PHOTO - blackberrying time

[DAVID in WALES]

Dont know if you have these in the US, or what do you call them?
These are blackberries the friut of the Bramble, which grows wild everywhere here. Great berries in a pie (with apples) but those thorns are sharp.
David

 

[El Toro]

I have the thornless blackberries. Produced very well this year. Hal

 

[Luke S]

Yep, we have them here to, even call them by the same name. I have a whole bunch of them on my farm.

 

[keh]

Hi, David,

Yes, we have those in the US. Here in the South East, they ripened about 2 1/2 months ago. Yes, we have thorns in them too.

KEH

 

[Anonymous-0]

Yes we have those in Southwest Virginia. Good for pies, cobblers and jam,
but you will get "stuck" pretty good. Brought over by the early colonists,
it is a pretty invasive species here. Enjoy your photos of the UK.

 

[Anonymous-0]

Looks like you also have some nettles there as well. Those are worse than the blackberry thorns. I wonder what idiot colonist brought those over here.

 

[glennster]

yup i got them planted on my farm, great for jams and jellies.

 

[Mike (WA)]

Yep, we have them in the northwestern US as well- variety looks a little different, but same berries. Ours are at about the same stage of ripeness as the ones in your picture. My grandson (age 2) was over last Saturday, and saw me picking some and eating- he came over, saw a vine blocking his way, and carefully pushed it down with his foot so he could get to the berries. His daddy (my son) already taught him the drill.

 

[Anonymous-0]

Always called em black raspberrys.

 

[rhouston]

there actually is a black raspberry but the ones in the pic are blackberrys


Here is what I found on how to tell the difference

Blackberries are just black raspberries. Right? Wrong! Though the two are grouped together as brambles, blackberries and raspberries are different plants. To tell them apart at harvest, check to see if the little white "core" is left on the plant when the fruit is removed. If it is, the plant is a raspberry. If the core comes off with the fruit, it is a blackberry.
Source

 

[Haywood]

Bears love them.

 

[georgeky]

Yep, lots if them in KY. Have blackberries, and 2 or 3 different kinds of raspberries as well.

 

[Anonymous-0]

Yea man, sure do like them in a cobbler or just on top a bowl off ice cream. A fellow just around the corner from us has a few rows of pick your own and they really were full this year. He had so many my kids went and picked a bunch and marked them up $1 a pint and sold them.
You have never seen as many Jap Beetles in your life as were on them.
They come in around here in July

 

[Athol Carr]

In New Zeraland they grow wild, brought in by some of our unthinking English ancestors. They are classified as a noxious weed and the local councils spend a lot of money spraying them with weed killer in riverbeds etc. They do taste nice with ice cream etc but you need to be covered up to pick them.

 

[730 virgil]

the best thing to use on nettle sting is chewing tobacco juice

 

[Matt Kane]

My wife am I picked 8 1/2 gallons of them this year and made jam. The first batch brought 90.00 and we have 75 jars left to sell. They are good in icecream, pie, jellies, and jams. Dad has acres of them that just grow wild, and its lots of good eats!

 

[jason, NW Ontario]

Raspberries also "travel". Since they only live two years (fruit in the second year), they spread out while the original canes just take up space. Blackberries are on a shrub that produce fruit annually.

 

[Jerry/MT]

David,

I used to live in western Washington and the blackberries were literally everywhere. They'd swallow whole fence rows and break the wires with their weight. I once drove a Case 310 bulldozer with a blade into a big bunch of them trying to tear them out. I moved into the row until the tracks started slipping and when I backed out, the whole bunch followed me out like a coil spring unloading!
You can't beat them for cobbler or pie but you pay a bloody price for picking them.

 

[Anonymous-0]

I was in Ky.[Taylor Co.] last week and got my fill of "Blackberry Jam" at my aunts in Lebanon Ky. She picks them at the Homestead Farm of our family and cans them much as my Grand Mothers of old did. Grannie used to make "Blackbery Pie" to die for. Seems only yesterday but has been 30 years since. We get them here in Az. from the specialtie stores such as Sprouts and Safeway ,Bashas etc. Have no idea where they come from but Mexico is real close. Rain in Ky.? Rained good last Thursday and again yesterday in Taylor and Marion Co's in Ky. What crops I saw looked good but Soybeans seem to be a little slow for this time of year. Corn and Tobbaco appear to be good but don't know about Hay Crops. Every one seems to have a lot of Hay put up from what I could Judge.My friend was cutting Corn Silage and had no complaints.

 

[Anonymous-0]

They grow wild on my farm in W.Pa. Last year I picked over 80 qts. Froze most of them. Good on top of a bowl of ice cream. They make very good wine and brandy. This year I couldn't fill 1 qt. basket. Should have picked more last year. Late spring frost took care of them and my peaches.

 

[CJ3b_jeep]

Hi David, they pop up all over the place around here, they love our sandy soil, in fact I have to brush hog along it to keep it's growth in check. Ours are ripe mostly in August and are done now. We had a lot of early rain, so ours grew like crazy this year.