How are y’all’s blackberries this year?

am i the only one spraying roundup on the mountain tops

No as many as last year, but they are big enough to use this year.

Southwest Virginia checking in and the berries are smaller in size and quantity

re; wa.

they were flavorless last year and so this year i pulled most every single vine out of the ground and am growing other things in their place. lol. it's true. sorry. they'll be back in a few months time...but honestly, huckleberries are often better.

we have like 12 mullberry trees and they produced like 5% of the berries they normally do. last year i ate them off the trees every day for what felt like almost a month. this year it was just pathetic with how little they produced. something happened. glad to see this thread.

South of Seattle here.

My blackberry bushes are out of control this year. Lots of flowers but no berries yet. In thirty years of owning my property I've never had the bushes grow as fast as they have this year. If left alone they would be the size if my house. It's a nightmare!

Crossbow is the best herbicide for blackberry vines.
Advice from the PNW.

Mulberry are/were really good this year. Blackberry have looked unhappy since flowering.

My black raspberries are doing good ! This is only the 2nd year since I transferred starts from my old house.

about 8 years ago I bought 2 overpriced blackberry bushes from some lady on a farm.
Planted them along my back fence. Never got 1 berry because the birds would beat me to them. And they were sending out huge arbors of massive thorny branches. So I cut them down and threw the debris along the mile deep woods across from my house.
Was walking along there this spring and saw blackberries! Those things I threw away found themselves a new place to grow all by themselves! About 150 feet of edge there now has a decent patch of blackberries. Nature is pretty amazing sometimes. Ate a couple handfuls. The brush along there is dense enough that the birds didn't seem to be eating all of them.

Last Edited by JustmeTX on 07/04/2023 04:41 PM

Mine won’t send or receive calls anymore???

Ha!

doing okay here I hear. lots of them.

I pick wild berries. Last year at this time the black raspberries and mulberries were abundant, I filled several containers.

This year, WHAT HAPPENED?!?! Very few berries!!!

Here in northern California we are about a month out from berries on the blackberry bushes. I suspect probably 6 weeks out given the slow start to summer here.

Oh goodness I didn’t think anyone was answering! I’m sorry I didn’t check back sooner. My mulberry tree appears to be ancient it’s so big around! Lots of leaves though but no berries! To top it all off, I was so happy to move to a place with walnut and mulberry AND a persimmon tree. Wouldn’t you know it… it’s male! No fruit for me this year! just my luck.

My friend in Eureka Springs says they had gobs of blackberry flowers but hardly any berries.

I wonder what’s causing all this. Besides the roundup mountain guy. Lol.

That’s sweet!

Blackberry leaves will stop the scoots they say. Supposed to be more gentle than Imodium.

Excellent!!!

Elderberry looks good this year. I’m making wine. It’s the best wine in the world.

You guys have the best blackberries and I spent 3 days looking at the red elderberry bushes that grow up there trying to figure out what they were. It was spring and I recognized the plant but it was a tiny bit different. Threw me for a loop.

Would love to try those.

Morning Fossy...

Cold nights in May and June ...

My garden is getting back into the groove now that the night's are warmer ..

I was scared for a minute

Probably had an impact on your plants.

Our apricot tree gave THREE apricots this year!

It was covered in years before.

What's happening?

Did you have a cold snap?

Cold nights hot days and no rain...

Last year everything was volunteer but string beans and cucumber.

Squash and tomatoes were everywhere.

Planted with the new moon but was too early and it's taken forever for my cucumbers to take off...worked out better for my squash.

Have one volunteer pole bean...

Going to have to get a bowl...that baby is loaded. Wish they always grew like that.

D.C.??

NOTAMS prohibit plants above 3 inches in altitude...so.