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Campfire Tracker
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Does talkin about huckleberry pickin remind anybody other than me of the Patrick McManus chapter about same??
Damn he's a funny guy..
She never made it past the bedroom door, what was she aiming for...?
She's gone shootin..
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Campfire 'Bwana
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I grew up picking service-berries in NoDak. We called them "juneberries", but they mostly ripened in July... Have found a few on the Kenai Peninsula.
Blueberries are all over Alaska. Up here just the low bush is all I've found, but on the Kenai, i've found high bush as well. All look/taste same as commercial, just smaller and more tart. Also more intense flavor.
The huckleberries I know I learned in Northern Idaho. Bluish-red on 3-5 foot high bushes.
I know where there is exactly one bush of same on the Kenai. Have no clue how it got there, and I ain't telling where..... : but it is in the back-of-beyond.
The three are distinctly different.
Last edited by las; 09/02/14.
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Campfire Kahuna
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Fun thread,...
I'm wondering where the delightful, and revered Saskatoon Berry fits into alla' this though.
....those that the "Hutes" didn't obliterate with their GD over picking.
GTC
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saskatoon/service/june berries are a different genus, Amelanchier....they arent even really related to each other....saskatoons are in the rose family and huckleberries/blueberries are in the heath/heather family....but like huckleberries or blueberries there are a number of species and all kinds of varieties.....
Last edited by rattler; 09/02/14.
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