U Pick Fun!
Nothing like picking your own! Check out these pictures from our
adventures. Also you can visit the website that shows you when each is
ready to pick.
http://www.travel-in-wa.com/DISTINCTLY/grow_west_sched.html
Raspberries
Mid June - Mid August
The only thing you have to watch for is picking too much! After a
year, we still had some in the freezer! Anybody got some good raspberry
recipes?
Do you think we got enough? Just can't stop picking 'em!
These are BIG raspberries!
Blueberries
Mid July - September
Lots of fun to pick, and with the right recipe, it's great! Ask Judy
for her special blueberry recipe that we use on pancakes, mmm! And fresh
blueberry muffins are always a hit. However, the best thing is putting
Judy's blueberries over vanilla ice cream!
Blueberry time!
The blueberry gang.
Enough for a year's worth of baking!
Look closely, among the blueberries, there's a robin!
Blackberries
Summer
What is really a "pest plant" has some nice berries on
them. They grow fast with huge thorns and are found everywhere.
There are businesses that thrive on removing those bushes from your property!
Berries growing wild on the side of the bike trail.
Pumpkins
October
Do you have any idea how long pumpkins last up here? We throw
them away along with the Christmas tree, and it still looks good! We've
yet to carve one, we usually just leave them as is as decoration.
They use hay bales and stalks of corn along with the pumpkins as
decorations around here. Pretty neat and gives a real country type of
feel during the Fall.
This pumpkin patch looks pretty sincere, maybe the Great Pumpkin will rise
out of this patch to deliver toys to all good boys and girls like Linus
believes.
Dad, can you get this one for us?
Corn
Mid August - October
This is one of those U-picks that goes fast! All those grocery bags
you seen in the van? All gone in less than a month! After the
first time, we got a lesson on how to pick the corn. You have to look
for the "flags" on the ears that tell you it's ripe and ready to
pick. Very sweet and good to eat right off the stalk. These
are from our favorite farm "Fall City Farms".
We get our pumpkins, corn and even garlic from there. Once we got
some honey when they had a display and even learned some things about honey
from a bee keeper.
7 overflowing grocery bags later we head to the barn to pay for our booty.
Christmas Trees
December of course!
This year (2000) there wasn't snow, but the first year we picked them
(1998), the was snow everywhere! It's such a thrill to go through the
snow and find that perfect tree! Then go and warm up by the fire outside
and have some hot cocoa and cookies at the barn. Just like we all
imagined it would be.
Any size grand fir tree for $25, can't beat that price with a stick!
And we're pretty sure they are fresh... We get ours from Busy Bee Farms
up north in Monroe.
Found a good one!
Claire cutting down our tree.
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