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re: Finding a ripe berry patch is one of life's little pleasures.
Posted on 4/21/24 at 4:58 pm to FLBooGoTigs1
Posted on 4/21/24 at 4:58 pm to FLBooGoTigs1
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Stickers, snakes, heat never stopped us from filling up buckets of blackberries
My hands and forearms would take on a deep blueish hue from the juice getting into thorn scrapes
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Posted on 4/21/24 at 4:58 pm to fr33manator
Made a cobbler this morning with the berries I picked.
Question: what's the difference between dewberries and blackberries?
Question: what's the difference between dewberries and blackberries?
Posted on 4/21/24 at 5:00 pm to fr33manator
Picked some in Baton Rouge yesterday. Seems to be a great crop this year. Definitely one of life’s simple pleasures.
Posted on 4/21/24 at 5:03 pm to TheRiver
Anyone eat Japanese Plums or Loquats?
Those are awesome as well...
Had a friend of ours had a tree full of them, he thought they were poisonous till I pulled some off their tree and ate them...
Those are awesome as well...
Had a friend of ours had a tree full of them, he thought they were poisonous till I pulled some off their tree and ate them...
Posted on 4/21/24 at 5:05 pm to LSUBFA83
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Question: what's the difference between dewberries and blackberries?
To be technical about it, they aren't even berries, they are aggregate drupelets or something.
Dewberries, in my reckoning, are more of a crawling brambles. Rounder fruit and sweeter.
Blackberries are more stalky, grow higher, and the fruit is longer and more tart.
But I'm not a botanist
Posted on 4/21/24 at 5:09 pm to fr33manator
We did the same thing today with the kids on our walk
Posted on 4/21/24 at 5:11 pm to fr33manator
We just always called them "blackberries," actually never heard them called "dewberries" until now.
This post was edited on 4/21/24 at 5:12 pm
Posted on 4/21/24 at 5:13 pm to fr33manator
Get some good sweet varieties and plant them yourself. That’s even better.
Posted on 4/21/24 at 5:17 pm to fr33manator
Wow... What a delicious find. 
Posted on 4/21/24 at 5:18 pm to fr33manator
Grew up doing that too. Grandma would make a great cobbler with them. Great fun too. We saw a bunch that weren’t ripe yet a few years back in Covington at that hiking are next to the soccer fields.
Posted on 4/21/24 at 5:20 pm to Sofaking2
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Get some good sweet varieties and plant them yourself. That’s even better.
I've never had luck growing domesticated berries. Just grew up picking wild ones. Grew up in a Prairieville before everyone moved there, gravel road.
Miles upon miles of cow pastures with barbed wire fences, which the brambles absolutely loved. Rich soil made for some amazing picking. Good times for letting your imagination run wild.
That's all gone there now. My childhood paved over and fenced in.
Posted on 4/21/24 at 5:23 pm to Sofaking2
That’s what I did. I bought 3 thornless plants. 4 years later it was a nice big patch. I could let it grow bigger but we get more than enough. Our variety gets about the size of a pecan. We probably pick 7-10 gallon ice cream buckets full every year. We use them in pie, cobbler, or freeze them and use them for all sorts of things from smoothies to a sweet/tart substitute for ice in a mixed drink.
Posted on 4/21/24 at 5:29 pm to fr33manator
The bleach bath to get rid of the chiggers you got while crawling through the fencerow to get all those berries is almost as pleasurable.
Posted on 4/21/24 at 5:33 pm to fr33manator
What a loser that would down vote
Posted on 4/21/24 at 5:37 pm to fr33manator
Those berries would make a tasty cobbler served with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
Posted on 4/21/24 at 5:38 pm to fr33manator
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I pulled in the side of the road somewhere I'd been eyeing
You stalked and stole someone’s berries? You even left they chain link fence in the pic.
Posted on 4/21/24 at 5:40 pm to TigerDeacon
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You stalked and stole someone’s berries? You even left they chain link fence in the pic.
It's an empty lot. I did not steal someone's harvest. No more than the mouse and bird.
Posted on 4/21/24 at 5:41 pm to Sput
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TulaneLSU
I miss his quirky posts…did I miss the post about his death?
Posted on 4/21/24 at 5:53 pm to fr33manator
That's awesome.
Well, it wasn't casual for us. Every year my parents would take us out next to I26 and Ashley Phosphate road (which is now all hotels / restaurants) for acres of blackberries. After we picked buckets and buckets of them, they'd put them up as jelly / jams and make blackberry cobblers. We never bought jellies or jams from the store. If you wanted jelly, you got blackberry jelly.
Reminds me I got one bag of frozen blackberries left...taking them out to make a cobbler.
Well, it wasn't casual for us. Every year my parents would take us out next to I26 and Ashley Phosphate road (which is now all hotels / restaurants) for acres of blackberries. After we picked buckets and buckets of them, they'd put them up as jelly / jams and make blackberry cobblers. We never bought jellies or jams from the store. If you wanted jelly, you got blackberry jelly.
Reminds me I got one bag of frozen blackberries left...taking them out to make a cobbler.
Posted on 4/21/24 at 5:56 pm to LSUBFA83
Dewberries are the first to ripen in the spring, blackberries may-June.
As a small child I would eat the green berries and get my arse toe up by mother.
Best trip was a 5 gal bucket full picking off a train track north of campti La, second was on Giles Island one summer.
As a small child I would eat the green berries and get my arse toe up by mother.
Best trip was a 5 gal bucket full picking off a train track north of campti La, second was on Giles Island one summer.
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