Spinach Tiger

Big Fat Healthy Food

  • Home
  • About
  • Recipe Index
    • By Ingredient
    • By Category
  • Keto Home Bakery
  • Shop My Favorite Things
  • Keto Bake Class
  • Contact

Home » Fruit Recipes » Seven Tips for Picking Blueberries and How To Store Them

Seven Tips for Picking Blueberries and How To Store Them

July 13, 2017 by Angela Roberts 5 Comments

As an Amazon Associate and member of other affiliate programs, I earn from qualifying purchases.
5Shares

Happiness in the summer is living next to a blueberry farm. It’s hard to beat sweet blueberries at $2.50 a pound, knowing your hands are the only hands the berries have known.

Sadly, Saturday, August 7 is the last day for picking. Golden Bell Blueberry Farm, located in Franklin, Tennessee will open at 7:00 a.m and close at noon for the summer.

Arrive early, and plan to spend one to two hours picking away. They will even be kind enough to give you a recipe for blueberry pie.

The drive into the farm is lovely.

The blueberry bushes are tall and give good shade for picking in this intense heat wave we are having.

The blueberries are very sweet, nothing like you typically get in the grocery store. Blueberries are super healthy. In fact, they are the highest anti-oxidant fruit there is.

I live on the other side of that big house. My house is a bit smaller, but we still get to benefit from surrounding Tennessee hills and many farms as neighbors.

Tips for Picking Blueberries

Seven Tips for Picking Blueberries

  1. Go early, before the groups arrive. I swear I saw Snow White and her Seven Dwarfs hogging the berries.
  2. Bring a ladder or a really tall person. The best berries are often hiding in huge clusters at the top.
  3. Wear glasses, (sunglasses will do), for if you get competitive like me, you will get careless and a branch can swipe you in the eye.
  4. Be patient. Pick the good berries, which are blue and big. Leave the red ones on the vine for ripening. The bigger the sweeter. They should pick off easily and still be firm, but not hard.
  5. Go to the end of bushes, as most people get stuck right in the beginning of the bushes. Look for bushes with lots of clusters of berries and stay one one bush.
  6. Ask if the bushes have been sprayed with pesticide. The temptation to eat them on the spot is too good.
  7. Watch out for snakes low on ground waiting for birds, although my husband assured me there would be no snakes, he did find a few inch worms in his hair (ugh).

Tips for Storing/Freezing

  1. To freeze, wash first. Spread out on tray to dry. I use a salad spinner.  Or, you can put on paper towels to dry.
  2. Freeze on shallow trays for one to two hours, before placing in zip lock bags. It’s okay if they touch, as long as you get out within a few hours. Pre-freezing this way prevents sticking in the plastic bags.
  3. If not freezing, store in shallow containers, not deep containers, so as to not bruise. Pick off stems, do not wash, until ready to use.

Spinach Tiger has so many berry recipes.  Go Here for all the Blueberry recipes.

These are mini pies baked in muffin tins.

This has been a summer tradition for years. We come right home and bake a pie.

Tips for PIcking Blueberries

This blueberry crumb pie was one of our best recipes. I remember this day as one of the best days of summer.

PIcking Blueberries with Blueberry Crumb Pie Recipe from Spinach tiger

Another year we made blueberry muffiins with cinnamon crumb topping. 

One year we did a strawberry blueberry pie.

Tips for Picking Blueberries

 

 

5Shares

Filed Under: Fruit Recipes, Summer Recipes Tagged With: blueberries, blueberry

« Lemon Dijon Roasted Purple Potatoes
Gluten Free Whole Grain Bread: Artisan Bread with Video »

 

Please follow me on instagram. If you make this recipe,  please tag me #spinachtiger.

If you love this recipe, please give it five stars. It means a lot. xoxo

As an Amazon Associate and member of other affiliate programs, I earn from qualifying purchases.

Comments

  1. Bev says

    July 14, 2017 at 10:49 am

    If you wash them first then freeze the skins will be tough

    Reply

Trackbacks

  1. Family Fun in Nashville - Where to Go, What to Do says:
    May 13, 2018 at 10:41 am

    […] Favorite pick farm, Golden Bell Blueberry Farm is right next door to us. We go every summer, and here is a post I wrote with all the picking tips you need to know, including how to store […]

    Reply
  2. Mini Pie Recipes Baked in Muffin Tins will Make your Next Party Sing says:
    September 22, 2017 at 1:43 pm

    […] Next week, I’ll be picking my own blueberries at a farm right next door to me. It’s a yearly tradition, and if you do that too, I wrote about a lot of blueberry picking tips here. […]

    Reply
  3. World's Best Blueberry Crumb Pie Recipe - Spinach Tiger says:
    July 13, 2016 at 2:03 pm

    […] we look forward to. We picked over five pounds today, and I’ve written some tips here for how to have a successful blueberry picking and how to store […]

    Reply
  4. Blueberry Hand Pie with Spelt Pie Crust says:
    June 22, 2012 at 4:14 pm

    […] down the dirt road with 12 pounds of blueberries.   We both had our ladders as I suggested in this post  which gives tips for picking blueberries, but she is a “get it done” person, and, I […]

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Recipe Rating






Twitter Facebook  pinterest Spinach Tiger on Instagram Spinach Tiger on YouTube

Popular Posts

Keto German Chocolate Cake
Keto Raspberry White Chocolate Bundt Cake
Maple Pecan Squares, Low Carb
New York Strip Steak

Butcher Box

Spinach Tiger Keto Bakery

Copyright © 2021 SpinachTiger.com · Privacy Policy