wild blackberries

[jamesthomas]

Did you have ground cherries also? We didn't have many but they were sure good. Same for dewberry.

No ground cherries. I'm not much for cobbler or pie, the best way is to put a handful or 2 in a bowl and give them a good sprinkle of sugar on them.

 

[tenngun]

Sounds good, I've made that sort of topping over flat cakes

 

[Cruzatte]

I grew up in Oregon, the Willamette Valley, to be precise. Blackberries I learned in later years are considered by botanists to be an exotic infestation, since blackberries are not native to the area. They have no natural competitors, and grow wild over any disturbed or neglected patch of ground, along road sides, even city parks. I remember walking home from school in early September and picking many on my way home. Nice thing about the Pacific North West is there are no chiggers to contend with.

I'd go home, get a big Tupperware bowl, or anything else, go back to the berry patch, fill the container, go back home, put some on ice cream, maybe next morning (if there were any left) have 'em on my cereal.

They're cultivated here in Kansas. And they rather taste like it, too; not as sweet or pungent as the blackberries in Oregon. Oh yeah, and if I brought in a very large harvest, I could usually talk Mom into making blackberry pie. Man, I'm getting homesick again.

 

[sidelock]

Missed getting mine this year. Will miss them this winter. NEXT YEAR ?

 

[R.C.BINGAMAN]

Wine, my dad makes the best black berry wine I ever drank.An Appalichian Hunter

 

[Crewdawg445]

At my previous job I found a wild berry plant behind the building in a dense woods patch. I'd go back and pick a bunch for an occasional snack. Never shared my bounty either!

 

[sidelock]

I missed picking last summer due to wildfires which burned about 125,000 acres in the area at picking time. I think the fire missed them though and they should be back next year.

 

[coloradoclyde]

They grow in my back yard as thick as dandelions....but this last summer was a bad year.....no fruit at all.....plenty of raspberries and blackcaps though .....

 

[sidelock]

A very hard cold killed my raspberries early last fall, so no berries for me this year. Raspberries came back up from the stumps------ so hoping for next year.