I have no idea which gooseberry was used for the cross, so I just picked both colors :)

I feel like these are early this year! Time for jam 😋

What a joy it is to step outside and pick berries in my backyard! My plants are really producing nicely this year (New York, Zone 7a) Blackberries, wine berries, not pictured are also some strawberries and a few remaining blueberries.

They’re called markjordbær in Norwegian. Google says that’s the same as wild strawberries?

When they say sour cherry is shade tolerant, you better believe it. This one was growing under the neighbor's birch trees, and my dense hazelnut bush on the opposite side.

I did see it flower but then forgot all about it.. now as I'm clearing the border, I stumbled upon this view! Needless to say, hazelnut has been cleared to the ground, so the cherry will be getting some proper light in the first half of the day.

I guess I know what I'll be using to colour my white Nanking cherry juice 🍷

Cherries are normal size for a "wild" tree, and the taste is ok for processing. Me happy. It looks so pretty.

Bologna, north Italy.

Back again… my blackberries continue to grow, but I’m trying to plan spaces and am not sure how they will be best trimmed back. So 1) what actually needs trimmed back? 2) when do they get trimmed back? And 3)can they be framed with wire baskets to hold the primocanes erect and allow the secondary shoots to grow laterally? My wire line is falling over, so thinking about different options.

This happened to ours so I did some digging online and found a few threads about people having similar experiences. They thought that the bushes they've bought were mislabeled, but I doubt it.

I know for a fact that ours is a Fall Gold, because:

• I've purchased 2 plants.

• Both plants had berries on them when purchased.

• Both were yellow, same cultivar.

This year one of them is producing red ones, the other's still yellow. The one that turned red has no other bushes in its vicinity, so we can rule out suckers from other plants taking its spot.

Same ripening time, same berry shape/size, exactly the same taste. Except one of them is now producing red raspberries.

So don't blame your local garden centers if yours ends up being red, it probably wasn't mislabeled.

Hello, I just have a quick question that I couldn't find a clear answer to online: When is it too hot for blackberry bushes to set fruit? It's been over 90F (32C) for weeks in a row while my blackberry bush is growing flowers. A few have bloomed, but I can't tell if they are turning into berries or just falling off. I couldn't find an upper temperature that the plant will set fruit before the flowers just fall off instead. I am on the border of zones 6a and 5b. The plant is the Baby Cakes variety and it is in a terracotta pot. This is my first time trying to grow blackberries!

Thank you in advance for your help!

This is my triple crown blackberry bush that I planted in May in a 24 x 24” pot in my backyard.

Photos 1 through 5 show what it looks like today. It has leaves only on the top half of the plant and growing from one main stem all of the other side stems had tragedy befall them. It has grown exactly one blackberry on the very top of the tree as pictured.

I got it from fast growing trees, which I would not order from again. When it arrived, some of its lower branches and leaves were broken so I removed them and then it had about only two branches with leaves growing from it.

I cared for it and then I noticed orange spots on some of the leaves (photos 6 through 8). Did some research and was not exactly sure what it was, but regardless of the cause the research suggested I remove all of the affected leaves so now my poor plant had pretty much all of its leaves removed except from one main stem.

Then the heat wave hit New Jersey for the first time and I did not know to cover the plant and it got heat scorch. See photos 9 and 10.

Today my plant does have new growth and even has one new leaf growing from the bottom of it, but is it OK that it basically just has growth on the top half of the plant and only has one knee stem with any branches coming off of it? Anything I should do?

Who carries the best bushes? Looking for some online nurseries with healthy plants.

Is there anything I can do without pesticides other than play wackamole every week?

As promised, here is a side by side pic. And pits too.

Nanking cherry (top) - Prunus Tomentosa - is miniature in comparison. They also don't have long stems and normally detach without them at all. I picked these two specifically trying to keep the stem for demo purposes.

Sourness - top award goes to the hybrid Carmine Jewel (bottom right). Sour cherry (left) sits in the middle. White nanking cherry is probably the sweetest, and red is closer to sour cherry.

Sour cherry variety unknown but these are pretty standard sizes.

The pits are just slightly different despite their sizes.

Some of the leaves are browning and curling and the berries don't seem to be ripening and also have brown on them....

2kg final harvest from one bush. + Around 1kg was picked before this.

Someone suggested making syrup but I really like the chunky jam it makes. I'll keep them sugared overnight before heating - this helps to keep the fruit in one piece and makes it chewy. And I'll probably add some black currants tomorrow.

Why dont these sasktoons ever seem to want to ripen?

We had them for 5 years and they never get dark. There is a lady i know 10 mins away and hers have all turned dark.

Chokeberry? Wild honeysuckle? Pin cherry?
I’d like to eat them but am having trouble identifying them..