Christmas is saved!!!

[lettucegrow!]

What an awful year for the forager. All the usual haunts I manage to collect sloes from have been very poor. I've managed to find just enough sloes today to make one bottle of sloe gin. Christmas can't happen without it in our house!!
Anyone else stuggling?

[Kleftiwallah]

You actually drink the sloe gin you have made a matter of a few weeks earlier! ? ! ? ! ?

Cheers, Tony.

[Hans Mum]

theyre nearly finished here I picked loads about 4 weeks ago, too a friend last sunday for some & we struggled to get enough for her. There were lots still high up but we couldnt reach them

[northepaul]

No sloes down here in my usual haunts at all!

Luckily I had loads last year, so can use frozen......

You can use damsons if thats easier?

[binley100]

Very few sloes here and even worse with the damsons ........

[VirginVegGrower]

Not as many sloes but still a fair amount downstream.

[veggiechicken]

What do you think about using cranberries instead of sloes? They look the same apart from the colour!
Usually sold off cheap after Ch****mad too!

[taff]

I was picking what I thought were sloes, and congratulating myself they were so big and juicy[ relatively speaking compared to normal], and that I hadn't stabbed myself at all, then a couple of ramblers walked past, we had a brief conversation, and it turned out they were tiny plums.....doh!
Never mind, plum vodka it is then
And I'll go and pick proper sloes tomorrow....

[Mikey]

I'm sure I read somewhere that sloes and something else where breed over several generations to create plums. Not sure how true that is. They do have the same depth of colour.

[lettucegrow!]

Mmmm, yep. A bit late I know but have been struggling to find any and been away a couple of weekends so this has been first chance.

[snakeshack]

trying blueberry and cranberry gin this year,have to halve the cranberries though as they float really high

[chris]

blueberry works well, I've made that before. I have damson gin left over from a huge haul last year.