How to wash blackberries

Blackberries can be picked in the summer months and often have lots of worms and creepy crawies in them. So how I suggest you wash them is. Pput the blackberries in a bowl and swill them out a couple of times. This gets rid of the worst of the foreign bodies. I then leave the blackberries in the bowl covered with clean cold water. This encourages all sorts of things to come to the top, the bits and pieces that come to the top are scooped out and thrown away. After half an hour to an hour of soaking I start to use a colander or sieve. Now tip the blackberries and water into the colander or sieve and now rinse the fruit under a running tap. Then pour the drained blackberries back into the bowl and add clean water. Do this at least half a dozen times going from bowl to colander and back to bowl. Once you're happy they are cleaned you can use them or freeze them ready for when you make some wine. Another use for blackberries is making jam which tastes wonderful, and this is a good use of a pound or two of blackberries.