Garden

[cheriere]

I wanted to post these Wild Black Raspberries that are finally coming in too.  My dad dug these up from the mountain a few years ago and planted them down from our regular raspberries just to see how they'd do.

Because they're wild, these do have thorns, but they're not so bad.  They're a bit smaller too, but the taste is out of this world!  They're very sweet and smooth in texture.  The only thing we're gonna have to do is move them down a bit farther.  They really take over fast.

Here's some pictures comparing the two varieties.  I've already picked three gallons of the regular raspberries.  Whew!😥❤️

[Kachina624]

@cheriere.  Those berries make my mouth water.  Not being a "garden" state, New Mexico is the recipient of really crappy fruit.   I haven't had a decent strawberry in years.  I'm envious.

[SloopJohnB]

@cheriere   Delizioso !!! 

[goldensrbest]

I remember people picking them,when i was a kid,yes they are so sweet,my grandma use to make a cobbler, was my favorite,but people would get a rash ,sometimes from what they called chiggers.

[cheriere]

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@Kachina624 wrote:

@cheriere.  Those berries make my mouth water.  Not being a "garden" state, New Mexico is the recipient of really crappy fruit.   I haven't had a decent strawberry in years.  I'm envious.

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I really figured New Mexico would be a great state to grow fruit year round.  I've really learned something from you.  I wish I could send you some of everything.  We always have more than we can use.  We freeze a lot to use in the winter.❤️❤️❤️

[cheriere]

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@goldensrbest wrote:

I remember people picking them,when i was a kid,yes they are so sweet,my grandma use to make a cobbler, was my favorite,but people would get a rash ,sometimes from what they called chiggers.

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Lol, I know about chiggers all too well!  I've started spraying myself with bug and tick spray after I had to have help pulling a tick from my belly a few weeks ago.  I hadn't had one dug in like this since I was a kid.  You can't imagine how embarrassing it was to ask my dad to help pull a tick from my side stomach.😂

[Icegoddess]

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@goldensrbest wrote:

I remember people picking them,when i was a kid,yes they are so sweet,my grandma use to make a cobbler, was my favorite,but people would get a rash ,sometimes from what they called chiggers.

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@goldensrbest , I've got a chigger spot right now right underneath my bra band.  They seem to like places like that, waistbands, bra bands, etc.  

[Icegoddess]

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@cheriere wrote:

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@goldensrbest wrote:

I remember people picking them,when i was a kid,yes they are so sweet,my grandma use to make a cobbler, was my favorite,but people would get a rash ,sometimes from what they called chiggers.

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Lol, I know about chiggers all too well!  I've started spraying myself with bug and tick spray after I had to have help pulling a tick from my belly a few weeks ago.  I hadn't had one dug in like this since I was a kid.  You can't imagine how embarrassing it was to ask my dad to help pull a tick from my side stomach.😂

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@cheriere Maybe TMI, but earlier this year I squeezed one out of my back.  I actually at first thought it was a large blackhead since it was in an area where I had one the doctor removed for me.  DH didn't know if it was a blackhead or something else.  Imagine my embarressment about going to the doctor for THAT.  Anyways, after I squeezed the blackhead out, I looked at it (don't we all?) and realized it had legs.  It was tiny, much smaller than the comon dog tick I usually find crawling around on me.  That sorta worried me since the tiny ones, which are deer ticks, are the ones that carry lyme diseas.  So, I saved it in alcohol just in case.  I never developed that rash though, thank goodness. 

[Icegoddess]

@cheriere I'm not a huge fan of raspberries.  I think it's because they get soft and mushy so quickly and I don't like mushy fruit.  

I have a blackberry plant.  It's not much, and it actually moved itself to a different spot.  Must've worked for it since this year it had more flowers on it than I've ever seen.  It's got berries on it right now, but not ripe yet.  Guess how many I'll get.......how about none to less than a handful.  The wildlife will surely take care of that.  

[Carmie]

We had a row of wild black raspberries along the bank of our yard when I was a kid.

I used to snack on them and have cuts all along my arms and hands from picking them.  They were so good.

What good memories you brought back.  I haven't had any in years.