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I've picked about two gallons as of this morning. Kinda hard work, all that bending over and fighting the wasps for the 'berries, feel like a messican after I'm through. I hit it right after sunrise to beat the heat and the insects.

I hope to.

I brew blackberry mead!

Yummy

Won’t be ripe here until another month.

I'm interested - how do you make the mead and how much blackberries do you use (quarts?)?

Still green here,

I'll get a few but I ain't gonna swim through chiggers. I've got some easy ones next to a couple of powerline poles, I can drive the jeep right up beside and pick. 😄

If I get a quart, that will be a 'one and done' trip.

A few red ones here. More than I’ve had so far. Trying to get them to produce better. Interested in the mead too. Been making straight blkberry wine.

We have about three weeks before they are ready. The rule at the house is, I get a cobbler if I’m willing to pick them. I get a cobbler or two every year.

I just ripped out a huge blackberry patch.

Fuggin’ things are worse than kudzu.

Never seen a blackberry.

Wonder if they would grow here?

Over this way there ain’t many places they won’t grow. Thorny sonofabitch takes over quick.

I think they have them on the west side.


Might should look into this.



They sound like a weed!

They can climb like an ivy. Long shoots that can get bigger around than your thumb. Lots of big thorns.

I had them climbing 15+ feet over some cedars.

Berries can be uber sweet but pack a schit ton of tiny seeds. I often strain them if I make jam. Otherwise your picking your teeth for hours.

Are they the ones that look like dark raspberries?

Them thar aliens love berries.

Big purplish black berry.

When ripe, much sweeter than a raspberry.

Ours out here are called Himalayan blackberries.

Not sure what other kinds there are or if they cause as much blood loss.

A delicious, Tick, Chigger, and snake filled weed! I think blackberry brambles would grow on the moon. I’ve seen them survive fire, flood, freeze, and drought and keep on trucking. Most every old homestead around here has a bramble out behind the barn, some where a house hasn’t stood in 75 years.

I have a big patch in an abandoned railroad bed down south of town that I guess nobody else knows about. Can’t see it from the road and I’ve never seen another soul there, not so much as a tire track even. It’s probably 3 acres or so and we usually get a few gallons off of it. Another two weeks or so and they’ll be about ready, berries are huge this year with all the rain.

We make lots of jam and cobbler with them. I like to put sugar over a bowl full and leave them in the fridge overnight, the next day ladle the berries and syrup over some vanilla ice cream.

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I like to snack on them on my way to the mail box but I'd be happy if I never saw another Black Berry bush

Eraser AND 2 4 D (combined) solves the problem. Period.

Alien Kudzu is a plant-like, fungus-like, or otherwise predominantly sessile alien life form that infests a planet's environment and begins reproducing itself rapidly. It is used in Terra forming planets.