Raspberries Galore!

[wjoerob]

Oh yeah! However many berries didn't bear last year, it's that many times 5 that are bearing this season! This is why I love living in the country. The mulberries are full, too, but the raspberries tast So-o-o good. There's an entire tree line 10-20 ft. wide full of 'em, and I don't even have to wade in very far. Do have to put long pants back on, though! God's bounty, going right into my bucket!

 

[Egon]

Yes, I recall wild raspberries as a boy. Sort of a no pay delicatessen lunch stand where one stopped, ate their fill and wandered on.

Here it's blackberries or wild cherries if I can beat the bear to them!

 

[jinman]

I love to pick blackberries, but around here, you can get your pants full of chiggers if you are not careful. We used to dust our pants with sulfur and then take a shower as soon as we got back to the house. Chiggers have a way of finding all the soft, vulnerable spots on your body.

 

[Egon]

Chiggers, what are chiggers? We just got noseeums, black flies, mosquitoes and ticks!

 

[Bird]

Of course, I've picked lots of blackberries in Texas and Oklahoma, and enough to make both jelly and blackberry syrup in Oregon once (1991), but the only place I've seen raspberries growing was in the Alaska.

 

[Highbeam]

Raspberries are a major crop here in the wet side of WA. We've always had a patch as kids and plan for them now. The new varieties are even thornless. Some folks grow grapes, and some grow raspberries. They almost look the same from a distance being in rows with wooy stalks.

Lots of bees on the raspberries though.

 

[Charlesaf3]

raspberries already?

Birds don't get em?

 

[Bird]

Joe, we visited the Granger Berry Patch, Granger, WA, (south of Yakima) on 8/2/91 and ordered a number of jars of preserves shipped to our daughters in Texas, and I noticed they had a thornless, climbing blackberry variety. That's the only place I've seen thornless blackberries, but it seems like a good idea to me. When picking blackberries from my own patch in Navarro County, TX, I usually wore a leather glove (welding gauntlet usually) on my left hand to move vines and thorns around and picked the berries with my right hand.

 

[jinman]

When picking blackberries from my own patch in Navarro County, TX, I usually wore a leather glove (welding gauntlet usually) on my left hand to move vines and thorns around and picked the berries with my right hand.

I always carry an 18" section of an old broom handle in one hand to push vines out of the way. When I did it regularly, I drilled a hole in the broom handle and put in a wrist strap in case the stick got loose. If I drop my stick in the berry vines, that's where it will stay until somebody braver than me goes to get it. All my blackberries have an abundance of fishhook thorns.

 

[Egon]

Did you pick any Salmon berries when in Alaska Bird?