I like growing veggies, but....

[SuperChemicalGirl]

Melons!

Oh, please!

Melons . . .

digitS'

x3 million. Maybe this year! A girl can hope.

 

[catjac1975]

After you can't eat any more, cook and strain them into raspberry sauce, or blackberry sauce if you have them. Drizzle it on vanilla ice cream...... Ahhhhhh....

I LOVE growing fruit! A few years ago we planted some red raspberries. They have grown huge- and are covered in gigantic raspberries! There is nothing like going out after dinner and picking a quart of these beauties! As with most garden produce, if you have only had raspberries from the grocery-you have never had raspberries. My advice to you, is to dedicate a little corner of your property to these berries. I don't think you will be sorry! I will definitely be adding more plants!

 

[SuperChemicalGirl]

After you can't eat any more, cook and strain them into raspberry sauce, or blackberry sauce if you have them. Drizzle it on vanilla ice cream...... Ahhhhhh....

I LOVE growing fruit! A few years ago we planted some red raspberries. They have grown huge- and are covered in gigantic raspberries! There is nothing like going out after dinner and picking a quart of these beauties! As with most garden produce, if you have only had raspberries from the grocery-you have never had raspberries. My advice to you, is to dedicate a little corner of your property to these berries. I don't think you will be sorry! I will definitely be adding more plants!

Now for someone who doesn't know how to do this... can you post a recipe? Sounds delicious.

 

[grow_my_own]

I planted a thornless boysenberry this year, a red flame seedless grape, a thompson seedless grape, and I don't even remember how many varieties of melon... 4, maybe 5.

 

[Smiles Jr.]

I planted a thornless boysenberry this year, a red flame seedless grape, a thompson seedless grape, and I don't even remember how many varieties of melon... 4, maybe 5.

Oh boy! You'll have to keep us up to date on how they do next spring. Sounds delicious.

 

[Carol Dee]

Lesa, I planted a golden and a red raspberry after hearing you all rave about homegrown berries! The ones from the farmer's market are not that sweet. There was one tiny golden one and it was sweet! Then for the first time, I had a sweet blackberry! Alittle dish of them were given to us by a restuarant owner of this tiny place. I should have asked where they got them from but I didn't. That weekend I ran to home depot to pick up one. Now, I can't wait till next year to have berries. The plants are small but still alive!

Do they need heat to make them sweet? If so, I think I'm in trouble.

Mary

Mary, the wild blackberries fruited before it started to get hot (and dry) and are super sweet. Now they are done as it has been very hot and dry. I think they might like it a bit on the cool side.

 

[lesa]

Steve, I have devoted quite a big portion of my garden to melons this year... I'll keep you posted. I saw one flowering yesterday....

 

[vfem]

I was FLOODED with raspberries this year... OMG! The BEST! Between the fruit trees and the berries, I am 1 very happy girl.

I picked 14 lbs of blackberries over the weekend, here's all the jam I made tonight from it.

 

[bluelacedredhead]

vfem, You must have a lot of raspberry canes to make that many jars of jam, Yum.

We have a small patch. I eat a few fresh but mostly just freeze them whole for the winter months. DH loves them on ice cream and I like Raspberry Oatmeal Muffins in winter. We brought a few blackberry canes from our last place. They are thriving but be a few years yet before we see any fruit I imagine.

And to the melon lovers, I think it will be a good year this year. I have lots of blossoms as well, even on plants I didn't think would be large enough to blossom. Have 4 varieties growing here as well, two of them on trellises.

 

[catjac1975]

I don't use a recipe. I cook the berries in a little water to soften, add sugar to taste, then strain out the seed.You can put it in a food processor if you want-it hurries the juice extraction. Cheese cloth works well for straining, some strainers do well if the holes don't let the seed through. This juice can be turned into jelly with a little added work. A recipe for this can be found on a bottle of fruit pectin or I'm sure online. I just freeze the juice in small plastic containers.

After you can't eat any more, cook and strain them into raspberry sauce, or blackberry sauce if you have them. Drizzle it on vanilla ice cream...... Ahhhhhh....

I LOVE growing fruit! A few years ago we planted some red raspberries. They have grown huge- and are covered in gigantic raspberries! There is nothing like going out after dinner and picking a quart of these beauties! As with most garden produce, if you have only had raspberries from the grocery-you have never had raspberries. My advice to you, is to dedicate a little corner of your property to these berries. I don't think you will be sorry! I will definitely be adding more plants!

Now for someone who doesn't know how to do this... can you post a recipe? Sounds delicious.