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Anyone else love Wild Blackberries?

Anonymous Fri 17 Nov 2023 22:53:31 No.2668508 View View Reply Original Report

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I'm counting Dewberries, even though they're technically a close relative of Blackberries. I've managed to establish them in my backyard, to the point I filled up 11 small bell jars with berries one year.

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Anonymous Fri 17 Nov 2023 23:00:41 No.2668510 Report

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never even seen blackberries but i have around 3 kilos of frozen raspberries in my freezer
do they taste different

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Anonymous Fri 17 Nov 2023 23:09:20 No.2668516 Report

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>>2668510

It's hard to describe, but they definitely have a distinctive flavor to them. They can be quite aggressive when it comes to growing, even standard wild blackberries (in my case, Southern Dewberry and the pictured here Sawtooth Blackberry). But Southern Dewberry tastes way better than Sawtooth Blackberry in my experience, lol.

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Anonymous Fri 17 Nov 2023 23:23:57 No.2668521 Report

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>>2668516
alright sounds good i try to eat some every morning with yogurt and maybe they just dont grow where i live
i have plenty of raspberry bushes on my backyard and they also grow all around in the forests, good luck with your blackberries anon i hope they take and do well

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Anonymous Fri 17 Nov 2023 23:48:29 No.2668524 Report

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>>2668508
>Goes /out/ for the first time
>Accidentally eats belladonna berry

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Anonymous Sat 18 Nov 2023 00:06:58 No.2668531 Report

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>>2668508
I’m kind of sick of them desu; they’re incredibly invasive. Even with a huge extra freezer we get more than we can eat each season.

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Anonymous Sat 18 Nov 2023 00:34:50 No.2668536 Report

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>>2668508
My berry harvest sucked shit this year. The deer ate every single blackberry bush down to the dirt, blueberries didn't even grow, and raspberries were weak.
I did find 3 black currants in an abandoned garden and they were doing great, but I was late and most of the berries were dried up on the bush.

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Anonymous Sat 18 Nov 2023 23:53:47 No.2668873 Report

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>>2668531

Yeah they are quite aggressive, building elaborate root systems under the ground. LOT of redundancies, lot of will to survive. And I'm not talking about stuff like Himalayan or Evergreen Blackberry. Even basic wild blackberry gets aggressive.

On the plus side, because they're so aggressive a lot of stereotypical weeds struggle with them as well.

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Anonymous Sun 19 Nov 2023 01:04:59 No.2668898 Report

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Sorry to hear that.

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Anonymous Sun 19 Nov 2023 01:13:08 No.2668901 Report

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For emphasis, an example of Dewberry aggression. Note each individual berry is growing on a solitary stalk arranged in a horizontal pattern in terms of stalk spacing, as opposed to the cluster patterns (bunch of berries per cluster) you see with Blackberries.

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Anonymous Sun 19 Nov 2023 01:17:57 No.2668902 Report

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>>2668508
Yes, as a kid I would spend at peast half of my free time exploring the woods near our house and there were some huge, delicious blackberty patches in dem woods.

My house has some wild brambleberry plants near the road but I didn't even see them fruit this summer. (moved in last winter)
I attempted to plant a lot of blackberry and rasberry plants this past spring but most of them didn't make it. :(

Ideally someday i hope to have blackberries, PawPaws, Mayapples, and wild garlic growing all over my property.

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Anonymous Sun 19 Nov 2023 01:27:22 No.2668903 Report

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>>2668902
Pic of my fruitless brambleberries.

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Anonymous Sun 19 Nov 2023 01:43:18 No.2668908 Report

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One thing that does grow really well on my property is wild roses. I need to learn some good ways to make use of rose hips.

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Anonymous Sun 19 Nov 2023 13:43:40 No.2669021 Report

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i ate these once. now i feel weird and people run away from me in the woods, screaming skinwalker skinwalker!

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Anonymous Sun 19 Nov 2023 15:15:12 No.2669040 Report

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>>2668508
My girls love going dewberry picking with my wife and I every year. I still have 6 lbs in my freezer even after making the dewberry cobbler, popsicles, and ice cream.
They also picked fresh dewberries from our yard every day this season.
I'm trying to get blueberries going in my yard, since that's my personal favorite.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 19 Nov 2023 16:41:35 No.2669057 Report

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>>2668508
What's the best rubus species to plant for berries. Wineberries are the most common here but there's also black raspberries and common dewberries

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Anonymous Sun 19 Nov 2023 17:20:58 No.2669068 Report

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One of my favorite childhood memories is wandering around the edge of the woods in my neighbourhood and eating the wild blackberries the deer couldn't reach. I'd climb down a 10ft rock face into a little pit (that had a path into the lower woods) that the deer couldn't even get down so it was always full bushes. I'd go home for dinner with purple stained hands and no longer hungry for dinner when I was 9 years old.

Since then they've completely fucked the woods up in that area, fuck Canada and the chinese india niggers who run it.

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Anonymous Sat 25 Nov 2023 18:06:34 No.2671468 Report

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>>2669057

I like Southern Dewberries. They're quite aggressive so if you want LOTS of berries, they'll give a crop's worth (provided you mind having a ton of space devoured by them).

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