A blackberry bush materialized in our garden last year - an unsolicited gift from a bird, no doubt - and this year the bush turned into a patch and we are having an extremely bountiful harvest.
I find that if you pick them and store them in the fridge for a day or two, it takes the edge off of the tartness and makes them very tasty. They possess numerous health benefits, too - vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, etc. They're particularly good when mixed in with our strawberries and pink lemonade blueberries.
Mrs Paco... in the blueberry patch... with a trowel!
ReplyDeleteBless that bird! I really enjoy blackberries. Blackberry cobbler with or without ice cream. Smuckers has a delightful jam, but homemade would be wonderful. Enjoy!
ReplyDeleteA bird left is a small red pepper plant a few years ago. It was very pretty. Unfortunately, it was cut along with the grass. I thought it would come back, but sadly, no. I can't even find what kind it was, so I can't get seeds.
The biggest problem with blackberry patches around here is the ticks and chiggers that you have to avoid, but your patch is probably new enough and small enough that you don't have that problem.
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I love blackberries! There were patches all around my childhood home; we'd pick 'em so that blackberry pies or cobbler would be on the table .....
ReplyDeleteBut the problem with blackberry patches is that they expand quickly. Rapidly, in fact, and will choke out other plants. There were some HUGE patches in local fields.
And those patches are hard to eradicate, let alone control. We had a patch in the backyard that Dad worked on furiously and doggedly for years to get rid of; he finally got it down to where the weekly lawn mowing kept it in check (you can guess who did the mowing, amiright?!?!?!!).
Anywho, when I drove past the old place a couple of decades later ... ... the blackberry patch was back with a vengeance.
JeffS is right about blackberries. They're nice to have, but they are invasive and almost impossible to get rid of. Don't ask me how I know.
ReplyDeleteRebecca, how do you know that?
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