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Bumper Crop of Black Raspberries

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Fergienewbee

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I picked these this afternoon from one small area. They are just getting started. We have several small patches because I use my tractor to brush hog. Wife plans to make jam.

Larry
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Same here. Canes are 8-10' tall and loaded with berries.
I plan on picking a bunch Thusday. A few were ripe two days ago when pic, was taken. It is going to be a bountiful crop around here for those who like to challenge the prickers. Not a place for shorts and tank tops.
Loren, the Acg.
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Picked about a gallon a couple day's ago, mostly dewberries. The dewberries are really sweet this year. Probably get another gallon tomorrow. Look's like we will only have about half of what we got last year. They appear to have winter killed, not near as many briars, but berries are a lot nicer. Just a small patch, about 20 x 20, but I picked about 10 gal. from it last year before I got tired of picking and turned it over to the coon's and the birds. Also picked a cereal bowl of wild black raspberries, mmm good.
 
There is a bumper crop here but you have to get up in the dozer piles or off the ground 5 ft or so. I am thinking the turkey are keeping them picked down low. Anybody know if I am right?
 
We have always called them "black caps" here in upstate NY.
I see there will be a bumper crop here also in about a week.
My Mom always used them as a fruit dessert with ceam and sugar; never made pies with them like she did blackberries.
I intend to get a batch myself just for old time's sake.
 
Used to have a few black raspberries and blackberry patches around years ago, but they have thinned down to the point where if I can get a few quarts a year I'm doing good. Shame, as I really liked them.
 
I agree. This year, the raspberries and blackberries are both coming on nicely.

My brother picked 7 gallon water jugs full of raspberries. Should be 10 times as much on the blackberries, which just started coming in. I filled a red solo cup to the top with 31 blackberries. Most I've seen in years as we usually either get good raspberries, or good blackberries. This year the rain gave us both raspberries and blackberries. Pies are good, jelly is good, but the blackberry wine... well, let's just say that more than one bad decision has been made after a good year of blackberry picking.


Raspberry picture is from a few weeks ago, Blackberry photo is from yesterday before we got 2 inches of rain. All that rain is just going to make better berries. I have 4 acres of blackberries. I hope I get some supplemental income from them. I have a buyer, if I buy the flats and quart containers. I get $6 a quart, I think he asks $8 a quart. Not bad profit for both of us. He has a walk in cooler. I have an old conversion van that I can leave idle all night with the A/C running for a few gallons of gas.
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Unfortunately the wet weather has really dulled the taste of the berries, cherries, and other early fruits this year.
 
My patches have shrunk this year but there should be enough for Pest and myself. Pest is my three year old male Dachshund, last year he watched me pick some, I gave him some which he liked. After watching me pick more he started picking his own, he figured out how to pick them without getting stuck with the prickers. When he has picked all he can reach standing on his hind legs I give him some from the top.
 
(quoted from post at 17:50:57 07/09/13) There is a bumper crop here but you have to get up in the dozer piles or off the ground 5 ft or so. I am thinking the turkey are keeping them picked down low. Anybody know if I am right?
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Yes, turkeys will do a number on black berrys.Fun to watch the family go after them.Mom can stand on the ground and do fine.Little guys have to jump up and grab.Many kinds of birds will take some but not to the extent the turkeys do.Foxes,bear and racoons all like them.
 

My father called them black caps too. Last year and again this year-bumper crop but not quite ready yet in NNY.
 
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