Gardening

[Tony Page]

We inherited berry bushes from my next door neighbor. His berry bushes continually sent out runners tried to take over some of our beds, but we were diligent enough to cut most of them back. One Runner started a bush and was in good location so we left it, we believe it's a BlackBerry. Every year my family has been picking berries off this bush, they tell me they are delicious. Our neighbor passed, we have a new neighbor now and he pulled out all the berry bushes, so no more runners. I'm glad we have this one bush as a reminder of my prior neighbor, he was a good neighbor and fellow gardener.

 

[Mary Stetler]

We inherited berry bushes from my next door neighbor. His berry bushes continually sent out runners tried to take over some of our beds, but we were diligent enough to cut most of them back. One Runner started a bush and was in good location so we left it, we believe it's a BlackBerry. Every year my family has been picking berries off this bush, they tell me they are delicious. Our neighbor passed, we have a new neighbor now and he pulled out all the berry bushes, so no more runners. I'm glad we have this one bush as a reminder of my prior neighbor, he was a good neighbor and fellow gardener.

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They look like blackberries to me. I got thornless blackberries a few years ago. They are not as prolific as the kind with thorns but both are quite yummy.

 

[Beth Gallagher]

We inherited berry bushes from my next door neighbor. His berry bushes continually sent out runners tried to take over some of our beds, but we were diligent enough to cut most of them back. One Runner started a bush and was in good location so we left it, we believe it's a BlackBerry. Every year my family has been picking berries off this bush, they tell me they are delicious. Our neighbor passed, we have a new neighbor now and he pulled out all the berry bushes, so no more runners. I'm glad we have this one bush as a reminder of my prior neighbor, he was a good neighbor and fellow gardener.

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My husband absolutely loves blackberries. I buy those small plastic containers of fresh berries with my grocery order. There is a brand called "Carolina Sweets" or something like that; they are huge berries and very tasty.

 

[Tony Page]

@Mary Stetler
@Beth Gallagher
I'm not a berry eater but like I said before my family loves them. it's right by the entrance to my vegetable garden. I did not notice any thorns, so I assume it's a thornless variety. It's been a strong healty bush.

 

[Krystal Shay]

My husband absolutely loves blackberries. I buy those small plastic containers of fresh berries with my grocery order. There is a brand called "Carolina Sweets" or something like that; they are huge berries and very tasty.

I like blackberries, dewberries, raspberries, blueberries, and all berries. They are all pretty good in a pie too.

I use to pick buckets full of wild berries when I was young. Then I got older and became scared of snakes. I learned that snakes like to hang out in the blackberry bushes. Now I buy them from the store or the Farmers Market.

 

[Don Alaska]

My wife and her friend go blueberry and cranberry/lingonberry picking and often find bear scat among the bushes. They are usually armed but have never actually encountered bears where they go. We do not have snakes here, however. I like blackberries better than raspberries, but blackberries seldom survive her, but raspberries do pretty well. We are beginning to cultivate nagoonberries, but it is difficult to gather enough for jellies and jams, so they are usually just eaten fresh. Children love the things. They are sweeter than raspberries that we grow. We also have bearberries and something that the Natives call blackberries, but they are not the blackberries you are familiar with as they are insipid things that are edible and used to expand other berries in their recipes such as akutaq. There is also a berries that is called Salmonberries and they are like golden raspberries that grow on small trees. In Western Alaska, they call another very sweet berry Salmonberries as the color is salmon colored, but those are called Cloudberries elsewhere and the is only one berry on a plant.