It is November 27th in the northern hemisphere and I am picking strawberries. Not many but they taste yummy.
Normally I don’t have strawberries until late February or early March here in Houston. I am not complaining – I love ripe strawberries from my garden any time! Fingers crossed that my early spring crop will be abundant!
I took my sons dog for a run today at the soccer fields nearby. The eastern edge backs up to the woods and has been home to a prolific dewberry patch – wild blackberries. A few days ago while letting the dog run I noticed that the grounds keeper had severely cut back the eastern perimeter and nearly wiped out the blackberries. So, today I carried a bucket, trowel and clippers to the fields. I rescued a dozen root cuttings for my garden. Fingers crossed that they will thrive in a “managed” garden.
I do love my berries! Jams, preserves and eating them fresh. Next trip to see my mom in Los Osos, CA, I will abscond with some root cuttings from the wild blackberries near her house. They tend to be a bit larger and a bit sweeter than our Texas dewberries. Hmmmm, I really think I need more land! Let’s see what 2016 brings me!
TTFN
Bishop
From My Backyard 
Nov 26, 2015 @ 22:40:14
On the property we bought in 2004 there was the skeleton of gardens from eons past. There were also native black raspberries. They now border the woods end I pick shy quarts every summer! I admire what you did!
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Nov 27, 2015 @ 01:07:55
Thanks. I have always been fond of wild berries. Loved picking the huge blackberries along fence rows up in the Pacific Northwest. The locals hated them and tried to eradicate them.
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Nov 27, 2015 @ 02:13:03
So happy for you, it’s always special when we get a little serendipitous reward from the garden. But, where, near Morro Shores, are there wild blackberries??? In those raggedy fields east and south of us? I wouldn’t go out there if the berries were picked, rinsed, and waiting in a basket! You’re a braver man than I!
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Nov 27, 2015 @ 02:41:19
Just down the road left of SweetSprings Preserve. Along the barbed wire fence. Late June or early July they should be ripe. Lots of thorns with the wild berries.
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Nov 27, 2015 @ 14:04:50
Thanks. But I’m embarrassed. You, in Texas, know my neighborhood better than I do! Actually, don’t know why I even asked–with this CA drought, I’m not about to try to plant anything new, I’m barely sustaining what I have. (whine, whimper, complain)
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