Blackberries foraging spots

[DorisDay]

Hi,

Does anyone know where there are some good blackberry foraging spots in the local area?

I hear Burgess Park is reasonable..

[Peckhampam]

Nunhead cemetery

[Vik]

Any of the 3 cemeteries or One Tree Hiil are always plentyful.

[JDR]

Unfortunately a side effect of old camber well cemetery work was they pulled most of the bushes from there.... Slim pickings

We're going to try Dulwich woods, but no idea if any good

[Pickle]

JDR, there are still quite a few in the really old part of the cemetery, down towards Forest Hill Rd on the left hand side (where all the old condemned graves are) :)

[KalamityKel]

Dulwich woods often produces lots of blackberries. You'll have to work a bit to reach the biggest and best though!

[Mazza6]

In the nature reserve gated section behind the cafe in Dulwich Park. Follow the path around and at the back are lots of blackberries.

[Twirly]

Does anyone know any good areas a bit further afield? Thinking of going out of town on Saturday for a day out at a National Trust Place, maybe Sissinghurst. Would love to go blackberrying whilst down there.

[Annasfield]

Spotted a fox eating blackberries on the railway embankment between east Dulwich and Peckham Rye this morning. I know they're pests but it was lovely to see as it was clearly loving them.

[PeckhamRose]

Went to Hampstead Heath today. Loads and loads there.

[fl0wer]

Saw lovely crops on Dawson Hill yesterday afternoon.

There'll be apples and pears as well, September at the earliest as they aren't ripe yet, but this amazingly strong sunshine is helping.

In a Fen childhood I learnt that some varieties are grown which are best not left to ripen on the tree. The old timers would pick the crop just before frost season [generally October] and then store carefully, a necessary science in pre-freezer, pre-imported fruit era. Reviving it would cut the 'food miles'.

[El Pibe]

The fields behind sainsburys are usually good.

[pandrns]

LOADS at Brockwell Park! Near the BMX track.

[Michael Palaeologus]

Cemeteries are fertile ground for blackberries. Don't know why.

[damzel]

Lots of people picking them on the Surrey Canal Path