Berries!
Black raspberries
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The Pocket Farmer: It's hard to know where to start with berries, they are so wonderful! We are blessed to have many wild berries to choose from here, mulberries, black raspberries, blackberries and more! Can't wait for strawberries from the garden this year, too!
I use them fresh, frozen, baked, blended, canned...they have so many uses! Apparently, you agree! The responses poured in when we asked you for your favorites! Check it out! |
Debbie Cooper Miller: Black raspberries are soooo good, but red ones are my favorite.
Lin Smith Golbiw: Cannot pick just one-strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, raspberries!
Rachael Schindeldecker: Blueberries! They freeze well, are versatile, and plentiful
Deborah Siwik: all,lmao! but black raspberries are very good for cancer fighting...:)
Jodi Collett: Raspberries! Because they're just delicious :)
Amy Page: Blackberry because my grandma made me the BEST blackberry pies.
Debbie Cooper Miller: Blackberries are kind of bitter, but I find so many of them growing wild I usually fill my freezer with bags of them for winter anyway.
Andrea Lebedeff-Myers Andie: Wild Northern California Blackberries.. And YOU KNOW WHY!!! ♥
The Minnesota Farm Woman: I would have to say raspberries, because I have lots of them in my garden and during the season, eat them every day.
This Olde Farm: Strawberries, there is nothing like locally grown strawberries :)
Tiny Acres Farm: Blueberries! also an amazing cancer-fighter and healing agent as they promote cell turnover....I'm positive they saved my daughter's life after her cancer treatment was over. ♥ Berries rock!
Laura Christenson Kemp: Mulberries, they taste wonderful and remind me of being a kid. We always had a Mulberry bush in the yard when I was growing up. We have them for such a short season. Now I have several planted in my yard for my children to enjoy as they grow up.
Stephanie Walters Dietz: Blueberries-cause we have our bees on one of the local farms and they are local and just taste great!
JesKim Farm: got to be raspberries for the jam my favorite kind
Diana Thompson-Sorric: I planted alpine strawberries because my aunt used to pick them wild and make delicious jam. They're like tiny jujubes!
William Bouldin: Strawberries get my vote. There's a little town south of SA called Poteet that puts out a ton of sweet strawberries. I love 'em. But blackberry cobbler is off-the-charts good, too.
Jennifer Kovach Roper: Black raspberries because where my grandma used to live, the bushes grew wild in the woods on her property. We ate them and helped her pick them every summer. When I get a really good batch now, I say they taste like Wisconsin and grandma's house. Ahhh, the memories :)
Nicole Butcher: love blackberries and gooseberries..
Veronica Swain: Blackberries and blueberries.
Suninthebeeches Farmstead: Mulberries
Utterly Sinful: Blackberries. Because they look lovely in champagne and taste even
better!!
Sherri Ishmael Alig: Black raspberries! I picked so many last year one day that when I shut my eyes to go to sleep all I could see was berries! Lol
Kathy Young: black berries!! remind me of my childhood!! :)
Tracy Waldrop Vance: Strawberries and wild blackberries. We have blackberries growing along the pasture fence. They are so yummy.
Raye Anne Thore: for blackberry fans...blackberry-peach preserves is unbelievably good...just sub a couple cups of berries for the same quantity of peaches..don't change the sugar amount..add berries in after peaches get soft or else they'll cook up too much
Aminah Luqman: I love all of them! Blackberries remind me of my childhood.. wandering around acres and acres of cow pasture...dodging that ol' crotchety bull.. and filling baskets with yummy berries that I would later help Nan make cobblers and jam from. ♥
Viki Hoover: I love them all but growing blackberries is the easiest for me .
Real Country Life We have a bunch of elderberries here, but black raspberries are my favorite. Never get enough though. Blackberries are plentiful too.
Laurie Wong: Fresh picked raspberries are the best !!
Lisa House: Boy, its a toss up between Salmon and Blackberries because both of them grow on my property :)
What's for Dinner? Ally's Kitchen: Oh, I have to choose??? Noooooo, but if I must blueberries b/c they're full of anti-oxidants!
Thrift Practical Living For Teens and Women and Men: All berries, a tie! The one fruit I like a lot raw are all berries. In jams I like blackberry and gooseberry and boysenberry
Gloria Davis: strawberrys and blueberries. I love to eat them raw.
Jenn Marcil: Blueberries, a superfood! I do love strawberries also!!!
Debra Ahrens: strawberries are my favorite, but raspberries fresh off the
plant rate a close second.
Bonnie Gaither: blueberries!!!
Dawn R. Connelly: blueberries, I've have bush in my garden. It has been
my "pet" project for three years, hoping this is the year I get more than 1/2 c.
;)
Sharon Baggett: Strawberries, blueberries, and mulberries. I love to freeze strawberries and add them to milk in the blender and make a frozen treat. Mulberries I used to eat right off the tree but the tree was very old and died. Haven't been able to find any since. :-(
Simi Ami: 2 yrs ago wild black raspberries grew in my backyard and I
harvested plenty, love their taste with anything and in anything, plain,
smoothie, yogurt, muffins, preserve :)
Margaret Fulmer Wolf: I love all berries...but the Blues are my fav!
Unusual Berries
(Contributed by : www.facebook.com/CommonSenseHome)
Heather Galen Crable: white raspberries are soooo good.
Rosalyn Ridlington Abbott: strawberries, raspberries, and black currents (for jelly).
:)
Deanne Williams: Strawberries and blueberries. I wouldn't say they're "unusual", but we have Mulberry trees and Serviceberry trees in our yard. At this point, we've never used them as a food source, but this year we're going to try making a few different things with them, namely jam and wine.
Linda Whitney Ellington: boysenberries and raspberries
Renee Amber Mellor: We have dewberries (wild trailing blackberries) here on the property, growing wild. I took some cuttings to start a patch close to the house. I hope it works.
Teresa Doppelmayr: Huckleberries. The best froze, jam and syrup only berry I put up last year
Robi Tyrrell: When we bought our house there was berries everywhere! We have golden berries and they are so good last summer they continued to produce well into Oct and we live in NH where the first frost is around that same time. They produced until the 3rd frost very hardy plants
Laura's Last Ditch-Vintage Kitchenwares & Small Appliances: I love berries, too! When hiking in the upper peninsula of Michigan, I found some thimbleberries. Those were amazing!
Jamie Brocco: I grow Heritage Raspberries (Red), Raspberries from a Century Farm (Red -- I bought the plants at a garage sale), Prime Jim Blackberries (flesh-eating thorns), Adams Elderberries, Johns Elderberries, Prince Consort Black Currant, Tri-Star Strawberries, Centennial Strawberries (from the same Century Farm), and a volunteer mulberry bush (so I know when to check the wild ones!). Do you
consider grapes a "berry?" -- Hardy Worden, Jupiter, & Reliance. I have a
Berry Blue Honeyberry bush (no fruit yet, the rabbits chewed its mate, Blue Belle, to the ground).
I have tried Darrow Blackberry (huge thorns and no fruit; I believe it fruits on 2nd year canes, but always froze to the ground in my borderline 4/5 garden), Black Jewel Raspberries (I've heard they are prone to disease & mine didn't do very well -- very small fruit.), and American Gooseberry (which did really well and started taking over a flower bed, so I tried to move it . . . unsuccessfully.)
Berries I am thinking of planting this year: Jostaberry (currant x gooseberry -- no thorns), Northline Serviceberry, Blue Pacific Honeyberry, Blue Velvet Honeyberry, Blue Sky Honeyberry (to pollinate Blue Belle), Aronia, and Hardy Kiwi (do those count as
berries?: Ken's Red & Ananasnaya). I would like to grow Rosa Rugosa for their fruit (high in Vitamin C), but don't know where to put another thorn bush!
Of course I plan to continue to enjoy the wild black raspberries (which the locals insist are blackberries) and wild mulberries.
I'm on a fourth of an acre in the city. I try to have a little of everything in my edible landscape, but space is at a premium! My soil has a pH of 6.8, so blueberries don't do well here :(
Jamie Brocco: unusual . . . yes, everything homegrown is unusually high in flavor & fragrance! I opened a bottle of Jupiter Grapes the other day . . . wow, they smell even better in the dead of winter!!!!
Lin Smith Golbiw: Cannot pick just one-strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, raspberries!
Rachael Schindeldecker: Blueberries! They freeze well, are versatile, and plentiful
Deborah Siwik: all,lmao! but black raspberries are very good for cancer fighting...:)
Jodi Collett: Raspberries! Because they're just delicious :)
Amy Page: Blackberry because my grandma made me the BEST blackberry pies.
Debbie Cooper Miller: Blackberries are kind of bitter, but I find so many of them growing wild I usually fill my freezer with bags of them for winter anyway.
Andrea Lebedeff-Myers Andie: Wild Northern California Blackberries.. And YOU KNOW WHY!!! ♥
The Minnesota Farm Woman: I would have to say raspberries, because I have lots of them in my garden and during the season, eat them every day.
This Olde Farm: Strawberries, there is nothing like locally grown strawberries :)
Tiny Acres Farm: Blueberries! also an amazing cancer-fighter and healing agent as they promote cell turnover....I'm positive they saved my daughter's life after her cancer treatment was over. ♥ Berries rock!
Laura Christenson Kemp: Mulberries, they taste wonderful and remind me of being a kid. We always had a Mulberry bush in the yard when I was growing up. We have them for such a short season. Now I have several planted in my yard for my children to enjoy as they grow up.
Stephanie Walters Dietz: Blueberries-cause we have our bees on one of the local farms and they are local and just taste great!
JesKim Farm: got to be raspberries for the jam my favorite kind
Diana Thompson-Sorric: I planted alpine strawberries because my aunt used to pick them wild and make delicious jam. They're like tiny jujubes!
William Bouldin: Strawberries get my vote. There's a little town south of SA called Poteet that puts out a ton of sweet strawberries. I love 'em. But blackberry cobbler is off-the-charts good, too.
Jennifer Kovach Roper: Black raspberries because where my grandma used to live, the bushes grew wild in the woods on her property. We ate them and helped her pick them every summer. When I get a really good batch now, I say they taste like Wisconsin and grandma's house. Ahhh, the memories :)
Nicole Butcher: love blackberries and gooseberries..
Veronica Swain: Blackberries and blueberries.
Suninthebeeches Farmstead: Mulberries
Utterly Sinful: Blackberries. Because they look lovely in champagne and taste even
better!!
Sherri Ishmael Alig: Black raspberries! I picked so many last year one day that when I shut my eyes to go to sleep all I could see was berries! Lol
Kathy Young: black berries!! remind me of my childhood!! :)
Tracy Waldrop Vance: Strawberries and wild blackberries. We have blackberries growing along the pasture fence. They are so yummy.
Raye Anne Thore: for blackberry fans...blackberry-peach preserves is unbelievably good...just sub a couple cups of berries for the same quantity of peaches..don't change the sugar amount..add berries in after peaches get soft or else they'll cook up too much
Aminah Luqman: I love all of them! Blackberries remind me of my childhood.. wandering around acres and acres of cow pasture...dodging that ol' crotchety bull.. and filling baskets with yummy berries that I would later help Nan make cobblers and jam from. ♥
Viki Hoover: I love them all but growing blackberries is the easiest for me .
Real Country Life We have a bunch of elderberries here, but black raspberries are my favorite. Never get enough though. Blackberries are plentiful too.
Laurie Wong: Fresh picked raspberries are the best !!
Lisa House: Boy, its a toss up between Salmon and Blackberries because both of them grow on my property :)
What's for Dinner? Ally's Kitchen: Oh, I have to choose??? Noooooo, but if I must blueberries b/c they're full of anti-oxidants!
Thrift Practical Living For Teens and Women and Men: All berries, a tie! The one fruit I like a lot raw are all berries. In jams I like blackberry and gooseberry and boysenberry
Gloria Davis: strawberrys and blueberries. I love to eat them raw.
Jenn Marcil: Blueberries, a superfood! I do love strawberries also!!!
Debra Ahrens: strawberries are my favorite, but raspberries fresh off the
plant rate a close second.
Bonnie Gaither: blueberries!!!
Dawn R. Connelly: blueberries, I've have bush in my garden. It has been
my "pet" project for three years, hoping this is the year I get more than 1/2 c.
;)
Sharon Baggett: Strawberries, blueberries, and mulberries. I love to freeze strawberries and add them to milk in the blender and make a frozen treat. Mulberries I used to eat right off the tree but the tree was very old and died. Haven't been able to find any since. :-(
Simi Ami: 2 yrs ago wild black raspberries grew in my backyard and I
harvested plenty, love their taste with anything and in anything, plain,
smoothie, yogurt, muffins, preserve :)
Margaret Fulmer Wolf: I love all berries...but the Blues are my fav!
Unusual Berries
(Contributed by : www.facebook.com/CommonSenseHome)
Heather Galen Crable: white raspberries are soooo good.
Rosalyn Ridlington Abbott: strawberries, raspberries, and black currents (for jelly).
:)
Deanne Williams: Strawberries and blueberries. I wouldn't say they're "unusual", but we have Mulberry trees and Serviceberry trees in our yard. At this point, we've never used them as a food source, but this year we're going to try making a few different things with them, namely jam and wine.
Linda Whitney Ellington: boysenberries and raspberries
Renee Amber Mellor: We have dewberries (wild trailing blackberries) here on the property, growing wild. I took some cuttings to start a patch close to the house. I hope it works.
Teresa Doppelmayr: Huckleberries. The best froze, jam and syrup only berry I put up last year
Robi Tyrrell: When we bought our house there was berries everywhere! We have golden berries and they are so good last summer they continued to produce well into Oct and we live in NH where the first frost is around that same time. They produced until the 3rd frost very hardy plants
Laura's Last Ditch-Vintage Kitchenwares & Small Appliances: I love berries, too! When hiking in the upper peninsula of Michigan, I found some thimbleberries. Those were amazing!
Jamie Brocco: I grow Heritage Raspberries (Red), Raspberries from a Century Farm (Red -- I bought the plants at a garage sale), Prime Jim Blackberries (flesh-eating thorns), Adams Elderberries, Johns Elderberries, Prince Consort Black Currant, Tri-Star Strawberries, Centennial Strawberries (from the same Century Farm), and a volunteer mulberry bush (so I know when to check the wild ones!). Do you
consider grapes a "berry?" -- Hardy Worden, Jupiter, & Reliance. I have a
Berry Blue Honeyberry bush (no fruit yet, the rabbits chewed its mate, Blue Belle, to the ground).
I have tried Darrow Blackberry (huge thorns and no fruit; I believe it fruits on 2nd year canes, but always froze to the ground in my borderline 4/5 garden), Black Jewel Raspberries (I've heard they are prone to disease & mine didn't do very well -- very small fruit.), and American Gooseberry (which did really well and started taking over a flower bed, so I tried to move it . . . unsuccessfully.)
Berries I am thinking of planting this year: Jostaberry (currant x gooseberry -- no thorns), Northline Serviceberry, Blue Pacific Honeyberry, Blue Velvet Honeyberry, Blue Sky Honeyberry (to pollinate Blue Belle), Aronia, and Hardy Kiwi (do those count as
berries?: Ken's Red & Ananasnaya). I would like to grow Rosa Rugosa for their fruit (high in Vitamin C), but don't know where to put another thorn bush!
Of course I plan to continue to enjoy the wild black raspberries (which the locals insist are blackberries) and wild mulberries.
I'm on a fourth of an acre in the city. I try to have a little of everything in my edible landscape, but space is at a premium! My soil has a pH of 6.8, so blueberries don't do well here :(
Jamie Brocco: unusual . . . yes, everything homegrown is unusually high in flavor & fragrance! I opened a bottle of Jupiter Grapes the other day . . . wow, they smell even better in the dead of winter!!!!
