest right by the kitchen window, so I could see the strawberry thief at work

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 16147

Posted: Mon Mar 10, 25 8:08 am Post subject:
Pity, but I am sure the blackbirds enjoyed them.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45719
Location: Essex

Posted: Mon Mar 10, 25 2:34 pm Post subject:

Nicky cigreen wrote:

oh I had forgotten about wild strawberries, yes I pick them too, although the birds enjoy most of them.

Ours used to get attacked by squirrels, used to nibble off the seeds and discard the fruit

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46407
Location: yes

Posted: Mon Mar 10, 25 3:01 pm Post subject:
hide strawberries if you can live in the tree if you want to be first on the cherries

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