Wild black rasberries!

[300 H and H]

It's time!

The youngest daughter and I just finished picking a gallon apiece from our large front yard. It just seems these little guys like it here, we have so many. Don't know why, as they have been here as long as I have. And there are more now than 25 years ago for sure....

We make a syrup out of them for deserts and ice cream in the winter months. Just a reminder of summer when it is cold out.

Paige and I have it over ice cream on Christmas eve each year, and remember the heat of the summer, and the bugs. But we know it is well worth the effort!

Enjoy the fruits of summer,

Kirk

 

[thcri]

We have them at our cabin. Wife and I was going to go out and pick a bunch for breakfast tomorrow and then got side tracked. May have to get up early and go pick some yet. At home my early raspberries are just about done and mid summer ones will have some ready in a few days. In a week I will have so many I won't know what to do with all of them. Then I have some later summer ones also.

 

[muleman]

Mine all got browsed by the deer as they were starting. Did have a few blueberries yesterday. Will have to take a ride around on the RTV and look for some wild raspberries. Bears love them so it usually becomes a race to see who gets them first.

 

[Lia]

It all sounds delightful!

 

[JimVT]

Is that the same as black caps?

 

[300 H and H]

Jim,

Not sure about "black caps". These are like the large red rassberries, only smaller and are a dark purple in color. Lots of small seeds, but we strain them out. Critters love them as has been said, bet here we outnumber'um so we get the lions share. Oh they have spines on the runners like a rose bush, but smaller.

So tell me about your black caps.....

Regards, Kirk

 

[JimVT]

It is like your describing. I'll try to get some pictures when the berries are out. A old indian taught me the names of this stuff . They are growing in a shaded moist area on my place.
Jim

 

[thcri]

Been eating raspberries now for a few days in a row for breakfast. This morning went out and picked enough to fill 6 of the Driscoll containers along with eating as I filled them. This is my third year growing them and by far the best year. Actually my first year was better than last year. I don't know if they alternate years like apples do or what but even with feeding the neighbors some I have more than I can eat.

The third picture is the the garden that did not get planted this year. That is what happens when you get 5" of rain in two hours with no cover. So now after the 5" of rain and everything is flooded around here we move to a Heat Wave Warning for 5 Days. Supposedly the last time on record it got as hot as they are expecting was 10 years ago.

 

[muleman]

I was just out spraying weedkiller and saw some ripe red ones along the lane. I hear you on the rain. It has been dumping on you folks and totally missing us for about a month now. It is so dry when I moved my pickup the grass was nice and green under it and all around is brown. Hay fields still look like mostly stubble except what was cut early. Yard is brown but the weeds are growing. Where the sprinklers overshoot the garden the alfalfa is nice and green and the deer are coming right up by the fence to browse it.