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Wild blackberries #7310822
07/21/21 03:33 PM
07/21/21 03:33 PM
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Oregon
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They're starting to ripen now in western Oregon. Invasive Himalayas. The awful things sprout up everywhere but they sure beat the heck out of the cultivated ones for flavor. My wife and I pick them to sell at our farmers' market booth on Saturdays.
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Re: Wild blackberries [Re: beaverpeeler] #7310824
07/21/21 03:35 PM
07/21/21 03:35 PM
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Greene County,Virginia
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Beautiful fruit.


wanna be goat farmer.
Re: Wild blackberries [Re: beaverpeeler] #7310831
07/21/21 03:40 PM
07/21/21 03:40 PM
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perry co.Pa
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Nice. Ours are about as ripe as yours are.

Re: Wild blackberries [Re: beaverpeeler] #7310866
07/21/21 04:37 PM
07/21/21 04:37 PM
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Wyoming County Pa.
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Ours are just starting. I just had to stop brush hogging today to try a few.

Re: Wild blackberries [Re: beaverpeeler] #7310891
07/21/21 05:41 PM
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Oregon
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What kind do you have in Pennsylvania? Are they Himalayas?


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Re: Wild blackberries [Re: beaverpeeler] #7310893
07/21/21 05:44 PM
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caldwell id
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Just picked 3 quarts yesterday. I like them but they have more seeds than other berries.

Re: Wild blackberries [Re: beaverpeeler] #7310909
07/21/21 06:15 PM
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Rodney,Ohio
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Wild definitely has a stronger flavor. I have 5 thornless apache that I'm getting a pint every day off of, much lighter flavor

Re: Wild blackberries [Re: beaverpeeler] #7310923
07/21/21 06:44 PM
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I wished I could get them growing here but our winters are a bit tuff on them ,


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Re: Wild blackberries [Re: beaverpeeler] #7310925
07/21/21 06:47 PM
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Williamsport, Pa.
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Ours are done but we had a lot of them this year......jk


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Re: Wild blackberries [Re: beaverpeeler] #7310954
07/21/21 07:21 PM
07/21/21 07:21 PM
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Wyoming County Pa.
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Originally Posted by beaverpeeler
What kind do you have in Pennsylvania? Are they Himalayas?

I have no idea but they are good

Re: Wild blackberries [Re: beaverpeeler] #7310979
07/21/21 08:13 PM
07/21/21 08:13 PM
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Tennessee
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I have a few jars of jam made of them and eat a hand full or five every time I take the dog out for a walk


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Re: Wild blackberries [Re: beaverpeeler] #7310984
07/21/21 08:19 PM
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Carl, they look yummy!! Wish you could send me some. Probably be mush when they got here.


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Re: Wild blackberries [Re: beaverpeeler] #7311097
07/21/21 10:49 PM
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Wish our wild black berries looked like that. They are small and not real sweet. Wasn't a good year for berries at all around here. I couldn't find enough good ones for even a cobbler.


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Re: Wild blackberries [Re: beaverpeeler] #7311099
07/21/21 10:56 PM
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Any chiggers living among them?

Re: Wild blackberries [Re: beaverpeeler] #7311100
07/21/21 10:56 PM
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It's prolly a good thing I don't go to your farmers market- you'd need a bigger truck! grin


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Re: Wild blackberries [Re: charles] #7311143
07/22/21 12:30 AM
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Originally Posted by charles
Any chiggers living among them?

What are chiggers -- we don't have any of those here.

Re: Wild blackberries [Re: H2ORat] #7311145
07/22/21 12:36 AM
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fayette,al.
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Originally Posted by H2ORat
Originally Posted by charles
Any chiggers living among them?

What are chiggers -- we don't have any of those here.

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Re: Wild blackberries [Re: beaverpeeler] #7311172
07/22/21 02:17 AM
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Carl,
We have never in my neck of the woods considered Himalayas or evergreens to be wild blackberries. Wild blackberries is the name reserved for our native variety, never invasives.
The natives are just getting ripe here. Himalayas are still in bloom here. Everything is late this year. It has been dry but except for that one hot spell it has been one of the coolest summers I can remember so far. Even had to fire the heating stove up once this July.
Cascade berries are ripe though. They are pretty close to wild blackberries and they produce enough for me. We did use to pick Himalayas for jelly though when I was a kid. Never considered them worthy of pie.

Re: Wild blackberries [Re: beaverpeeler] #7311194
07/22/21 05:57 AM
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Got ‘em here and can’t stop them. They make better wine than cobblers because of the seeds. lol


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Re: Wild blackberries [Re: beaverpeeler] #7311235
07/22/21 07:19 AM
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I've picked nearly 30# of blackberries this year, and still have more on the vine. I propagate the thornless (triple crown and apache) and even some of the better native ones. We have made blackberry jam, and I just started a 5gal batch of blackberry wine. Still have plenty for cobbler and other stuff. My goal is to build a solid hedge row of berry plants 150yds long, in hopes of harvesting 100# annually.

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