SO because of the bad weather during the months of July and first half of August the harvest was 3 weeks late. But I went up with Lisa (VanillaRat) and her girl Chloe for a walk and we spotted the blueberries!!! I was lucky enough to have brought bags so we picked berries up there. :tonguerol
Signal Hill is a Canadian Heritage site and the location of Cabot Tower where Sir Marconi sent and received the first trans Atlantic communication via morse code. Cool place to go, wicked trails and spectacular view. (I believe I have posted pictures here of the trails and scenery before)
Signal Hill is the largest site in St. John's for wild blueberries. Actually I'm not even sure how far you have to go out of town to find more. But anyway, among other things are wild raspberries, blackberries, Labrador tea, sheepkill, scent bottle orchids, meadowsweet, knapweed, pitcher plants (which are so ugly they became the provincial plant somehow), cotton grass, fox glove, meadow rose, crackerberry, rhodora, cinnamon fern, black crowberries, hawkweed.. Anyway I'm getting carried away. :hehe: I plan to start a quest tomorrow to go up collecting some of these things for medicinal purposes.
Not my point, I have some pics of the blueberry bushes (they grow close to the ground on most of the hill but also on bushes. The first thing I made was berry scones. I didn't realise that they would rise like they did!!! They're so tasty and crumbly. Gonna go visis my mom tomorrow and bring some up. Here's the recipe I mostly followed, I altered the sugar and added 2/3 cup rather the tsp. it called for.
http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,175,146183-224203,00.html
I recommend it
Signal Hill is a Canadian Heritage site and the location of Cabot Tower where Sir Marconi sent and received the first trans Atlantic communication via morse code. Cool place to go, wicked trails and spectacular view. (I believe I have posted pictures here of the trails and scenery before)
Signal Hill is the largest site in St. John's for wild blueberries. Actually I'm not even sure how far you have to go out of town to find more. But anyway, among other things are wild raspberries, blackberries, Labrador tea, sheepkill, scent bottle orchids, meadowsweet, knapweed, pitcher plants (which are so ugly they became the provincial plant somehow), cotton grass, fox glove, meadow rose, crackerberry, rhodora, cinnamon fern, black crowberries, hawkweed.. Anyway I'm getting carried away. :hehe: I plan to start a quest tomorrow to go up collecting some of these things for medicinal purposes.
Not my point, I have some pics of the blueberry bushes (they grow close to the ground on most of the hill but also on bushes. The first thing I made was berry scones. I didn't realise that they would rise like they did!!! They're so tasty and crumbly. Gonna go visis my mom tomorrow and bring some up. Here's the recipe I mostly followed, I altered the sugar and added 2/3 cup rather the tsp. it called for.
http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,175,146183-224203,00.html
I recommend it