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Posted: 8/21/2020 6:56:30 PM EDT
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Growing up in Michigan, the lot next to ours had mixed wild blackberries and raspberries. We harvested those for well over a decade until my dad decided to build on that lot. Never had a problem, and the fruits were outstanding.
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Posted: 8/22/2020 7:52:03 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Growing up in Michigan, the lot next to ours had mixed wild blackberries and raspberries. We harvested those for well over a decade until my dad decided to build on that lot. Never had a problem, and the fruits were outstanding. These were in an area I generally didn't go in to, but I recall seeing berries on them at times, just never took the effort to do anything with them. Now it's cleared, I made a slight attempt to show them a little attention (as best I could, and using info read on the internet), but seemed to cause more harm than good. I did have several smaller berries earlier in the year, then suddenly they were gone. So I'm guessing the birds may have eaten them. Reading "rows" are better than "patches" for sunlight and airflow. I'll just have to wing it and hope for the best, lol. |
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Posted: 8/22/2020 2:00:52 PM EDT
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Don't have raspberries here but tons of wild blackberries.
The only difference I can find in the wild and cultivated varieties is thorns, there are thornless blackberry varieties, how cool is that. As for as growing wild blackberries, the only help I've ever given them is a shot of fertilizer in the early spring and honestly I'm not sure how much it helps, sometimes the fertilized patch does really well and sometimes there's no noticeable difference in the fruit, just lots more stalks and leaves. Might be a timing thing. Good luck with it. |
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Posted: 8/22/2020 2:11:53 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Don't have raspberries here but tons of wild blackberries. The only difference I can find in the wild and cultivated varieties is thorns, there are thornless blackberry varieties, how cool is that. As for as growing wild blackberries, the only help I've ever given them is a shot of fertilizer in the early spring and honestly I'm not sure how much it helps, sometimes the fertilized patch does really well and sometimes there's no noticeable difference in the fruit, just lots more stalks and leaves. Might be a timing thing. Good luck with it. LOL, yeah no thorns wouldn't be a bad thing. I do have some 10-10-10, chicken manure, dormant oil, and I believe some sort of sulphur powder which I'd bought via recommendations from some of the reading-up I've done. Best I can tell (again from reading), is wild versions are more susceptible to disease/bugs. Thanks for the input! |
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Posted: 9/8/2020 11:57:53 PM EDT
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We have tons of wild gooseberry, wild grape, wild raspberry on the property.
Wild grapes are worthless weeds, birds take the gooseberry, wild raspberry fruits are very small and not particularly sweet. |
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Posted: 10/3/2020 7:39:56 PM EDT
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Tag for further info.
I have a patch of raspberries (with thorns) in my yard. Not sure if they are wild or if once cultivated by previous owners. |
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Posted: 10/9/2020 8:59:37 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Tag for further info. I have a patch of raspberries (with thorns) in my yard. Not sure if they are wild or if once cultivated by previous owners. I've prepared a place to transplant a few plants into, once they go dormant. Will post update (next spring) if they survive 
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Posted: 10/11/2020 12:27:27 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: We have tons of wild gooseberry, wild grape, wild raspberry on the property. Wild grapes are worthless weeds, birds take the gooseberry, wild raspberry fruits are very small and not particularly sweet. I grew up eating wild grape jelly and drinking wild grape juice from MN. Maybe it depends on the part of the state they come from. 
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Posted: 10/11/2020 12:41:09 AM EDT
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If you cultivate them they cease being wild ??
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Posted: 10/11/2020 12:41:53 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I grew up eating wild grape jelly and drinking wild grape juice from MN. Maybe it depends on the part of the state they come from. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: We have tons of wild gooseberry, wild grape, wild raspberry on the property. Wild grapes are worthless weeds, birds take the gooseberry, wild raspberry fruits are very small and not particularly sweet. I grew up eating wild grape jelly and drinking wild grape juice from MN. Maybe it depends on the part of the state they come from. |
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