Juneberries are ripe!

Marveltone · Jul 7, 2012

It's that time of year when the juneberries (Saskatoons to our Canadian friends.:thumbsup

are ripening!:cool2: While I was mowing, my wife trekked up the hill and picked enough to make a couple juneberry-rhubarb pies. What an absolute delight to come in from a hot day mowing and be served fresh pie and ice cream! :licking:

Mother Nature sure has a good supermarket!

Joe

Artisan · Jul 7, 2012

NICE!

wyeguy · Jul 8, 2012

You are a lucky man!

Steave · Jul 8, 2012

This is something new to me. Never even heard of them. I must be living under a rock!!

It looks simular to a blueberry.

forgeblast · Jul 8, 2012

What is the flavor of them? I heard that they were a bit more "seedy" then blueberrys. Its on my list of plants I would like on our property.

k0ua · Jul 8, 2012

Steave said:
This is something new to me. Never even heard of them. I must be living under a rock!!

It looks simular to a blueberry.

Amelanchier (/æməˈlænʃɪər/ am-ə-LAN-sheer),[2] also known as shadbush, shadwood or shadblow, serviceberry or sarvisberry, wild pear, juneberry, saskatoon, sugarplum or wild-plum, and chuckley pear is a genus of about 20 species of deciduous-leaved shrubs and small trees in the Rose family

I have never heard of juneberry's either, so I looked it up.. Serviceberry or Sarvisberry around here, depending if you are a towny or a countryboy. Saskatoon.. indeed.

ha ha. Always interesting to hear what other people call things.

James K0UA

Marveltone · Jul 8, 2012

forgeblast said:
What is the flavor of them? I heard that they were a bit more "seedy" then blueberrys. Its on my list of plants I would like on our property.

They taste very much like blueberries, only sweeter and bolder. If we were to make a blueberry-rhubarb pie, the rhubarb would overpower the blueberry. The juneberry can hold it's own.

Another good reason to not cut, slash and bulldoze every little shrub from your property. If you are clearing land, wait to see what everything is first, as you can find all sorts of little gems with a little patience. We prefer the "overgrown" look around our farm for this reason. Tasty treats and natural cures abound.

Juneberries seem to like growing on the edge of poplar stands, at least around here. That's where I would start looking.

Joe