Got 3 Berries Today!

[897tgigvib]

YES!

They had MARIONBERRY! But all they had of those were in a large pot of heeled in small bare root from somebody's patch. One I got had some roots and buds. It'll make it.

They had no black raspberries though.

I got instead, a BLACK SATIN and an ARAPAHO Blackberry, 1 each. These were nicely rooted and growing in 1 gallon pots. Those are seriously good blackberries! Oh, and black satin has the added bonus of PINK flowers.

Now, the guy who owns this little nursery told me he has no black raspberries in. When I almost jumped for joy seeing a 50 pound bag of bone meal, he smiled and got on the phone. While I was lugging the bag to the counter he was talking on the phone, speaking almost at me...when will you have the black raspberries? Not until January? Aww come on Sara! December...for me? Yea!...hang on... Then he tells me he thinks they'll be Black Jewel.

Bingo!!!

 

[thistlebloom]

Nice find Marshall!
I think I have Black Satin, but I'm not for sure...haven't got them in the ground yet. Maybe Friday.

So how many different varieties does that give you now?

 

[MontyJ]

Good deal Marshall! Black raspberries grow wild here. You can pick them by the bucket. Blackberries do too, but you have to know where to look to find the best ones.

 

[897tgigvib]

Of Rubus:

Fall Gold ER
Indian Summer ER
Black Satin BB
Burbank TBB
Local native salmon/dew berry, unknown, can't discover species
Local Ursinus BB
Boysenberry hybrid berry HB
Lacianatus species BB
Arapaho BB
Marionberry HB
Navajo TBB
Loganberry HB
Dewberry species BB
Tayberry HB

I think that's 14

ER = everbearing raspberry
BB = Blackberry
TBB = thornless blackberry
HB = hybrid berry, usually of some kind of blackberry with some kind of raspberry

edited to add the tayberry because i forgot it...

 

[Carol Dee]

Marshall with all those berries around you must have berry stained fingers most of the growing season.

 

[thistlebloom]

Marshall, do thimbleberries grow in your area?

 

[897tgigvib]

Thimbleberries are not supposed to have thorns or prickles, but these units are packed with the most treacherous and insidious...must find thesaurus...horrible terrible no good at all and seriously very bad prickles and thorns that can jump from plant to hand of every kind and shape imaginable, fully and completely designed to stop the deer, except that the deer around here have no nerves to feel them I think.

No, the few berries they make look like thimbleberries a little. These do have separate male and female plants. The canes have a waxy coating, cutin I think.

I just searched again. Not to be found. and it is rubus

 

[thistlebloom]

Thimbleberries are not supposed to have thorns or prickles, but these units are packed with the most treacherous and insidious...must find thesaurus...horrible terrible no good at all and seriously very bad prickles and thorns that can jump from plant to hand of every kind and shape imaginable, fully and completely designed to stop the deer, except that the deer around here have no nerves to feel them I think.

No, the few berries they make look like thimbleberries a little. These do have separate male and female plants. The canes have a waxy coating, cutin I think.

I just searched again. Not to be found. and it is rubus

So do you mean they have thorns?

No, I didn't mean as an id for your mystery berry, I was just wondering if thimbleberries grow in your neck of the woods.

I just thought it would round out your collection They have such pretty foliage.

 

[897tgigvib]

Thimbleberries would be great to have.

I was reading about a european one called cloudberry, which I hear sells for 10 euros a pound. Orange colored.

And, China has a wild raspberry that in one place, near some reservoir, that are 2 and a half inches across. Supposedly they originally came from Russia. Amazing things the USDA germplasm site has.

 

[thistlebloom]