What’s ready to harvest? Blackberries!
My friend Kelly gave me a cutting from her blackberries and I planted it outside the kitchen door, near the herb garden. I realize this means that someday soon I’ll have to carry a machete to hack my way through the patch into the kitchen, but with the fruit growing closer to the house, I really think it will be harvested more regularly than oh, say, the raspberries, which are currently at the very back of our yard.
These berries have a much milder taste than the raspberries but are just as lovely. I simply eat them raw, so far, but I have visions of blackberry wine someday…
They look yummy! Would you believe I’ve never seen, let alone taste, blackberries before?
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Wow, Sunita! I hope I’ve inspired you to try some.
Ciao Amy-
The berries in your hand are actually black raspberries. Blackberries are a much larger berry and don’t have that characteristic raspberry hollow centre. Duane and I like to go to Niagara in late Spring, once it starts to warm up and we gather lots of those little black raspberries on our hikes. If you want a cutting from my Oregon Thornless Blackberry, let me know in the Spring. It will take over, though, just warning you. The berries ripen to about 2″ long.
ha ha ha ….
actually i enter in this blog cuz i guess its related to blackberry phones……
bt wen i read it it sounds good and totally distracted my mind…
i like this post…. its pretty interesting
i love blackberries…
whether it is for eating or its for calling i mean blackberries phone…