Wild Raspberries: to mess with or not?
landwild
15 years ago
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Comments (4)"don't have the option of keeping domestics far away " I would try anyway! Plants are fairly cheap. At Indiana Berry they cost about $3.50 each. Oh you're in Canada. Nevermind! My family still says the wild raspberry jam I made this year (I used a mixture of reds and blacks) was the best jam I ever made. So even though in the city I grow domestics, i still forage the wilds, blackberries too, but they are not as good. The wild raspberries taste nothing like domestics.The wild mulberries I forage are to die for too. Thye are my favorite. Not that good just eating, OK, but in jam or syrup, wow!...See MoreWild Black Raspberry Dilemma
Comments (9)I don't think the seed carries virus. If it grew from seed (there aren't others nearby) I wouldn't worry much about it. I think the only concern would be that it could be more susceptible to and/or tolerant of disease and serve as a reservoir. But if it gets exposed to disease in its current location, your other brambles will probably also be exposed anyway. The safe planting distances are very large relative to the planting space available to most urban/suburban gardeners. I probably wouldn't worry about it. That said, at my place the wild black raspberries are soft and insipid. I don't even bother to pick them and put them into my mouth when I am out foraging. But Iike my cultivated black raspberries quite a bit for fresh eating....See Moreraspberry variety that tastes like wild
Comments (7)In that case, yes, you should try to grow them. I'm trying to grow some wild raspberries from other parts of the world. Some consider invasive, like wineberry, but also natives like thimbleberry. it doesn't grow in my area, well it does now :) At my cottage wild plants is about all i can get to grow. I don't grow those here in the city. The domesticated berries though grown yourself are excellent too. I really love the berries I get each year just about over any other fruit except currants. Blackberries are not bad either!...See MoreTransplanting Wild Black Raspberry Shrubs into Yard?
Comments (16)mxk3 I'm not certain at the moment, I'm just considering it because I remember how tasty their berries were way back when I was little and especially because I don't remember seeing so many black raspberry shrubs as I have this year; in fact for the last few years I don't recall seeing any canes. And it's not just near my house either; along the street parallel to ours (also part of our neighborhood) there's even larger groups of them that appear to be growing faster than the ones by my yard. Right now I'm thinking of just placing one cut cane of a shrub in a deepish pot and then see how it grows over the next couple of months. If it does end up growing like crazy and spreading too fast for me to manage, I'll know not to actually plant them in the yard....See Morewell_drained
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