Do any of you plant and grow black raspberries, red ones, black berries, ground cherries, or any fruit like thar?

Used to have a lot of raspberries but I got tired of having to net them to try and stop the birds from eating them.

Yep, on the red raspberries, blackberries, peaches, blueberries, quinces and apples. All make good pie.

I’ve got a small orchard at the house. Blueberries, blackberries, peaches, pears, plums, muscadine, apples (experimental here), and some other stuff. We have some good pie options

raspberries

we call them drive way snacks , never made it to a pie.
I have about a 30 foot long patch of them along the fence near the drive way so you have to walk past them to get to the house.

use a little line to tie them up to the fence , they are an everbearing so from late June to early October they come in waves

as the ripen I go eat them as I pick them , if they really set heavy a bowl of them might make it in the house but then are eaten shortly

Sounds like the red ones.
Never made a pie with them, but love to eat them.
Jam or jelly , and would mix red raspberries 1/2 and 1/2 peach juice , made wonderful jelly!
Around 2011 we had a very good year of black raspberries, picked over 50 quarts of them.
Canned about 14 quarts of pie filling, and sold 12 quarts fresh picked.
Those pies were the best pies I ever ate.

Added more peaches and rhubarb.
Bet this snow does em good.

I dont know if theres a better jelly than my mom's black raspberry jelly....that was the only reason Id eat toast when I was a kid

Rubarb maybe, but this cold 10 degrees for a couple weeks , might do in a lot of peach trees.

I saved a bunch of June berry seeds. I am going to try to get them to grow this summer.

Some of the pie fixin's I grow.

I grow red and black raspberries, blackberries, mulberries, plums, peaches, apricots, nectarines, sour cherries, apples, pears, strawberries, elderberry, grapes and black walnuts. All of them make good pie. I have a tiny amount of blueberries. I should have service berries in a few years.









Keith

Are service berries and June berries the same bush?
I see what people call service berries, and have never seen birds eat them.
June berries grow as trees? Like choke cherries?

Yes, service berries and June berries are the same thing. They are native to Ohio. Like wild plums, they aren't very common anymore because wild fires are put out, or prevented and they are blocked out by larger trees from the sun. They are pretty trees, they get covered with white flowers in the Spring. Birds like them. There's similar small berries, they could be confused with.

If you haven't tried it yet, I recommend making a black walnut pie. Pecan was my favorite pie, but I think I may like black walnut better. I have a lot of small pecan trees, but it's going to be a long time before I get enough pecan nuts for a pie.

Keith

Forgot, I made a squash pie other week.
I have some odd berries I need to tend
and show you guys.
They've gone down hill the last decade.
Black and elder too. Need re-propagated

Hope you wrong on the peaches.
I did all I could.
A new apple I just threw in probably
be fine.

I'd like to try growing ground cherries. I've only tasted one, at an auction and it was good. It didn't taste like a tomato, like I expected. How do you get started in them?

Keith

We grow
Grapes
Apples
Pears
Rhubarb
Pumpkins
Sweet potatoes
And make pie from these

We have raspberry, strawberry, service berry, black berry, peach, apple, plums, pears, and nectarines. If you have property (which ours is small relatively) i dont know why you wouldn’t. We also have the luxury of picking a couple gallons on huckleberries every year

Its great to show the boys where food comes from. We can heavily. Think we did around 20 pints of various jams. The boys live dehydrated plums. Pear and apple butter for breads. Make hay while the sun is shining