Gathering

[bamorin]

Service berries this morning, picked a quart of them. similar to blueberries but red in color, smaller. They have a flavor between a blueberry and a cranberry. A little light in flavor, soft texture. small seed inside with a hint of pepper.

in the next two weeks the raspberries will be ready for harvest. We'll be overrun with 'em. I "juice" a good portion of them and freeze the juice in 1 cup quantity. Add the juice from 6 lemons and 1/4 cup of sugar with a gallon of water makes wonderful raspberry lemonade. I also use the juice in my BBQ sauce. Goes great on ribs, pork loin, and chicken.

(when grilled with apple, pear, or cherry wood smoke)

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     Damn. I wish berries would grow out here in Colorado.  Raspberries will grow here-- but not easily.

     I have to collect my berries at the local grocery stores, when they are in season.

[bamorin]

Just picked a quart of black raspberries along side my neighbor. This weekend will be prime picking, but i won't be here for it. Still expect to get 3-4 gallons worth though as the season progresses.

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A quart??
Shit, we had an acre of blackberries in two separate huge patches. We'd pick 50 gallon drums of them bastards!

[frmthegrav]

fred, black raspberries are much harder to find than red raspberries or blackberries.


i guess you have sandy, acidic soil up there, marc. ive got serviceberries too, but all of the fruit have a virus and are misshapen. i havent bothered looking into it.

doc, you can always plant a few mulberry trees. there are several varieties (king white pakistan, i think) that has very large fruit. the tree gives fruit very quickly and you dont need to spray them, but the season is short and the blue jays and squirrels, if you have them up there, are a bitch.

dried mulberries are quite tasty. the black mulberries are healthier (i think they have a compound in there thats lacking in the white one), but i think the white is sweeter.

you can also grow strawberries with the dutch method. get a back of soil from the nursery, put an X in the plastic, and just plant the strawberry plant in there next spring. you wont have to worry about viruses or weeds.

[daleko]

Jun 11, 2016 18:56:36 GMT -5 DrSchadenfreude said:

     Damn. I wish berries would grow out here in Colorado.  Raspberries will grow here-- but not easily.

     I have to collect my berries at the local grocery stores, when they are in season.

Berries are relatively easy to grow in Denver. Get the right variety, in the right soil and provide good drainage. Blackberries, for one, do best in fertile, loamy soils that can hold a moderate amount of water. If your soil is primarily clay or sand, adjust your soils with compost or other organic matter to create a primarily loamy soil that drains well. Chester, Triple Crown, Wilson and Snyder blackberries will do well, as does the native Cutleaf. Shade in the hot afternoon will help.