Wild blackberries :)

[Summerloco]

I found a wonderful surprise today, wild, organic Blackberries! They were growing along the tree-line next to my horse's pasture, and there is tons of them, most of the backberries weren't ready, but we did pick about 2 cups of them that were :) Now I just need to figure out what to do with them, I was just going to eat them straight, but I was thinking about maybe putting them in a green smoothie?

[RowanC]

I love fresh blackberries, smushed up with a little honey, on top of the cashew cheesecake. Sooooooooooo good!

I don't like them in smoothies because of all the wee seeds that stick in my teeth! :D

[SNMB]

I wouldn't "waste" them in a green smoothie. I usually put the fruit that's too ripe for me to want to eat it plain or just very cheap in my green smoothies. If you've got blackberries, I'd enjoy them plain.

[rawpriestess]

when you blend up blackberries or raspberries, you chop up the seeds into sharp little sand like particles, some people don't mind them, but I don't like them in shakes and such, so juice them first, if you don't care for the seeds.

we have an entire hillside of blackberries where we live, they are ripe in mid to late August, so we always have lots, and we make fruit leather.mmmmmmmmmmmm and give them to our grandkids, we do freeze about 5 gallons for ice creams and such throughout the next year, they are so wonderful.

plus all you can eat fresh is so magickally delicious too.mmmmmmmmmm

[Guppy]

Do blackberries grow on trees? We have a tree across from the house that has what looks and tastes like blackberries growing on it. I had always thought they grew on bushes?
emily

[Lay-Lay]

My hubby and I went blackberry picking Sunday and had so much fun. We picked a half bucket full. I ate mine just as they are and I made a smoothie for my hubby, which he loved

Lay-Lay's Blackberry Smoothie

1 frozen banana
1/2 apple
1 kiwi (with skin)
3/4 cup of lemonade
2 handfuls of blackberries
2 soaked dates
handful of ice cubes

Put in all in Vita mix or blender and mmmmmmmmmmm, yummy. SAD hubby loved and I had a taste and it was wonderful

[juliebove]

Do blackberries grow on trees? We have a tree across from the house that has what looks and tastes like blackberries growing on it. I had always thought they grew on bushes?
emily

They're viney bushes with lots of prickers on them.

[Tirza]

When we were in Seattle once, we were overwhelmed with the huge patch of wild blackberries right at the side of a parking lot. They were so ripe they were falling off the bushes. They were fermenting and the place smelt like a winery. Hmmmmmmm. Well you can make great juice.

The bushes were very high. Maybe because they weren't pruned and cared for? One could almost mistake them for trees. There were lots of thorns. Didn't hinder us though. I haven't been in a heavenly state like that for a long time. We just PIGGED!

[exurb]

Gup, your tree could be a mulberry. Are the berries elongated?

If so, where do you live, I'm coming to pick!

[codajess]

Our neighbors had a tree that hung over our yard. I always called them mulberries. I don't know if they actually were though. But mmmm I loved those!

[denisedeland]

Oh you are so lucky... I love fresh black berries..

Denise

[prettybrowngrl]

:( I've never had black berries! :( they sound good though.... :)

[rawpriestess]

blackberries, grow like raspberries, on vines that grow out of the ground, they get all twisted up with each other, and grow like weeds, (at least here in the Pacific North west) they are considered a nuisance, and if you have blackberries in your yard, and you are selling your house, people will not buy your property, because they are so hard to kill, they can get very tall, and they have large prickly leaves, that make great tea, and they have huge thorns that are extremely sharp, raspberries aren't as bad, they have smaller thorns, and canes.

[Guppy]

Exurb - Hmm, maybe mullberrys then. As long as they are edible, phew! My kids have been eating them. I'm in NY just outside of Manhattan. Not a very rural destination.
emily

[Lay-Lay]

blackberries, grow like raspberries, on vines that grow out of the ground, they get all twisted up with each other, and grow like weeds, (at least here in the Pacific North west) they are considered a nuisance, and if you have blackberries in your yard, and you are selling your house, people will not buy your property, because they are so hard to kill, they can get very tall, and they have large prickly leaves, that make great tea, and they have huge thorns that are extremely sharp, raspberries aren't as bad, they have smaller thorns, and canes.

They grow the sameway here in the south, yet I have never heard anyone call them a weed nor not want them in their yard.

I walked all over my neighborhood picking them on the right aways Sunday.

[Wiccan_Childe]

Hmm... Every September I used to go visit my grandparents, and stay there during school holidays, and live off blackberries. Man they were awesome, although not many used to make it home. I seem to remember that asparagus seem to come out at the same time? Man I miss living in the colder Australian states, for that reason alone :P I think that the blackberry bushes were so bad where we lived that they were almost considered a noxious weed? All the farmers kill them :(

Guppy, as everyone has said, mullberries grow on trees, you'd know if they were though, they stain everything red. Fingers and clothing especially.

[codajess]

How hard are mulberry trees to take care of? How long does it take for them to start producing? Like I said, the one I grew up with was in my neighbor's yard. I'm wondering if I can convince my parents to plant one in their yard. But i'll probably be 50 before it starts producing fruit, right? :(

[Wiccan_Childe]

haha, probably. we used to get ours from a MASSIVE tree that belonged to a house that was like... an oldschool farm, so I think it would have been pretty old. But this thing was huge, and was covered in fruit mind you.

You can probably get a semi mature tree that would produce some fruit pretty soon, but you'd have to ask around your area, maybe at a nursery for the best advice? That said, good luck :D

Emily