Dewberries

[be12hunt]

Man my mouth is watering.

[Russ81]

Only down side too a bumper dewberry crop is Ol' wives tale means hurricane season is gonna be a rough one.

[ThisLadyHunts]

That looks good! Is that coco powder or cinnamon dusted on top?

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Turbinado sugar, if I had to guess.

[hog_down]

Turbinado sugar, if I had to guess.

Oh, ya'll fancy!

[ThisLadyHunts]

We have picked two gallons so far. Made a pie and gave a lot to to my friend.


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Is that a crumble pie or a pie with streusel topping? Care to share the recipe?

[SaltwaterSlick]

Where do you get those Charlie?

Sorry Doug, just now seeing this.
Got them online from Stark Brothers. There are several places to order while in season, but these guys ship fast overnight and their plants are healthy. Tried a couple others but came back to Stark.
This variety is Prime-Ark Freedom. They are a fruiting thornless primocane blackberry.

https://www.starkbros.com/products/berry-plants/blackberry-plants

[SaltwaterSlick]

Just finished our first batch of Jelly for this year... From our tame thornless blackberries...

[Scubasteveo]

Charlie, could you show how you have these planted? I am interested in growing some, but not sure if they need to be on a trellis or supported in some way.

Thanks

[K. Lane]

Grndchecker has A TON in his pasture. His wife has made 40 or 50 jars of jelly so far.....My 17 year old is supposed to be over there today picking a bunch so my wife can make some too... as well as a dewberry pie or three

[SaltwaterSlick]

Charlie, could you show how you have these planted? I am interested in growing some, but not sure if they need to be on a trellis or supported in some way.

Thanks

I did mine just like this. Other than I let the weeds take over last year because it was so wet I couldn't get in there to mow.



Oh and my berries are planted in the ground not in tubs...




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[buzzbait]

The other one is simple

3 cups of berries
1 cup of sugar

Cook down
Then add 1 flour ( mom now changed it to corn starch) to 1 sugar to get desired thickness. Pour into pie crust and bake. Then sprinkle with cinnamon and powdered sugar. Best served with homemade vanilla ( I’m partial to blue bell. I grew up in Brenham )


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[3ChordTruth]

I remember as a kid helping my dad plant a big garden every year, and each year he added bushes to his blackberries part of it. Dad planted, cut back, tended to the bushes, us kids picked and my mom canned jelly like SaltwaterSlick’s pic reminds me. Great pic SS, lots of work there but boy how good that jelly is going to taste this winter. I got to get me some bushes started, this post was what I needed to get going on it.

[SaltwaterSlick]

Mine are actually his old style with the single post and double wires with spreaders. Only pic I have that sort of shows the wires is this one, before I put in all the spreaders and tightened the wires...





This is a comparison of regular Dewberries with my Prime Ark Freedom thornless primocane blackberries...





No thorns and berries as big as the end of your thumb will spoil you when picking... (No stickers and don't take near as many berries to fill up your bucket)!

[3ChordTruth]

Great information SaltwaterSlick, you are the blackberries expert, thanks for the good advice and helpful pics. Oh, and I’ll take my blackberry jelly with just a little cow’s butter on toast.