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Really love these uk native foraging videos. As a beginner myself you videos help reinforce my fledgling knowledge, and help point me in the right direction for further research. Your vids are clear and helpful with no silly music to distract you. And how you point out the uses of the plant and HOW to actually use them makes you second to none. Please keep up the good work and great videos. God bless.

@UKWILDCRAFTS

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much 😁

The best and most informative UK foraging videos in existence. No nonsense, with perfect descriptions and on screen names. Keep doing exactly what you do mate

@UKWILDCRAFTS

Жыл бұрын

Thanks mate 😁

Interesting video

When I moved into my house years ago there were a few of these little strawberries. I've worked to spread them around. I know them as Alpen strawberries. Nice little berries. I've never seen a sloe fruit. I have had a sloe gin fizz. Hello from a slightly rainy Oregon, USA.

Wooooooowoooow those redcurrants look superb!!!!!

Carp love unripe blackberries, the red ones in particular as they still float.

My absolute favourite the wild strawberry 🍓 the most complex flavour ever of any fruit in my opinion!

@UKWILDCRAFTS

3 жыл бұрын

Yep in always so happy when I see them

My father told me that sloes become sweet after they get exposure to the autumn frost.

@AlissaSss23

Жыл бұрын

They do, I think they are inedible before the frost

I was out picking Blackberries (in a new spot, I've only recently moved to) and I saw some new fruits I needed to identify. I found your video and I think you feature them, I think they're Damsons? I've never heard of these before, so thanks for the very useful tip.

Thank you for another really good clear video still learning peace and blessings from northeast 🙏

@UKWILDCRAFTS

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks 😊

Well done and thanks very much for getting a better mic, your knowledge is priceless and i dont want to miss anything :)

@UKWILDCRAFTS

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks yes much better now I have the mic :)

Very good video, thank you.

Nice video. Interesting stuff on the crab apples

@UKWILDCRAFTS

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks 😊

This is soo needed now that the world is ending

I usually freeze the sloes to get rid of the tartness

@UKWILDCRAFTS

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah that works well :)

@silviamagda

9 ай бұрын

Me too.

Thankyou, I really enjoy this channel

@UKWILDCRAFTS

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks 😊

GRATE VIDEO I LOVE IT. CANNAE WAIT FUR SUMMER

@UKWILDCRAFTS

Ай бұрын

😁

Your videos are so good! Really easy to follow and very knowledgeable

I’m really struggling to locate a plentiful sloe supply this year. The bushes seem sparse. But I found a damson hoard that I can utilise without fear of feeling guilty for taking too many. Thanks for the video, genuinely surprised to know about wild red currants!

@Barziboy

3 жыл бұрын

Just found loads around the corner from me in Surrey. Big ones too. Usually found near to Hawthorn in field hedgerows.

@TwoFourJoy

3 жыл бұрын

Oli TwoShirts there’s no shortage in actual bushes, just not many fruit on the plants. Glad to hear you’ve found some though !

@nathanfinch7395

3 жыл бұрын

maybe they're fruiting a little later than usual? hope you have better luck soon!

@TwoFourJoy

3 жыл бұрын

goldfinch yeah maybe, maybe I’m looking in the wrong places! 😖

@neil1261

3 жыл бұрын

Haha they are to flavour the mothers ruin I take it?

Damsons are very common in Romania, a lot more common than plums trees

@silviamagda

9 ай бұрын

Hello fellow romanian forager 😂.

Thank you for this video. I see many berries and don't know what's what. I know sloe, damsons and regular types, crab apples, rosehips. However, there are so many, similar looking and I don't want to pick any poisons. I wish there was some way they can be differentiated. I've never seen plums in the wild.

@anonanon5501

2 жыл бұрын

One useful tip here, if it is being eaten by birds then it is edible.

@ingeleonora-denouden6222

Жыл бұрын

@@anonanon5501 edible, yes, but not always tasty (for the human taste)

I'll eat sloes on my wanders.

Close to where I live there are fruits growing that look like 'damsons', but they are yellow (almost orange when really ripe). I don't know how you call them in English (here in the Netherlands they have several regional names). I use them for making jam.

we call those plums, well the small pinkish one a bullace. Which are native to the East Coast

what time would you recommend picking sloes? people say you can freeze them rather than picking after the first frost, but i'm not sure how early is too early. they all look ripe here already. thanks for the videos!

@TwoFourJoy

3 жыл бұрын

goldfinch I’d pick them if they look ready and freeze them. You could wait until Christmas before we get a frost. You’d want sloe gin by then!

@UKWILDCRAFTS

3 жыл бұрын

I usually pick them in August or September. As soon as they have a little softness in them

@UKWILDCRAFTS

3 жыл бұрын

I never wait for the frost for sloes

I got into trouble for eating straight off the bush cos flys land on them and have magots inside some of them.

I like Raw Sloe's full of Vitamin C and E .

@UKWILDCRAFTS

3 жыл бұрын

I like a nibble on them now and again

Just shows how much fruit is native to Britain

@UKWILDCRAFTS

3 жыл бұрын

Yep loads 😊

12:32 did you say sloes are NOT edible?

@UKWILDCRAFTS

Жыл бұрын

Sloes are edible

@brothercaleb

Жыл бұрын

@@UKWILDCRAFTS thank you

@silviamagda

9 ай бұрын

He says that the berries are pretty much inedible raw. Because they're astringent. I like them raw. They're tasty.