Shelter Cove - 7/6/21

Looks Delish!
Do the blackberries ripen earlier up there?
All the plants down here around Santa Cruz are loaded, but with unripe berries.

Looks Delish!
Do the blackberries ripen earlier up there?
All the plants down here around Santa Cruz are loaded, but with unripe berries.

The smaller (and tastier  ) wild blackberries ripen starting in late May - this year they were a bit late and mostly ripened by mid June.

Most blackberries in California (along the western part of the north state anyway) are Himalayan blackberries - they have giant bunches of berries that grow in full sun, and the berries are large like half the size of your thumb.  A large wild one is huge if it's as big as the tip of your pinky, and they like shade.  They don't grow in big bunches, and many of the wild vines don't even bear fruit.  The Himalayans have large thorns (like roses) and super thick vines, while the wilds have little stickery thorns and thinner vines.

I'm a berry snob and won't eat Himalayans.   

I'm not a berry snob.        But I have learned to appreciate the native berries this year... and the salmon berries, too!     

I'm a berry snob and won't eat Himalayans.   

Thanks eric, please dont eat me, I too am a Himalayan transplant

I gotta get in on the berry appreciation pile.
While I’ve no problem slumming it with our himalayas  , this year the stars were our native wild strawberries.
These little guys are the sweetest strawberries I’ve ever had. Some folks theorized that ashfrom the czu fire amped them up this year. I dunno about that, but they really took off as native groundcover and surprised us with the fruit production.
Anyway these came from a quick breakfast forage in our mini food forest.

please dont eat me, I too am a Himalayan transplant

You're the best kind of Himalayan, Yaady.   

I gotta get in on the berry appreciation pile.
While I’ve no problem slumming it with our himalayas  , this year the stars were our native wild strawberries.
These little guys are the sweetest strawberries I’ve ever had. Some folks theorized that ashfrom the czu fire amped them up this year. I dunno about that, but they really took off as native groundcover and surprised us with the fruit production.
Anyway these came from a quick breakfast forage in our mini food forest.

Nice!  Best wild strawberries I ever found were out on the dunes at Franklin Point in the early 90's.

I'm a berry snob and won't eat Himalayans.   

Thanks eric, please dont eat me, I too am a Himalayan transplant

OMG!  LOL!!!   too funny, Yaad!   Just don't go picking with him at Cannibal Island! 

Oh, and GREAT followup on the wild strawberries, PISCEAN!  I've seen them blooming near our beaches on the sand spit but have not seen the berries, mostly because I have not looked for them.

Look, I berrily hijacked this thread!