Dewberries; Is the juice worth the squeeze this year?

[Txhuntr2]

I've always heard the blacker the berry the sweeter the juice.

[doug]

Meh... Radar, check out these babies!!
This is a comparison of wild dewberries with my tame blackberries ...and NO STICKERS!! Yea, I'm a wuss!!

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Man those look great Charlie.

I'm going to the lease this weekend and hoping to find a few.

[Johnny44]

Take a jar of blackberry jelly and mix in 1/2 shot of Jack Daniels

My secret patch is yielding too.

[DesertDug]

went out this weekend thinking it was picking time put was disappointed. Think I missed it by a week or two

[dustoffer]

Checked my local patches where I picked 12 quarts last year and they are prime. Also talked to a friend who said his son ambushed the pigs in their patch this weekend--

[buzzbait]

They are thicker than fleas along my driveway. I pick a Yeti 30 tumbler full a day. Have about 3 gallons frozen and another 1/2 gallon in the fridge. My boys love them some dewberry pie.

[SaltwaterSlick]

Far as dewberries, places where my bride and I picked upwards of 10 gallons last year, we'll be lucky to pick 2-3 gallons... frost got us pretty bad out on the Prairie... the tame blackberries just keep blooming so they will produce and being primocane, the new growth will produce in the Fall... We had berries all the way up into October last year... First year we planted them, we picked enough fresh blackberries to make a cobbler as dessert for our Thanksgiving dinner...

[IkemanTX]

Ours aren’t even swollen up yet.
I’m guessing another 2 weeks until they are ready. Haven’t really checked past the small little early patch I use as an indicator of when they’re ready.

My sister also has a decent patch of natives in her yard that need another 2 weeks.


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[RifleBowPistol]

So far this year, I started finding them two weeks ago. It took me three days of picking to fill the first container, which turned out to be four cups. My wife made a dewberry cobbler with those. Since then, I have gone out picking dewberries every two to three days. I have filled a container every time. We have gotten about 16 cups of dewberries at this time. I think we will get another two, maybe three containers of dewberries, before they are done, we still have a lot of small green berries at this point, even still have flowers on some plants. I have not even looked on the back of the property for dewberries yet, probably look some this weekend when I am out killing more stinging nettle.

[KactusKiller]

Mine had just started moving past the blooms a week ago. I need to get out and check on them.

[Sackett]

Wife made some jelly out of dewberries last week.. its. Not as good as the mayhaw or huckleberry jelly she makes but it's a lot better than eating them raw.. it didnt take as many as I thought it would . The juice goes along way.

How are y'all getting Huckleberries?

[Low Fence]

I picked 3-4 gallons a last year and got tires of picking. This year I have very few. None ready yet. But I didn’t see 1/100th the blooms this year. Im sure late freezes hurt them some in my area

[Texas8point]

Dewberries; Is the juice worth the squeeze this year?

Saturday morning



Managed to get 2 of these...

[Snowflake Killa]

Dang Texas 8 that pie looks great. I went back yesterday to my back pastor nothing but little dried up berries.

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[IkemanTX]

Dewberries; Is the juice worth the squeeze this year?

I went out and checked our normal blackberry and Chickasaw plum patches this morning. The Chickasaw plums (and Mexican plums for that matter) must have been hit hard by that late freeze this spring, because there’s hardly a plum on them. The blackberries are bearing well, but the 29 inches of rain we have already had this year has the grass and wildflowers over waist tall, so it is dang near impossible to get to them. I spent about 10 minutes and picked a few cups worth before I decided to wait on a day I had blujeans, bug spray, and gloves.


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