So far, we didn't have many summer days this year (or the past 2 years), but since we were lucky during our holiday, I shouldn't complain. Due to cold temperatures and grey skies, nature is late in ripening fruits and vegetables. Better late than never!
Last Saturday I got an unexpected invitation to pick my favorite berries: Juneberries. Our tree had died last year and the new one is still too small to get a share of berries from the birds. So I spent 2,5 hours picking on Sunday and filled about one third of a bucket. My husband picked cherries and brought a full bucket home.
On Monday I started making jam - the Juneberries first, which is a hard job, but the result is delicious!
In my freezer I found some blackberries from last year and since I love them with apricot together in jam, I took them out. (to make space for this year's crop). In the evening my husband picked more cherries and to get a variety I made cherry jam with different other fruits, like red currents, kiwi and pinapple. By yesterday evening I had filled 45 jars with homemade jam.
There are still many jars full from the last years - and now only very few are left empty.
We now have raspberries in our garden and our neighbour offered to pick his morello cherries, beside offers to pick plums later on and new blackberries still green. Not to mention pears, although we won't get as many as the last years. So far, all this fruit has to rest in our freezer until I have more empty jars.
Still - eating our homemade jam always reminds me of picking fruits in the sunshine under a blue sky!
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