I bought some today having never ate them before, they are really bland and not that I was expecting. Think I'll stick to Strawberries in future.

What do you make of them?

I don't know where you bought them,but supermarket rubbish will taste nasty. If they don't smell,don't buy!

Decent blueberries are delicious.

The Coop

ah. Try growing your own. Much nicer. I love picking fresh off the bush,still warmed from the kiss of the sun.

I wish I could but I'd be too lazy to maintain growing anything lol

They tend to look after themselves. I get strawberries year after year and I don't do much with them apart from weed around them.

I used to have raspberries on Christmas Day from the garden.

The organic blueberries I'm buying from Sainsburys at the moment are plump, succulent and packed to bursting with flavour and colour.

Can't beat a homemade blueberry pie. There's no way you should find a blueberry pie bland, on the contrary, it's a taste explosion.

Depends on whether they are ripe or not, the bigger ones are bland and tasteless and have been picked too late, the smaller ones are juicy and tasty.

The blueberries I buy are delicious. You can get them for £1 in Aldi, and they're always ripe and juicy. I like blueberries sprinkled on porridge.

I bought a punnet from ASDA the other week and they weren't that nice. They were better when I cooked them for a sauce.
I think I prefer them dried.

darn it I was going to buy the reduced strawberry bulbs the other day as well. Wish I had nowt hat I know they are easy.

This should go in the other thread but does anyone know the brand of strawberries I need to grow in hanging basket please?

I love them

I've never seen a bulb, only small young plants. You can use any type in a hanging basket though, I have elsanta and a pink flowered one growing this year in containers. The only thing is strawberries produce long shoots that plant themselves into the ground and thats how they last year after year, they cant root runners in a hanging basket so they will die off over the winter.
The plants that do survive need protection from frost, I had 2 that were thriving in pots (I had planted the runners in a pot beside the mother plant until the snow last winter. They limped through the winter but were dead by spring
Studulike you must have a sheltered garden in a mild part-I'm very envious. I agree you can nearly taste the vitamins in very fresh berries. This is a bumper year for them by all accounts.


Blueberry muffins are the biz:

Sift 13 0zs of plain flour, 1 tablespoon baking powder into a bowl and stir in 6 ozs soft brown sugar.
Melt 4 ozs butter in a bowl, let it cool slightly and beat in 2 eggs, 9 fl ozs of natural yoghurt, fold into the flour bowl gently (lumps dont matter)and add a little milk if the mix is too stiff. Fold in 7 ozs of blueberries .
This makes about 18 muffins. I put a final sprinkle of brown sugar on top before baking as it gives a lovely crunch. Bake for about 25-30 mins at 190 (fan oven) on the middle shelf.

I've given up fry-ups at the week-end and these are my treat instead. They freeze well too.