Berries

[The Innkeeper]

just a few of the local wild berries and fruits
Raspberries of numerous types
Oregon grape
Blueberries
Plentiful rose hips
I am told there are huckleberries as well but I haven’t found them yet ( berry patches around here are more closely guarded secrets than favorite fishing holes

 

[*Andi]

No berries but Rose hips and walnuts for me ...

 

[The Innkeeper]

No walnuts up this way but now that I think about it we do have hazel nuts if the squirrels don’t get them first

 

[Dani]

We have blackberries, Mayhaw (trees that grow cranberry size red berries located down the swampy slews by the rivers), & dewberries. Birds normally get the majority of the dewberries though. . . as fast as they turn black they are gobbled up. We only have a couple of those trees on our property, one which is probably 12 ft high located in the pasture with the bull. Charlie is one who thinks he is a dog and will try to rub up against you and the ladder you are using. Not a good combo when trying to pick them that high off the ground, especially if your like me and hate heights. Huckleberries are supposed to be in east Texas but I haven't seen any here (yet, but I'm still lookin). I have a few hunny holes for blackberries and they are all off the beaten path, but I'll never tell .

 

[hiwall]

I did not have time for much looking for berries since I moved here but I did find a few loaded current bushes on the hill behind my house.

 

[NannyPatty]

SE Okla. Blk berries abundantly
Dew berries
Fox grapes and possum grapes
Mayhaw
Several kinds of wild plums and nuts

 

[UncleJoe]

We have scores of wild raspberry plants all around the place; almost to the point of being a nuisance. There's one that grows up right near the shed door. I've pulled it out twice. It came back again this year.

 

[NannyPatty]

That's the way blk berry plants are here in Okla.

 

[The Innkeeper]

Not really berries but we also have pin cherries and chokecherries as well.

 

[NannyPatty]

Not really berries but we also have pin cherries and chokecherries as well.

What can you make with choke cherries?

 

[UncleJoe]

What can you make with choke cherries?

Ink?

 

[The Innkeeper]

What can you make with choke cherries?

they make awesome jelly as do Oregon grapes.

 

[Chris]

We have wild blackberry everywhere. On my property in the mountains it is covered in huckleberry. Those are tasty.

 

[hiwall]

Not really berries but we also have pin cherries and chokecherries as well.

I remember picking pin cherries every year when I was a kid. Most of the ones I picked never made it in the bucket

 

[NannyPatty]

they make awesome jelly as do Oregon grapes.

Making jams and preserves the old fashioned way is one of my favorite things to do!

 

[Cnsper]

What can you make with choke cherries?

Ink?

Wine

 

[SheepDog]

I was camping at a lowland lake with a small group of guys and the first morning I gathered some blueberries and made blueberry hotcakes. Not one of those guys would eat any, they though I was going to poison them. What I couldn't eat the dogs did.

 

[joel]

My wild raspberries end in July. I plant them & they took over my cleared area next to the garden.
I have an Oregon grape, blueberries, mayhew,choke cherry(black), muscadine, American persimmons, crabapple, black berries & dew berries.

 

[*Andi]

I was camping at a lowland lake with a small group of guys and the first morning I gathered some blueberries and made blueberry hotcakes. Not one of those guys would eat any, they though I was going to poison them. What I couldn't eat the dogs did.

Folks like that crack me up ...

 

[skittles]

@SheepDog Sad

 

[GrannyG]