We're picking wild blackberries at home today, along a ridge in the yard. We'd finish one patch, turn around, and -- I swear -- the almost-ripe berries in the patch we'd already picked had ripened in that short time. Yup, it's been that HOT lately. We've also been picking berries daily from our small blueberry patch (yup -- those bushes are producing even though we planted them this spring.) It's been so warm that we're finding berries turned to "raisins" on the bush the next day. Cannot keep up. Help! :-) To supplement the fruit we grow at home, we've...
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