badger Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 Hello allDoes anyone know if people are allowed to pick the blackberries and elderberries in the Peckham Rye gardens and Dulwich park? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/25115-blackberry-picking/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
mynamehere Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 go to nunhead cemetary and dawson's hill and brenchly gardens for a bit of wild that's not so park and the canal path Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/25115-blackberry-picking/#findComment-569095 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs TP Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 Gosh never considered being allowed / not allowed! Have picked blackberries in Dul Park and remember a post on here re someone recommending elderberry picking in Peck Rye.Would say go for it and enjoy your labours. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/25115-blackberry-picking/#findComment-569096 Share on other sites More sharing options...
badger Posted August 16, 2012 Author Share Posted August 16, 2012 Thanks!!!And for those interested in general foraging, I found this awesome site: http://fruitcity.co.uk/the-fruit-map/ and this: via https://www.facebook.com/urbanforagerpeckhampickler Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/25115-blackberry-picking/#findComment-569097 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mynamehere Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 And some wonderful planner/ horticulturalist for Southwark some years back planted the streets of East Dulwich full of crab apples. We've all been walking under a harvest of fruit for years and crushing it to pulp under our feet and some day the new lot of decision makers will rip them all out because they are "dirty". These rainbow crabapples make jam that comes in colours that you've rarely seen and tastes superb. There's so much pectin that it sets solid. Look up in a month and all that bright red and yellow and orange is edible. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/25115-blackberry-picking/#findComment-569146 Share on other sites More sharing options...
the-e-dealer Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 East Dulwich was Orchards. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/25115-blackberry-picking/#findComment-569177 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alec John Moore Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 Thanks for the links, badger. I love the idea of foraging and guerilla gardening. I wouldn't be so down on the planners, mynamehere. I have spotted some deliberately planted fruit trees on the Surrey Canal path as I whiz past on my bike. Will make a point of stopping to examine them more closely and report back. It would seem to be part of the Burgess Park Master Plan to have foraging trees/bushes including hazel, cherry and even mulberry.If you look around this forum you'll find a couple of community initiatives regarding fruit trees such as East Dulwich Orchard Collective and Matham Grove Street Orchard.If there is anyone else who lives of Tyrrell Road reading this, would you be interested in trying to establish a street orchard?Alec Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/25115-blackberry-picking/#findComment-569185 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ukjoncollins Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 Just go for it. I've been foraging all round Dulwich this year for elderflowers. The only people to say anything are the inquisitive folk of Dulwich wanting to know what I'm making. If you don't pick them no doubt they'll just go to waste. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/25115-blackberry-picking/#findComment-569220 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dontpanic Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 Check out http://www.facebook.com/urbanforagerpeckhampickler the Peckham Pickler - everything you need to know about foraging in these parts. Blackberries are fair game to anyone by the way.... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/25115-blackberry-picking/#findComment-569356 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alec John Moore Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 I've been trying to note the fruit bearing trees that have been planted along the northern part of the Surrey Canal Path in Peckham. From memory there are plenty of rowan but also damson and crab apple. The newly/recently planted trees will probably take a while before they bear fruit and they are getting a bit smothered by weeds. They seem to be part of a scheme. Will try to find out more. I just like the idea that foraging is being officially encouraged. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/25115-blackberry-picking/#findComment-570507 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moos Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 I think berries and elderflower are fair game, they're not that decorative so no harm in taking them home and making delicious good use of them. Foraging is a fun pastime. My only exception to the rule would be holly berries at Christmas time - they are part of the decoration of the park just as flowers are, and should be left for us all to enjoy. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/25115-blackberry-picking/#findComment-570509 Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Pibe Posted August 23, 2012 Share Posted August 23, 2012 Badger, the fields behind Sainsbury's there are quite literally millions of blackberries there.get there either via greendale, abbotswood road or the little nature park/spinney between sainsbo's and the champion hill estatehttps://maps.google.co.uk/?ll=51.460202,-0.085275&spn=0.004532,0.01089&t=v&z=17 Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/25115-blackberry-picking/#findComment-570986 Share on other sites More sharing options...
KidKruger Posted August 23, 2012 Share Posted August 23, 2012 been waiting for this season for, oh, abou a year now... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/25115-blackberry-picking/#findComment-570993 Share on other sites More sharing options...
badger Posted August 23, 2012 Author Share Posted August 23, 2012 this is all such awesomeness - thanks peeps! I've had four jars of jam from this already...... :) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/25115-blackberry-picking/#findComment-571005 Share on other sites More sharing options...
KidKruger Posted August 23, 2012 Share Posted August 23, 2012 What's the recipe (link to recipe) ? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/25115-blackberry-picking/#findComment-571011 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renata Hamvas Posted August 24, 2012 Share Posted August 24, 2012 No probs with doing this, due to the lack of sun this summer though, blackberries are just starting to become ripe, in another week or two you'll probably have a more successful forage! Be aware that some areas of the cemeteries are cordened off for safety reasons.happy picking! (and eating/preserving)Renata Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/25115-blackberry-picking/#findComment-571418 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wonderwoman Posted August 24, 2012 Share Posted August 24, 2012 I remember definitely picking damsons when I was younger in Benchley gardens, near the forest hill road entrance. Although not fruit I came across a bay leaf tree in Peckham Rye Park on the way to the duck pond opposite the bowling green. A question in relation to picking, I've been told that if something grows over a private residence garden onto a public road or street technically one is allowed to pick, I'm sure it would be polite to ask the residence first but does anyone know if this is true? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/25115-blackberry-picking/#findComment-571433 Share on other sites More sharing options...
benmorg Posted August 25, 2012 Share Posted August 25, 2012 There are a couple of wild plum trees at the far end of Dulwich Hamlets FC car park. Small plums but good for jam. The trees are groaning with them and lots of fruit going to waste on the ground. Takes about 5 mins to pick 1-2 kg. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/25115-blackberry-picking/#findComment-571584 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fazer71 Posted August 25, 2012 Share Posted August 25, 2012 only a metter of time before this !(I pick mine at carphone warehouse);) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/25115-blackberry-picking/#findComment-571639 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hare Posted August 25, 2012 Share Posted August 25, 2012 Good foraging recipes on http://www.hedgerowharvest.org.uk, too Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/25115-blackberry-picking/#findComment-571708 Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Brady Posted August 26, 2012 Share Posted August 26, 2012 Coxs walk = pots and pots of brambling opportunities. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/25115-blackberry-picking/#findComment-571742 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuschia Posted August 27, 2012 Share Posted August 27, 2012 Whereabouts are the d park blackberries? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/25115-blackberry-picking/#findComment-572028 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassius Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 Just be careful about putting berries straight into your mouth or the mouths of babes which are at the right height for dogs to have piddled over. Wash those first and keep the ones at a greater height for the snacking! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/25115-blackberry-picking/#findComment-572906 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pickle Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 The cemetery on Forest Hill Road (entrance just up from the Rose pub) is usually good for blackberries, they grow around the perimeter on the Wood Vale and Langton Rise sides. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/25115-blackberry-picking/#findComment-572910 Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Pibe Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 I went with the wee one yesterday and it's very slim pickings compared to last year :( Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/25115-blackberry-picking/#findComment-572958 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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