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Subscribe I’ve found more raspberries!
When we built our house, a lot of ground was disrupted. I looked and looked, hoping for wild blackberries and raspberries, but didn’t find any. Now I’ve found both–and lots of them! There’s a huge patch of wild blackberries back behind the house, on the hillside between the house and BP-land. And I’m finding more small patches of wild raspberries all the time, up and down the driveway and even up by the house.
Over the past few years, desperate for my own berries, we’ve planted a number of bushes–blackberry (the thornless kind), blueberries, elderberries, and raspberries. I’ll get a few berries this year off those plants.
My blueberries:
I’m excited about the berries we’ve planted, and I was very excited about finding the wild blackberry patch (which is huge!), but I’m even more excited about the raspberries because I just wasn’t expecting that at all. Wild blackberries are more common around here than wild raspberries, so it feels like magic.
One of the patches of wild raspberries along the driveway:
Every day, I check on my newly-discovered magic berries.
I collect them as they ripen for fear the birds will get them if I wait till they are all ripe. I expect eventually I might get a whole cup OR SO! But that is not the point!
See, I’m not raspberry picking. I’m collecting. Raspberry picking sounds like it might involve a bucket. This just involves a little baggie. I collect raspberries, savoring each one, holding onto them like prized possessions, tucking them away at some times, at other times showing them off. Picking is about quantity.
Collecting is all about the journey……
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Also, can you reclaim blackberries that aren’t that flavorful? We have a little patch of volunteer blackberries but they are small and not sweet. I made jam one year with them and there was no blackberry flavor to it. (Yes, I can tell the difference between blackberries and raspberries in my yard; the blackberries are on the side of the house, raspberries are the plants by the fence that my sister gave to me. I meant in the wild.)
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Granny Trace
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I did get my first picking of tame black raspberries this year and I was so excited when I saw them, I stopped the mower and got a bowl and picked. I got 5 cups…..perfect for a batch of jam.
I used the li
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I was going to say that I used the liquid pectin for the first time…..I won’t do that again! It made a very soft jam….not the way I like it. I followed the directions perfectly since I was new to the product. It tastes delicious but too soft.
We have the dreaded Japanese Beetle here and I saw a couple on the raspberries. I have lost the last two year’s crop of ripe blackberries to them! I probably will this year too.
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http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/forestry/invasivetutorial/wineberry.htm
(Though I wouldn’t mind if they were!)
Wineberries have reddish hairs covering the canes, and these don’t have that. Also, these turn black when they’re fully ripe. We do have wild black raspberries in WV.
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