What is Your favorite Berry ?

[Smart Red]

That should be an excellent way of insuring they get enough moisture on their shallow root system. You will love having your own blueberries!

 

[Smart Red]

I just might have the Grands try the sheet trick this year. None of the mulberry trees are growing in mowed areas, though. Fortunately for me, I already have sheets that can be stained without regret. I use them to collect leaves when raking.

 

[Ridgerunner]

Red when mulberries are ripe place sheet on ground under tree, shake tree to drop berries. Feed any not full ripe to chickens.

The recipe I use for Mulberry Jelly calls for 1/4 of the berries to be red or not quite ripe so you get enough acidity for the jelly to set. I get a lot of the red ones but also add some lemon juice to make sure the acidity is up. I did not do that one year and had mulberry syrup for waffles, not the jelly I wanted.

 

[Nyboy]

 

[Smart Red]

Yum!

Gypsy's wild black-cap jelly turned out to be syrup as well. Very good syrup, though!

 

[aftermidnight]

For me it's a toss up between raspberries and strawberries with loganberries a close third. next it would be blackberries, there's a big patch just across the street from us in a vacant lot. The owner let's us pick all we want. Beside making blackberryand apple pies I make blackberry vinegar and a syrup to use with ice cream during the winter .

Annette

 

[Smart Red]

Did I mention the boysenberries I grow? Not a personal favorite, but good when it's the only choice at the time.

 

[ninnymary]

Blueberries. I just put 12 in and they're blooming now, and no I'm not pulling the blooms off this year. I did that with my dwarf patio blueberries last year on half of them, and I can't tell that it made any difference.

Says the person who told me to pull off my avocado blooms. Well just so you know, I didn't! Ha

Mary

 

[ninnymary]

If I have to pick one, it would be raspberries.

Mary

 

[thistlebloom]

Says the person who told me to pull off my avocado blooms. Well just so you know, I didn't! Ha

Mary

Do as I say, not as I do!