Splendid looking berries! The wine sounds good!!
Gorgeous berry bushes. I've been trying to grow berries here in Texas. So far, I've kept the bushes alive, but they are too small and too new to produce much of anything.
Hang in there. Keep them watered. Patience!
Over here in south Louisiana, southern blueberries are the star popular berries, but they also need quite acidic soil. I am finding in just the second year, that the southern varieties of BLACK-berries are the real workhorses and not too particular about sun or pH. I had a great crop this May. Blackberry vines really seem to follow that pattern of..."First year they sleep, second they creep, third they leap."
So does that attract beasts, especially bears?
Luckily I only have to deal with moose... I do have to fence off my Black currants but they don't bother my Gooseberries or Raspberries
I'm envious of those gooseberries.
But strewth it only seems like yesterday that you were picking the 2020 crop!
You have beautiful raspberry and gooseberry bushes! Just lovely.
Sounds great. I used to make lots of fruit wines. My favorite was cranberry wine.
Elderberry!
@FrayedBear I pick elderberries from bushes that grow in t6he ditches along roads here in the county. I use the whole rosette of the elderberries dipped in pancake batter and fried in hot oil. Just delicious!
@Spinliesel Do you eat the stems as well?
I suspect too hot & droughty here to grow elderberry bushes. They prefer cool climes.
@FrayedBear Only the tender ones. And yes, the bushes require a cool and humid climate, I think. I never saw any in the hot states, Arizona, New Mexico, or Texas.
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