How to Pick Blackberries

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: Choose your blackberry picking spot.

   This could be a hedge, some bushes at the side of the road, or right in your back garden! Don't be afraid to go just beyond one bit of shrubbery
   - picking blackberries can evoke an excellent opportunity for an autumn walk! Make sure you bring a tub with you, otherwise you'll struggle in bringing them all back to your house if you pick a lot. , Choose the darkest coloured, purplish blackberries
   - the red ones won't taste as nice, and the green ones haven't ripened yet. , (Pulling straight down can damage the berries).
   
   If the berry doesn't easily release, it's not ripe yet.
   
   If it falls apart in your fingers, it's overripe and should be discarded. , Once you've got enough berries from that hedge, move onto the next one.
   
   Blackberries are common fruit
   - you'll find them almost everywhere, so looking for them won't be hard. , There are thousands of possibilities
   - you could make a blackberry pie, a tart, jam, ice cream, or you could just simply eat them raw.
   
   The choice is yours
   - it's up to you what you do, but make sure you enjoy them!
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   Step 2: Approach the bush

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   Step 3: holding the tub in one hand.

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   Step 4: Carefully grasp the individual berries and bend perpendicular to the stem.

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   Step 5: Add the berries to your tub.

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   Step 6: Decide what use you are going to put the blackberries to.

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