This Yucca plant or "Spanish Dagger" as we called it when we were kids is beginning to send out its bloom. It is always one of the first thing to bloom in the brush country.
The "agarita" is also blooming. You might know that it puts on tiny fruit that is quite sweet. My grandmother's sister made agarita jelley. This took some real work I'm told. It was told that they spread a "wagon sheet" or tarp around the bottom of the bush and then beat it with a broom which made the ripe red fruit fall to the ground to be collected.
This Yucca plant or "Spanish Dagger" as we called it when we were kids is beginning to send out its bloom. It is always one of the first thing to bloom in the brush country.
The "agarita" is also blooming. You might know that it puts on tiny fruit that is quite sweet. My grandmother's sister made agarita jelley. This took some real work I'm told. It was told that they spread a "wagon sheet" or tarp around the bottom of the bush and then beat it with a broom which made the ripe red fruit fall to the ground to be collected.
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We use to make jelly from the agarita berries. Picking them can be tedious and a blanket or tarp helps. It's a great jelly... a little citrus taste and it takes a bunch to make a little.
The best was the wine the old Germans around Comfort made.
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