wild blackberries

[jessica31876]

We have tons of the plants behind our house in the woods. I found about a dozen ripe ones today so defenitely not worth how scratched up I got but does anyone know about the time they really get loaded with the ripe berries? I seem to recall as a kid it was around May but it might be later on?

[MandaT]

probably depends on the climate. we get them pretty much late June thru Octoberish

[jessica31876]

ill check in a couple weeks then, its been really warm here lately and there were tons of red ones which were not ripe yet so maybe in a week or so those will be ripe

[DawnMarch]

Yeah, I was thinking later in the summer, like July.

[Sarah8914]

well, it must depend on climate, because here, the blackberry place we go to has them ready at the end of may and early june! They never last through june (way too hot!)

[jessica31876]

yea see that is what I was thinking. When the kids are out of school the sun has already baked most of the wild blackberries here. Maybe because our winter was a little colder tehn usual here they are a little late.

well, it must depend on climate, because here, the blackberry place we go to has them ready at the end of may and early june! They never last through june (way too hot!)

[sarahbhb]

We had blackberries when I was a kid and I really think it was sometime in June that we started picking them (in Arkansas)...oh how I miss my grandma's blackberry jam. We'd always take a bunch of blackberries to her each summer and she'd make blackberry jam. She had raspberries in her yard so my sister and I would pick those for her to make into jam also. I'm not sure if more berries made it into our stomach or into the baskets...lol.

[eranslow]

yummy blackberries! in MN and WI they are ripe around the end of June/early July. But it might be even earlier this year since it's been a warm spring. Love blackberries!

[Kat Stokes]

I'm in Cali and they usually ripen in mid-June to early July here. I love fresh blackberries over vanilla ice cream. YUM!!!

[scrapperjade]

When we went to Oregon last summer, they were ready when we were there... it was the first week of August. But you guys are a lot warmer in Florida that Oregon, so you would probably have a quicker season.