Berry Meter

[Millet]

Some of the owld farmers and young farmers i know always say it is going to be a bad winter if the berry yield on trees is high Acorn and Horse chestnut also .
This year the Rowan and Hawthorn berries are pulling the branches down with the weight of crop, does any scientist bee keeper have any rational thought or ideas on this old wifes tale, or is it true and we need to get prepared.

 

[Hivemaker.]

This year the Rowan and Hawthorn berries are pulling the branches down with the weight of crop

It just means that it has also been an excellent year for Hawthorn and Rowan, among many other things.

 

[Millet]

It just means that it has also been an excellent year for Hawthorn and Rowan, among many other things.

True and straight to the point

 

[Swarm]

Yes I've heard the same though can't say there's much to it. Apparently Oaks get cyclic bumper acorn crops, every ten years or so. My Rowan is well weighed down with berries, Blackbirds usually strip it clean before Autumn really sets in, it's holding it's own so far.

 

[islayhawk]

Same with us on the West Coast of Scotland islands. Masses of rowan berries as well as bumper crops of brambles.

 

[Erichalfbee]

Lots of haws here.
My Rowan trees get stripped by the blackbirds by the end of August and the passing thrushes, redwings and fieldfares get the rest by mid October

 

[Teemore]

We had bugger all in the way of acorns last year but they are starting to cover the lawns at home already.... didn't mean a lot weather wise except that the grey squirrels ate all the horse chestnuts and demonstrated that they are omnivorus by starting on wind fall apples once they cleared up the chestnuts.

 

[taurus]

'Tis a load of old cobblers. The production of berries has nothing to do with the forthcoming winter. It has everything to do with the preceding spring.

 

[MartinL]

'Tis a load of old cobblers.

No.


It's true, if you listened to Steve Wright this afternoon, you will know that Trees grown naturally from seed communicate with each other. .

 

[Millet]

No.


It's true, if you listened to Steve Wright this afternoon, you will know that Trees grown naturally from seed communicate with each other. .

i was listening to that rubbish earlier and i had to turn the radio station over.

 

[MartinL]

i was listening to that rubbish earlier and i had to turn the radio station over.

Awww, no sense of humour?

How far did you get?

He even had the mad scientists Bavarian accent, (didn't mention swarm prevention through drone breeding though)!

 

[Millet]

Awww, no sense of humour?

How far did you get?

He even had the mad scientists Bavarian accent, (didn't mention swarm prevention through drone breeding though)!

Not far i did not have a clue what he was on about roots being cut and calling them brain like structures .

Here it is just for you haha

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p048lpbk

 

[taurus]

yeah yeah - and they walk around with Hobbits in their branches as well.

In fact it's probably the Hobbits that put the extra berries up there.

 

[tonyofarr]

Hobbits don't like to climb, probably the wood elves.

 

[birdsandbees]

What the heck has he been smoking?

Trees remain 2m high for the first couple of centuries in nature??

What a nut job!

 

[MartinL]

What the heck has he been smoking?

Trees remain 2m high for the first couple of centuries in nature??

What a nut job!

How far was he from Chernobyl?

 

[Tremyfro]

Haws can be eaten...though some people spit out the seeds...which like apple seeds contain cyanide. It has been used to regulate heart rates and blood pressure. It has properties which lower cholesterol. You can make a tincture by crushing the berries and soaking in vodka or vinegar for 6 weeks....a couple of ml of the alcoholic tincture or a tablespoon of the vinegar can be used as a treatment. You can also make a fruit jelly...it is high in pectin...so good for helping jam set.
Perhaps we would all be able kick the blood pressure tablets and the statins! Could save the NHS a fortune.....

 

[tonyofarr]

Tremyfro, have you ever tasted this jelly? We have got a lot more hawthorn berries than honey, maybe I should go into production!

We made a mixed hedgerow jelly that had sloes in once, it was not great.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Tremyfro, have you ever tasted this jelly?

Haven't tasted it but two colleagues of mine make it every year - it's a good accompaniment for meats apparently - especially lamb.

 

[Erichalfbee]

Haws can be eatenIt has been used to regulate heart rates and blood pressure. It has properties which lower cholesterol. You can make a tincture by crushing the berries and soaking in vodka or vinegar for 6 weeks....a couple of ml of the alcoholic tincture or a tablespoon of the vinegar can be used as a treatment. You can also make a fruit jelly...it is high in pectin...so good for helping jam set.
Perhaps we would all be able kick the blood pressure tablets and the statins! Could save the NHS a fortune.....

I have white coat HPB
Always have...but ......
I've noticed it creeping up a bit at home (I bought a home meter to prove my doctor wrong....who had never heard of white coat syndrome)
I read about hawthorn in a book somebody gave me about hedgerow medicine when I moved here..........nearly threw it away but there's load of good stuff there. Elderberry and honey syrup is really good for keeping colds away. Hawthorn really does lower my blood pressure. Thank God there's nothing in it about Ley Lines