Anyone picking wild blackberries?
Sheik Paladin
7 years ago
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Wild blackberries in NE GA
Comments (1)I picked some yesterday in a wild area. They were so good....See MoreUsing wild blackberries
Comments (9)These food mils can really do a great job on tomatoes for a seedless sauce. I like thick sauces and don't care to boil them down too much. Instead, I cut tomatoes on quarters and dig out most of the seeds and liquid, then run them through the Villaware/Roma strainer with the standard screen it comes with. Usually I end up with a nice thick tomato sauce even before its cooked. The last time I grew 200 tomato plants, which were mostly plum types, I had quite batch or sauce, and use the optional moto unit to help with strainin. I had done almost 2 bushels of tomatoes in less than an hour, and that included cutting ad digging out the liquid and some seeds. The skins are strained out in the machine....See MoreWild Blackberries
Comments (11)Jessaka, I have grown cultivated blackberries in the traditional manner, with careful pruning of the canes after bearing, etc., and have had great results over the years. I always give them lots of compost and/or manure. We have tons of wild blackberries here on our land, growing in everything from full sun to dappled shade to almost full shade. Those that grow in full sun produce a great crop and those that get at least a half-day of sun or a full day of dappled shade produce a so-so crop. The ones in the full shade may flower, but seldom produce any berries. I tend to leave the native berries on the plants for the wild critters since we have so much wildlife on our land. Native berries tend to be really small in comparison to the cultivated ones. If you want a native type of understory plant that will produce berries for the birds, there are many others that are more suited to grow in the shade of the trees. It might be less frustrating for you to purchase and plant a few cultivated berries in full or nearly-full sun as it will be really hard to ever get a crop from mostly shaded native berries. This is true whether you want the berries for yourself and your family, or if you wish to leave the harvest on the plants for the birds to ear. Oh, and out here in the rural boonies where we live, the native berry brambles tend to mostly serve as 'shelter' for numerous (often poisonous) snakes. As near as I can tell, serving as shelter for snakes and food for the birds are their main purpose here on our land. The white flowers and the dark green leaves do look beautiful in the spring time. Dawn...See MoreDe-worming wild blackberries
Comments (5)Hold the fort. Going on 8 years now, the SWD fruit fly (spotted-wing drosophila) has been a concern in caneberries over much of the U.S. They can be found in cultivated garden berries and in wild berries. https://blogs.cornell.edu/swd1/2014/05/21/where-is-swd-found/ Soaking berries to drive out larva is done with salt water. Freezing them will trap them internally in the fruit except for those who crawled to the surface before being frozen. They will likely be dead. Store-bought berries should be fine. Farmer's market organic berries are suspect. But lucky_p is on to something. After handling that many berries, you would have noticed the little sub-rice-sized worms. Did your sons notice any little fruit flies while picking? I would thaw a few ounces and mash them, looking for worms; you might be fine after all. If worms are present, the only way I know to remove them is using a low-speed augur-type juicer. It will remove the skins, seeds, and nearly all the worms and leave you with a clean puree. Other methods would be very tedious. Rinsing or soaking blackberries dilutes the product by adding water and removing juice....See MoreAmyinOwasso/zone 6b
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