r/Berries

Are they suppose to be that sour/tart?? 😳

I may have picked them too early out of excitement, but boy it was like licking a lemon tart... I probably picked them too early lol

So I crushed a handful and put them in my water. I normally have lemon-water for lower ph, but a few crushed honeyberries did the trick too 😅

These are my first honeyberries from these plants that I planted 3 years ago.

2 of Indigo Treat

1 Honey Bee

1 Boreal Blizzard

They had suffered a transplant to a new place which stunted their fruit bearing time to this year. I was sooo excited to see the first dark berries. I'll be keeping and eye on them and taste testing as they continue to ripen...

But... what is your experience with the taste of honeyberries??

I live in Germany and you can't really find bilberries anywhere, unless you go to a specialty store.

I'll be trying to grow some in my garden and see if they survive the summer heat here. Currently it's going to be 30C for the next 7 days.

If these guys survive the summer, then I'll definitely plant more of them.

I dug a 30cm deep hole and then filled it with a mix of white peat and rhododendron soil. I added a plastic divider on the sides, so that the garden soil doesn't get mixed in with it.

A good healthy layer of pine bark mulch on top.

I’m in zone 8b and the plant is Champagne Pink in a part shade. This plant is doing quite well this year and I thought I would get a bit of harvest but it’s dropping its fruit. The green fruit looks like it’s turning yellow but then rotting inside and dropping. I seem to have the same problem with the other bush too and my gooseberries.

I bought all plants last year and only this year they fruited.

This is year 2. No new canes, and the leaves are soooo tiny.

Hi first time harvesting garden huckleberry. Are these center ones the dull color ready for picking?

My wonderful neighbor decided it was a good idea to spray the poison ivy along the fence line and sprayed my raspberry suckers that had traveled under the fence.

Are my entire plants toast? They are a little wilty, it has been 6 days since the attack. I was hoping maybe they were just dry but its rained and now they look worse. If they survive will the berries be edible? Next year? I was in tears I am so mad. This was the third year and they were so bountiful.

Is there anything I can do?

Thanks

I ran into some huge hiccups on growth rates and was nearly going to drop this project in favor of petunias due to my limited growing space. Truly. It was looking like two generations/year MAYBE less. They're extremely slow to grow from seed. I was so close to dumping the seedlings.

I had been germinating seeds in rockwool in a tray with a humidity dome, and while that went well for the seedling stage, they did poorly once transferred to potting soil.

At first, I planted the rockwool cubes too shallow, and as the rockwool dried (while soil was still wet) the seedlings would dry out and die.

I added more soil, and that stopped death by dehydration, but they still grew extremely slowly, and looked terrible. (As shown in the second pic)

I was at my wits end.. Just waiting for something to happen with them. Nothing did.

I finally had the idea of adding soil beneath the rockwool after they've germinated and roots are sticking out from the rockwool, then letting them stay in the humidity dome for more time.

I also have them about an inch closer to the lights, and upped liquid nutrient additions. (Lights cant get any closer than they are!)

Boys.. night and day difference. The seedlings in rockwool are already larger than the vast majority of seedlings I transfered to pots ten weeks ago.

There's one exception, a plant that just TOOK OFF from the first lot (third pic) but most have been outclassed by this new experiment.

I'M STILL DOING THIS.

Ive had these haskabs for about 5 years now and i love them, but when the started producing the birds ate all of the berries before i got any! Last year we put a net over them and removed it after picking some so the birds could have the rest, but a few robins got caught in the net trying to get them before we removed it. Are there alternatives to nets that i could use so the birds can have some and i can have some? My grandma thinks i could cover two of them and leave one and that might work but they all produce and different times... Any ideas?

The two on the sides are the same species and the middle is a different one if that helps.

These are everbearing Ostara, growing in grounded pots in a greenhouse.

It looks like the slug population has collapsed since a toad took up residence in the greenhouse. I haven’t seen a single slug yet?!

It’s growing a lot faster than I thought it would, should I prune it now or wait until winter?

Hi everyone, long time listener first time caller.

I bought these thornless blackberry canes around the beginning of May and repotted them about a week ago. I'm not sure exactly when it started happening (though it was definitely before it was repotted—last picture), but the cane on the left has completely dried up from the top and other has a bit of the same.

I'm new to growing blackberries, so I was wondering if anyone would be able to tell me if the canes will bounce back or what I could be doing better. I live in Ontario zone 5b and get full sun in the backyard, the container has plenty of drainage, the soil hasn't been allowed to dry out completely, and I gave it some water with 20-20-20 at half concentration a few days ago (maybe too soon, in retrospect).

Any advice is welcome. Thanks in advance!

Hello everyone,

My wife and I are independent growers in the high-desert region of the Pacific Northwest. In 2024, we invested everything into a beautiful piece of land with soil that had been carefully developed over 20 years using organic methods, with the goal of building a legacy organic stone fruit and nut orchard, along with a cannery to process our crops locally.

Late last year, our dream faced a catastrophic setback. Our property suffered an off-target chemical drift event from a commercial applicator across the street from us. The persistent herbicide (Aminopyralid) completely strangled the vascular systems of our 458 mature peach trees, resulting in total canopy mortality.

We are currently working through the state regulatory and legal channels to hold the negligent parties accountable. But as land stewards, we refuse to just sit around and wait for a courtroom. We are moving forward right now to actively heal our earth.

Because Aminopyralid binds tightly to soil organic matter and targets broadleaf plants, we are weaponizing biology to clean the slate. We are launching a multi-year soil remediation plan utilizing deep-rooting, fast-growing forage grasses (like Sorghum-Sudangrass and oats) that are completely immune to the chemical. These roots will fracture the soil profile and pump massive amounts of oxygen down to the native soil microbes, forcing a microbial population explosion to naturally digest and break down the toxin. We also plan to plant rows of sunflowers as natural phytoremediators to pull remaining residuals from the topsoil.

We have launched a YouTube channel to document every single step of this biological recovery—from independent soil core lab tests to the day our new certified organic peach saplings can safely go back into the ground.

https://youtube.com/@orchardquestions?si=sGkrsgjJmzqIyKo-

If you would like to follow our journey, watch our soil recovery videos, or partner with us in crowdfunding the heavy costs of excavation, biological soil amendments, and our future main street cannery facility, please consider checking out our restoration fund.

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Thank you so much for standing with independent family farms and backing the resilience of our soil.

— Nicole & Seth

Located in Fresno, CA

Love this time of season!

Hi! My raspberry has begun to yellow and I can't quite figure out the cause. Spotted some aphids so I'll be treating with Neem oil, but I suspect there might also he some sort of nutrient deficiency. Hoping more experienced gardeners will be able to help me identify what its missing before I start throwing spaghetti at the wall!

Extra info: she's in a big pot, potting direct in soil is no go because I rent! Please ignore the rock it's not usually there. Located in the UK.

Thank you in advance 💕

Just got this baddy and put her in the ground a few weeks ago and now the leaves are starting to brown :/ is this normal?

Its a thornless chester