Hi Jo, we have 3 big blueberry bushes in the garden, we pick on average 8-10 gal. a year put in the freezer for winter.
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Google says Wisconsin has 38 people per km2.
Sweden only 23. Same as Minnesota.
As far as I know we only have the wild growing, ground covering type. Your berries are bigger and white inside, right?
Iâll bring wife next time. Sheâs like a veasel and can fill a bucket in no time. I have more important things to think about and most berries end up in my belly doing that 
And in another month or so, itâs time for lingon berries.
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Our blueberries look just like yours, kind of purple inside, stains your hands if you squish them.
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But who else is blessed with saskatoons? On my land itâs the best year in living memory, seems to be from similar causes to what others describe, cold and late spring, nature is very upset.
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We have them here. We call them Juneberry
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I think Iâve also heard them called serviceberry? They normally appear early July here, one of the tastiest berries ever. One of the essential ingredients of the legendary pemmican, dried smoked meat, traditionally bison, and dried pounded saskatoons, mixed with fat. Enough to keep a man going long term.
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Thanks for the movies JO.
Interesting about the canoes in the lake, what is the name of the lake?
Also became curious about the temperature when you get drivable gas, where do you take it? You say 75 degrees.
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The lakeâs name is Orsen. Devides Gagnef and Borlänge kommun. I know at least one of the canoes are saved at Minnesstuggu i Gagnef.
My guage shows gas temp coming out of the cyclone. At full power open road speeds I see about 300 C. Idling for a while will make it fall back to about 100 C. Runs a little hotter with a coarse charbed and a little cooler with a tight charbed.
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JO, wonderfull videos. Makes me want to come up there for vaication. But be sure l wuldnt forget the fishing rod 
l suspect some tasty snacks in thereâŚ
Couple of things.
Are those blueberry rakes legal in Sweden? They are strictly forbiden here.
Those are some big blueberrys! Ours are smaller. But what you already hinted to our US/Canada friends, our blueberrys are nothing like the American ones. Perhaps a wery distant relative regarding taste and looks.
We dont have those orange berrys here. I can not find one extremely rare similar berry we have here on the net but it looks similar, only has one or two individual âbellysâ and is pink in colour. We call them âpebblesâ.
But l did find these!
Small blackberry like fruit, usualy grow between natural unfertilised grass fealds, allmost no thorns. I have loads of those! Plus normal wild blackberrys. The worst man eater kind with thorns that hook you up like a pig in a slaughterhouse. But taste good and give lots of food for the bees.
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BAHAHAHAHAHA
I think our equivalent is the 3" thorns from thornapple trees. you need steel plated boots walking around those.
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There are much better lakes for fishing just about everywhere. Youâre welcome any day.
This lake has no stream into, or out of it. Only swamps in both ends. Makes the fish completly isolated and perch are small. We call such perch âthousand-brothersâ.
Never heard of such a thing. 99% of our spruce and pine forest floors are covered with blueberry- and lingon berry bush. Not a problem here. Only at clear cut areas raspberry bush get invasive and has the upper hand for a while.
Thousands of forigners visit every year and pick tons of bluberries and lingon berries. I doubt anyone pick them by hand. Without the forigners there would be no jam or blueberry yougurt on the store shelfs. Swedes are too lazy to pick and sell berries (me included). Another reason why borders were opened again, right before berry season.
Cloudberries. Itâs a northern thing. I think @taitgarry00 can testify they grow in Canada as well. In a good year you can make a fortune picking and selling them.
Iâve never seen the pink ones. We donât have wild blackberries either. If planted towards a southern wall you may have berries before frost. The thorns grow well though
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I had the pleasure on stepping on one of those at Billys! Nasty stuffâŚ
I am not exhagurating. The other day l was clearing some young growth for firewod, as l cut the bush and it fell a blackberry vine stuck its claws right in my neck. They grow huge and often hang from the treetops like hanging chainsaw chains. I was stuck on the spot and if l hadnt had a friend nearby to free me things wuld get a lot more blody.
This is what l had in mind. This guy might have a point. It is weird the thorns are shaped as they are.
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Yes, here the same too. First clean the surroundings with the scythe, then a big bowl full. And more to come.
Cleaned the wallnut trees too. Gonna be a good year.
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Yes, couldberries grow all around the northern world. Sadly none here in the south, they seem to like âelf forestâ, little trees in mossy ground on permafrost, and all the way onto the arctic barren grounds. They are also found in mountains at a certain elevation.
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You know that video stated something like âit is only a problem for sheep with long hairâ. Is covid interfering with trips to the barber shops around there too? lol
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Building a garage Amish way. People here are laughing at me, but I think this is the way to go. What do you people think? Wood is 4-2 inch, and every 24 inch. Will it hold or collapse?
Put it together yesterday. Plan is to finish it next weekend. Before that we have to decide what to put on the outsideâŚ
Hookway build
Coulnot resist. Against my own rules, first finish a project before you can start another.
Steering of the boiler is still experimental but ready for cleanup and build in some case/house. This will never happen if I start another project.
Anyway, it is functional. Atmos is fed by hand. Doing a good job. As backup there is a Kovan pelletboiler. So, we wont get cold and the chief does not know where the heat is coming from. She is ok with everything as long as things donât smoke and comfort stays the same.
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Traditional studs are 2x4 16 inches on center. That was with rough cut lumber two sided so it was reall 2x3.75. Modern studs are 2x6 both for insulation space and to make up for the act that modern lumber is 0.5 under on both sides. So those 2x4 are actually 1.5x3.5. A friend back in the 80s had a house built 2x4 24 on center. It didnât fall down but a stiff breeze shakes the entire house and the snow load scares the crap out of me. I wouldnât build that light of it was me. I would use thicker lumber and more insulation.
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Ha ha, to late for me. Garage stays out of the wind, there is no snow anymore over here. Half an inch last winter and gone after a few hours. Thanks, now I am comfortable with it.
Looks good to me Joep. You have good horizontal blocking and as long as you keep the rafter spacing on top of the wall stud spacing for a continual load path, it should be fine. Did you wear a straw hat and suspenders while building that?
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