Have found the perfect 'SLOE'

[cornish seagull]

Have been searching for days and days and tonight found 'Sloe heaven'! 6lbs in 30mins but there is this one crop of sloes that are the 'mothers' of all 'SLOES' but about 15ft up! I want this Sloe so badly! What should I do?

 

[raymondbriggs]

Have been searching for days and days and tonight found 'Sloe heaven'! 6lbs in 30mins but there is this one crop of sloes that are the 'mothers' of all 'SLOES' but about 15ft up! I want this Sloe so badly! What should I do?

Two options.
(1) Get a axe
(2) My prefered option. Change your drink.Gin stinks like cheap perfume and is suited EXCLUSIVELY to old women.

 

[vegster]

Get some kind of canvas or awning underneath the tree and try and get a line near the top, try tying a washing line to a bit of 2x2 and luzzing it in to the top and hope it wedges then.... shake it like crazy. either that or try somewhere else, doubt there is much pressure on stocks, lets face it, they taste awful, you need high octane spirits and kilo's of sugar in order to take the freakin taste away.

 

[raymondbriggs]

lets face it, they taste awful, you need high octane spirits and kilo's of sugar in order to take the freakin taste away.

Another vote for dumping the old "Mothers Ruin"

 

[Lord Bracknell]

You've picked all those sloes before they are ready? Next year ... wait until late October at the earliest.

 

[cornish seagull]

Get some kind of canvas or awning underneath the tree and try and get a line near the top, try tying a washing line to a bit of 2x2 and luzzing it in to the top and hope it wedges then.... shake it like crazy. either that or try somewhere else, doubt there is much pressure on stocks, lets face it, they taste awful, you need high octane spirits and kilo's of sugar in order to take the freakin taste away.

Thanks for that and yes they do taste bloody awful but having taken early retirement and looking after the 'pennies' thought that this would be cheap option re: xmas presents! Oh do I hate myself for becoming the man I have always despised!

 

[cornish seagull]

You've picked all those sloes before they are ready? Next year ... wait until late October at the earliest.

But how do you know they are ready?

 

[Muzzy]

But how do you know they are ready?

They just need a good frost or two on them to be at their best mate.

 

[LamieRobertson]

Have been searching for days and days and tonight found 'Sloe heaven'! 6lbs in 30mins but there is this one crop of sloes that are the 'mothers' of all 'SLOES' but about 15ft up! I want this Sloe so badly! What should I do?

I have a pole loper which would do the trick

 

[cornish seagull]

They just need a good frost or two on them to be at their best mate.

We don't get many frosts down in Cornwall, last year had 4 and the first was in Jan! So I thought I would freeze them

 

[vegster]

Thanks for that and yes they do taste bloody awful but having taken early retirement and looking after the 'pennies' thought that this would be cheap option re: xmas presents! Oh do I hate myself for becoming the man I have always despised!

If you like sharp tasting things then you should get a Proper Job ....geddit ?

 

[Arkwright]

They say pick after the first frost. If not pick, prick and freeze.

With reference to height, bride a small boy to climb the tree.

 

[cornish seagull]

If you like sharp tasting things then you should get a Proper Job ....geddit ?

 

[vegster]

They say pick after the first frost. If not pick, prick and freeze.

With reference to height, bride a small boy to climb the tree.

You can't make a bride out of a small boy anymore, Social Services go potty.

 

[Notters]

the freeking thing is a myth. It's just because they tend to ripen roughly at the time of the first frost. They're ready when they're a bit squishy.

 

[pwlr1966]

Have you tried sloe whiskey, much better than gin!!!! use whiskey & honey....i love it, if you make it now its ready for Christmas but be warned LEAVE MY SLOES ALONE!!!

 

[Waynflete]

But how do you know they are ready?

Basically the later you pick them the sweeter they become.

 

[Muzzy]

We don't get many frosts down in Cornwall, last year had 4 and the first was in Jan! So I thought I would freeze them

That will work but don't forget to prick them first!

 

[Madam Cholet]

Whatever you do, don't try it with rose hips. Minging. I had been hoping for alcoholic rose hip syrup.... However, may I recommend chocolate orange vodka? Drink some of the vodka, top up bottle with chopped up chocolate orange (rougly one part vodka to one part chocolate orange, i.e. half a choc orange to half a bottle of vodka), put in dishwasher (with lid on very tight obviously) and run through dishwasher programme. Best drunk straightaway, still warm even. Y.U.M.