Me and my sweet little Colombiana picked 7 flats of these today on the farm. They grow wild all over the place. In my opinion the domesticated ones just can't compete for flavor.

Are those domestic Himalayas (thornless) or the feral variety? Are you saying the domestic taste better than the feral?

Thy come on a little later up here in Washington, just starting to see a few ripe ones.
My first exposure to them was in the Corvallis area of Oregon in the late 60's, they weren't as common then in the Puget Sound area of Washington as they are now. Now they are a real nuisance, Any open land that is not grazed pasture, or timber land, is being completely taken over by Himalaya blackberries. It's a real problem. Invasives suck.

We're a month and a half past that. And I agree the wild ones back home in Alabama absolutely taste better with smaller seeds than domestic.

And I say not out of nostalgia as I can't find any Georgia berries much bigger than a pea and they're mostly dry. Back home the better patches had berries as big as the end of your thumb with a good balance of sweet to tart. Much more nuanced than the mostly sweet but one note bland domestics that dad grows.

I've often wondered how those wild river bottom berries would respond to being transplanted to good garden soil and given some tlc.

Best berry there is. !!!
Rhubarb is my favorite pie …… but blackberry pie is my favorite too

have been spending several mornings out in the woods eradicating blackberry patches.
At least now as they are getting ripe I get a snack before they are gone on to the burn pile.

Picked many gallons as a kid. Got a dollar a quart from the older ladies in the community. That was after filling Dad's order of three gallons for jelly but he was second in line after granny. She made me blackberry cobbler and filling her freezer was my first priority.

Nice. Blackberries are my favorite. I have propagated and transplanted an 80' row. This spring, I expanded that to a full 160' row of thornless blackberries. Our wild berries were a bust this year.

Picked 20 pounds or so right quick last year and made a fiver of wild blackberry wine. This year both black raspberries and blackberries were nearly nonexistent. Too dry.

The Wife is juicing 3 gallons of'em right now.

The big issue for me besides the fact that blackberries want to take over in all my other perennial crops, is that they attract the vinegar flies in large volumes and then release millions more of the fruit invaders into my late soft fruits.

However my wife did sell over $400 worth of them in yesterday's farmers market....so she's happy.

Those are not wild blackberries. Feral domestics. They don't hold a candle to Rubus ursinus, the real wild blackberries of the PNW.

Long long ago 35 years or so, was in Seattle first week of September.
Went for a walk and found giant blackberries everywhere.
Picked and ate until satisfied. Yum!

You're right Bruce. The trailing blackberries which have both female and male plants are truly devine but produce very small amounts of fruit in comparison to the himalayas. The himalayas were brought over in the 1880's and have become the scourge of the northwest. The real problem was when starlings came in and spread seed everywhere. On our farm there was just a few localized patches. Now it springs up everywhere that you don't cultivate for a year.

Leave a field fallow for 2-3 years? Guaranteed to be blanketed in himalayas by then. The thorns on those things have punctured countless bicycle tire tubes over the last few years.

I call those little "trailing blackberries" mountain blackberries, the past I heard, a few years ago, that the going prices was $60 a gallon; who knows what it is now. Guys sell them to high-end restaurants in Seattle.
Absolutely the best pies ever made; even better than wild huckleberries.

You may not know it Waggler but the heralded "Marionberry" developed in Oregon has trailing blackberry genes in its breeding. Probably why it's so darn good.

As I mentioned in the past, I have a row of Cascade berries which are another hybrid I believe. I prefer them over Marion berries, but true wild black berries are the best. Used to pick lots of them but changes in forest management have not been kind. Also, it seemed like a lot of deer or mountain beaver spelled good picking. They provided needed pruning. Mountain beavers are gone, and deer are scarce now.
I usually have my Cascades which are enough but this year a bear got them all.
We used to make jelly out of the Himalayas, not fit for pie.
Been so cold this year everything is late by about 3 weeks. I had frost on the 21st of June.

I don't believe I've ever tried "Cascade" black berry. I looked it up and it sounds interesting....Raintree nursery sells starts at $14 each. Not something a farmer is going to pay.

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I have a friend in Wrangell AK who raises Cascades with success on the south side of his house.