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Isn't juniper berries?
We have a winner! Homegrown juniper berries
Nice 😁
What's your plan with it?
I haven't quite fighter that part out yet. We just saw them in ouf garden bed and so I decided to scoop them up and see what we can do with them.
Any suggestions?
I do pickling with them, just a bit with the cucumber or even fish 😋
Or I leave it in vinegar for cleaning my kitchen counter top. Smells good.
Cursed blue berries
Nope. I have some wild blueberries out front and if we can defend them from the animals, we might get some small blueberries this year, but what's in the picture rates VERY different than blueberries. 😁
juniper?
You got it! Came off oyr trees in the back yard and the raised garden beds were just COVERED in them at the end of the bed by our junipers.
i have a few smaller trees myself 😂
gonna try making some gin?
Not really sure yet. These are from an "Eastern Red Cedar" (which isn't a cedar, it's a juniper) whereas the "Common Juniper" is the one that typically goes into gin.
Beyond that, there's also the facts that
1. I don't know what else goes into gin and
2. I don't actually like gin
If someone here has a recipe they like, I might try making an extremely small recipe (like, 8 fl oz) for adventerous friends who are willing to try experimental gin.
Thought they were huckleberries
I've heard of huckleberries but never had any. Now that I see they grow in the Pacific Northwest, it madness sense. I'm too far South/East.
We have wild black currants, some native blueberries, elderberry and black raspberries, but no huckleberries or saskatoons.
The picture were juniper berries
They are shitcoiner brains 🐓🐓
Saskatoons 👀
No, but thank you for teaching me about a North American fruit that I'd never heard of before. Looks like they're only native further North and West of me, otherwise I'd consider lobbying to plant some in our yard somewhere.
I grew up with juniper berries. Only used them in hippie smudge sticks before. 🤷🏻♂️
Juniper Berries!? What are they like?