wimberry yumyum

[Lizzy56]

no-one will ever convince me blueberries are just as good as wimberries. I want to go picking soon. with the summer coming a touch late this year, when would you suggest would be the right time. I am north of manchester

[rustylady]

Oh lizzie, I remember them. We used to live on the edge of Dartmoor and picked them in summer.

[rustylady]

Also known as whinberries, whortleberries, and bilberries.

[hamsterqueen]

nostalgia!

Used to go and pick loads of them with my dad when I was little ..a VERY long time ago!!

edited to add: Whinberries for us

[Flummery]

My Nana, who was the soul of thrift, would have no hesitation in spending whatever it cost to buy the first wimberries in the maket in Manchester for her first wimberry pie of the season. I loved them as a kid - the pie made your tongue black (like a good red wine!)

[chris]

Never heard of them.. cool

can you not take a cutting to grow at home/on the allotment?

[Flummery]

They need really acid soil. No use here where we can't grow an azalea to save our lives!

[Birdie Wife]

And blaeberries up here. We pick in the 2nd or 3rd week in July but if you know when they flowered, you'll be picking them around 6 weeks afterwards Definitely our favourite berry too.

[sweetsaphie]

what do they look like please

[Flummery]

The are tiny black berries that grow on a very low-growing shrub - about heather height and in similar situations. It's a vaccinium. The berries are under the leaves so they need searching out.