I didn't know how delicious Saskatchewan berries are!

CoyotesGator said:
Holy cow, they are delicious! Hints of raspberry and light cherry with just a little tartness to go with the sweet.
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I think you mean Saskatoons? I agree! I like 'em better than blueberries and they are easier to pick.
I planted seven tall bushes growing up as a divider on my deck... they are like ten feet tall now... can't even en reach the top ones so the birds get them. This year they are not performing well. Last year was a bumper crop, couldn't eat them fast enough.
Try them in cream with a sprinkle of sugar or with vanilla ice cream
 
TVvoodoo said:
I think you mean Saskatoons? I agree! I like 'em better than blueberries and they are easier to pick.
I planted seven tall bushes growing up as a divider on my deck... they are like ten feet tall now... can't even en reach the top ones so the birds get them. This year they are not performing well. Last year was a bumper crop, couldn't eat them fast enough.
Try them in cream with a sprinkle of sugar or with vanilla ice cream
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I never understood how berries grow in the frozen arctic tundra of Canada.

But look at it this way:
Canucks never spend a dime to keep the beer cold; it's highly efficient.
 
TVvoodoo said:
I think you mean Saskatoons? I agree! I like 'em better than blueberries and they are easier to pick.
I planted seven tall bushes growing up as a divider on my deck... they are like ten feet tall now... can't even en reach the top ones so the birds get them. This year they are not performing well. Last year was a bumper crop, couldn't eat them fast enough.
Try them in cream with a sprinkle of sugar or with vanilla ice cream
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Do you ever make jelly/preserves with them?
 
My mom used to. Make a great pie too, or a syrup topping for pancakes etc. They are much like blueberries in form, darker purple, sweeter, almost a bit of blackberry/cherry flavor like you mention when compared to blueberries. Like most berries the wild ones taste a bit more intense than the genetically modded ones the farms are now planting. But up here they grow wild all over the place, boreal forest. How did you come to sample them @CoyotesGator ?

Here's the divider on my deck
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TVvoodoo said:
My mom used to. Make a great pie too, or a syrup topping for pancakes etc. They are much like blueberries in form, darker purple, sweeter, almost a bit of blackberry/cherry flavor like you mention when compared to blueberries. Like most berries the wild ones taste a bit more intense than the genetically modded ones the farms are now planting. But up here they grow wild all over the place, boreal forest. How did you come to sample them @CoyotesGator ?

Here's the divider on my deck
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Warning
(when cooking) Keep the BBQ away from exterior walls.
The heat from the BBQ can overheat the wiring (+ wood frame) that's inside the wall, and start a fire.
It's happened before. (yes, documented here on this website)
(when cooking) The BBQ should be at least 10 feet from the exterior wall (fire codes).
 
Amp Mad Scientist said:
I never understood how berries grow in the frozen arctic tundra of Canada.

But look at it this way:
Canucks never spend a dime to keep the beer cold; it's highly efficient.
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Because Canada is vast, It is not frozen tundra. We have a growing season from late April till late Sept here and almost year round on the west coast.
Heat waves can hit 90+ F many times.
Interesting the perceptions of our country.

Yes it can be brutal cold in the dead of winter.
 
TVvoodoo said:
My mom used to. Make a great pie too, or a syrup topping for pancakes etc. They are much like blueberries in form, darker purple, sweeter, almost a bit of blackberry/cherry flavor like you mention when compared to blueberries. Like most berries the wild ones taste a bit more intense than the genetically modded ones the farms are now planting. But up here they grow wild all over the place, boreal forest. How did you come to sample them @CoyotesGator ?

Here's the divider on my deck
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We are fishing at Lake of the Woods in Ontario. Semi-close to Kenora.
 
Amp Mad Scientist said:
Warning
(when cooking) Keep the BBQ away from exterior walls.
The heat from the BBQ can overheat the wiring (+ wood frame) that's inside the wall, and start a fire.
It's happened before. (yes, documented here on this website)
(when cooking) The BBQ should be at least 10 feet from the exterior wall (fire codes).
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Yep, here’s the PSA…

Almost lost it all...

Took a day for the adrenaline to wear off to post this. A lot of you know we bought a new place in Lake Arrowhead last year In following my DOC’s Studio build thread. Our last home had a nice BBQ island I built, but I certainly couldn’t move that to the new place so I ordered a new grill for...
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A appreciate the concern my brothers! Back as young buck in my 20's I once heat warped some vinyl siding on a rental home and it cost me a lot of dough I didn't have at the time... so that was a pretty big lesson.

I do pull my grill away maybe 20" from my wall, when in use and while that's a far cry from the recommended amount, a vast distance like 10 feet seems a bit over exuberant. How many of you actually pull your "Q" 10 feet away from your homes when grilling?

The exterior walls of my structure (which was at one time a Mennonite Church) feature about 1.5" thick concrete stucco under that rather off-putting paint color my wife chose. It barely even warms up after a typical grill session.

I have to wonder how many people actually have patios, decks or apartment balconies 10 feet wide for grill distancing, not that many I'll bet.
 
There is one problem that may arise with parking your RV in a place where there are a lot of delicious wild berries

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We watched this yearling black bear basically circle our site for about an hour tonight, methodically stripping the bushes, just gorging away..... this is from our RV "kitchen" window.
 
TVvoodoo said:
A appreciate the concern my brothers! Back as young buck in my 20's I once heat warped some vinyl siding on a rental home and it cost me a lot of dough I didn't have at the time... so that was a pretty big lesson.

I do pull my grill away maybe 20" from my wall, when in use and while that's a far cry from the recommended amount, a vast distance like 10 feet seems a bit over exuberant. How many of you actually pull your "Q" 10 feet away from your homes when grilling?

The exterior walls of my structure (which was at one time a Mennonite Church) feature about 1.5" thick concrete stucco under that rather off-putting paint color my wife chose. It barely even warms up after a typical grill session.

I have to wonder how many people actually have patios, decks or apartment balconies 10 feet wide for grill distancing, not that many I'll bet.
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Well Brad, I was surprised the name on the BBQ wasn't Broil King.:wink::p
 
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