You normally pick after the first frost but they look like being ready early this year. They will never taste nice Two Sheds! They are very astringent. Pick when they start to feel slightly soft. You can very easily spot sloes in the spring. They flower (white flowers looking a bit like may blossom) on bare wood. Blackthorn is their other name and they are spiky and black but with lovely white frothy flowers - the leaves follow later. Go out for a walk, take a map and mark the spot! That's how we used to do it.
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