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Let me know when the pickled jalapenos bloom...

LOL, sure will, we need to enjoy some of that on another hunt!

Mulberries are ripe around here. I don’t care for them, not tart enough. Mockingbirds love them and anywhere a bird can perch around her has a mulberry sapling sprouting underneath.

I found a white mulberry tree today next to my jobsite. I’d never had any so tried one, very bland.

My favorite wild jelly making fruit is sand plums. Lots of little green ones on the thorny rascals, hopefully they’ll make this year.

Birds also feast on them and paint your car and all the clean washing on the clothesline purple. They perch on the fence and squirt the seeds out there too, and if you don't pull the seedlings out they soon grow up and start damaging the fence. They are hard to get rid of too. I've been trying to kill one for a while - tried glyphosate on the leaves, tried cutting it off to a stump at ground level and painting the cuts with glyphosate, drilling holes and pouring glyphosate in, drilling holes and pouring petrol in, drilling holes and pouring tree killer in. Nothing seems to work on the bloody thing.

planted a thornless one here at the house this spring.

You know what? I used to pick 10-12 gallons every spring... sweat, heat, ticks, snakes and chiggers made me quit in favor of buying a big bag of frozen ones at WMT for $1.87... Nope... I can't pick them that cheap...

Not yet. Strawberries are about done. Sour cherries are beginning, as are blueberries. Wild berries around here are not much good.

I planted two varieties, Arapaho and Chester, both thornless. Arapahos are earlier, Chesters a bit better. We usually end up throwing some frozen ones out or giving them to a neighbor, but now the picker woman wants a wine making kit for her birthday.

I till, plant trees, prune, grow seedlings, mow, and build fences. She chops weeds, waters, and picks. Good system, for me anyway.

Ripping them out won't get rid of them. They just keep coming up. I decided to remove an old patch so I cut them all down with a hedge trimmer and burned all the canes right on the patch. It was quite a fire and it got everything burned down to the bare earth. It all came back up so I have a "new berry patch " now. One way we use them is to make blackberry cordial. We fill a large mason jar with ripe blackberries add some sugar and fill the jar with cheap vodka then put a cover on it. We let it season for 8 weeks turning it over every week. When it is done it is really nice and smooth. Wish I had originally planted the thorn less varieties. The canes grow to over 8 feet and reach out and grab you especially when mowing past the patch. I swear the canes reach out and actually move or so it seems. LOL

Absolutely ^^^^^^

Got a couple or three big mulberry trees in my yard in what used to be a fence line. They're a berry of last resort, kinda slimy. Help keep the birds busy and out of my good stuff. Also have a bunch of black cherries, the kind that kills cows when they eat the branches. I like those as a snack while mowing, but there's not enough meat on them for much else. They also have black knot all over them which makes growing some fruits, especially plums, pretty much impossible.

I have a mulberry tree in my orchard and the birds love them and generally leave everything else alone when they are ripe. I think they are pretty tasty and the grandkids love them. I leave a step ladder out under the tree when they turn black and the kids scarf them up. They are very prolific and fruit for well over a month.

planted some thorn less last year and getting a big handful of thumb sized everday right now

I got right at 6 gal before the county came and cut the ditches.I take them to mom and she makes jelly with them,I have about 2 1/2 gal or blue berries picked now I hope the rain will kick them off soon.Mom also makes mayhaw jelly when we can find the berries. I started picking the black berries with a grabber, it takes a lil practice but it sure saves your back.

Just got back from picking a few from my small patch. Going to explode ripening here in a few. Love making wine with them and they are great in Saturday morn waffles.

Hell it just stopped snowing last week...

lat year was one of the best crops of we've had here.....havent been back this summer to go check, but hoping it will be a good harvest.....they tend to peak around late June on my place.

will probably go spend a day gathering if the are loaded up heavy this year.
Pie porn:

WOW does that look good

Yummy!

Great idea. I'm going out tomorrow morning one last time and I'll set a quart jars worth aside and get some vodka Monday.

Ive spent two years pouring Round-up and every other herbicide known to man trying to kill the sunsabitches, horrible nasty thing they are, at first I thought it was cool having black berries and grapes growing, now I now better!