Didn't mean to tell you something you already knew. Refresh my memory, which fruits first? We use to pick them as a kid on our farm and I believe the dewberry season was first. But the farm is gone and I haven't found any in years. I'd like to go back to the farm, identify a patch and dig up some starts. New farmer is OK with that.
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What I liked about what we called Dewberries was the lack of thorns. Years - well, decades - ago the Aggie Airport had some fields around it that were filled with dewberries. I so much liked dewberry cobbler, I would pick a few gallons to take home to mom for her to make dewberry cobbler. Now that was a 3 1/2 hour drive to do that!
Dewberries and b'bonnets - takes me back to the younger more carefree days!
There is just something about peonies that makes Lil Mikey happy!
The Dewberries we use to pick had thorns. But maybe yours was a different variety.
Oh hush, now. Just because your stuffs 2 weeks ahead of mine is no need to rub it in
No worries my find. just clarifying my badly written words
Yeah but oh so worth it!!
Mine too. thorns that will grab every finger and piece of clothing
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When I was kid wandering the pasture and found black raspberries, never seemed enough to make a pie. Rather than just eat them, convinced Mom to teach me how to make pie crust. There wasn't enough to make a normal pie, but there was enough to make myself a mini pie.
Remember those horrible frozen pot pies that took 45 minutes in the oven to cook? They came in nice little aluminum pie tins. Would make pie crust for my mini pie and the left over dough would be rolled thin and spread with cinnamon and sugar and baked. Win-win, I'd get my raspberry pie and the rest of the family could have the cinnamon crust.
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Oh Frank - for information purposes only - here's a few more to look forward to! These lower elevations aren't too bad - sometimes!! All are different varieties of herbaceous peonies - well except for the iris at the last.
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I was surprised to read the other day that black, blue and raspberries grow well here. May add them to the list next year.
Lets see who can identify this one. Growing both in my garden and the surrounding woods of my property.
My money's on the gentleman from Nashville. If that guy from Pennsyltuckey doesn't get it first.
My money's on the gentleman from Nashville. If that guy from Pennsyltuckey doesn't get it first.
Looks almost like mayapple but leaves look different
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I believe that's goldenseal.
Grown/harvested for it's medicinal properties.
Grown/harvested for it's medicinal properties.
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I believe you may be right. Didn't think about that.
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Fairly easy for me, when I was in Grad school in Wisconsin, helped out a little with a project that was looking at cultivated goldenseal production to help the commercial ginseng growers. Idea was to utilize established shade structures after the ginseng was harvested. Ginseng exhibits autotoxicity and after harvesting a plot, it is nearly impossible to establish ginseng again on that same ground.
The leaf does look a lot like Mayapple, espesially early in the development.
Thoght for sure it would be a bit more difficult for most everybody here. Too much intelligent company around here.
Interesting, didn't know that. I have Ginseng growing too, just hasn't come up yet.
What's behind the autotoxity, compound produced by rootlets being severed or something to do with commercial farming?
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It's entirely something exuded through the roots as the plants mature. Probably more exuded after harvest. Sometimes you can get more ginseng to germinate, but may die soon after germination, or if it survives the plant will never thrive. Big issue for longtime ginseng growers as they are running out of land that hasn't been in production.
I'm sure that science could find a solution, but it's a very small industry in numbers and acres, so not a lot of big money available for research. Additionally the growers are very secretive and many are not particularly receptive to sharing info with researchers.
It's big money for individual operations and lots of money/resources are spent to prevent poaching of roots. Guard dogs, fencing, remote sensors/cameras and of course firearms are all used to protect the crop.
I'm sure that science could find a solution, but it's a very small industry in numbers and acres, so not a lot of big money available for research. Additionally the growers are very secretive and many are not particularly receptive to sharing info with researchers.
It's big money for individual operations and lots of money/resources are spent to prevent poaching of roots. Guard dogs, fencing, remote sensors/cameras and of course firearms are all used to protect the crop.
Black raspberries, yes to that!!! Getting me excited.When I was kid wandering the pasture and found black raspberries, never seemed enough to make a pie. Rather than just eat them, convinced Mom to teach me how to make pie crust. There wasn't enough to make a normal pie, but there was enough to make myself a mini pie.
Remember those horrible frozen pot pies that took 45 minutes in the oven to cook? They came in nice little aluminum pie tins. Would make pie crust for my mini pie and the left over dough would be rolled thin and spread with cinnamon and sugar and baked. Win-win, I'd get my raspberry pie and the rest of the family could have the cinnamon crust.
Here is a pic from last year.
