Started By
Message

re: What wild berries and fruits do you pick and eat?

Posted on 8/31/26 at 5:22 pm to
Posted by Bayouboogaloocrew
Dixie
Member since Jul 2013
5899 posts
Posted on 8/31/26 at 5:22 pm to
Planted 2 mayhaw trees in my back yard this spring. Hoping for some fruit in a few years so my wife can make jelly
Posted by LSUintheNW
At your mom’s house
Member since Aug 2009
37027 posts
Posted on 8/31/26 at 5:25 pm to
I pick blackberries and make fresh squeezed drinks with rum/vodka and I make freezer jam.
Posted by Juan Betanzos
New Orleans
Member since Nov 2005
4465 posts
Posted on 8/31/26 at 5:55 pm to
Any berry except DINGLE
Posted by Mung
Ba’on Rooj
Member since Aug 2007
9541 posts
Posted on 8/31/26 at 6:43 pm to
Dewberries and persimmons
Posted by deeprig9
Unincorporated Ozora
Member since Sep 2012
76201 posts
Posted on 8/31/26 at 6:55 pm to
My woods are covered up in wild muscadines, my wife just picked a large bowl of them yesterday and cooked them down into juice for jelly she's making tomorrow. The wild ones taste so much better than the cultivated varieties.

Our neighborhood used to have a huge wild blackberry patch in the woods by the lake, but the county came in to rebuild a large storm drain in the area and the blackberries are no more.
Posted by Disco Ball
Denham Springs
Member since May 2025
1805 posts
Posted on 8/31/26 at 6:58 pm to
Blackberries
Dew Berries
Muscadines
Not really a fruit but the shrooms growing in cow patties are a trip
Posted by Cdawg
TigerFred's Living Room
Member since Sep 2003
62241 posts
Posted on 8/31/26 at 7:07 pm to
Dewberries, Mustang Grapes, Chickasaw plums, Mexican Plums, Maypops.
Posted by Bayou
Boudin, LA
Member since Feb 2005
43589 posts
Posted on 8/31/26 at 7:28 pm to
Enjoy picking and eating noseberries
Posted by Jim Rockford
Member since May 2011
106206 posts
Posted on 8/31/26 at 7:30 pm to
I used to pick huckleberries with my mamaw.
Posted by BeerMoney
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2012
9024 posts
Posted on 8/31/26 at 7:31 pm to
Clegg’s on Siegen had them a month back. I just happened to see them while I was getting other things. They seem to keep a lot of native fruit trees
Posted by sledgehammer
SWLA
Member since Oct 2020
7918 posts
Posted on 8/31/26 at 7:35 pm to
Pepper vine berries if I come across them in the outdoors.
Posted by morganwadefan
TN
Member since May 2023
1733 posts
Posted on 8/31/26 at 7:54 pm to
Huckleberry, Blackberry and Muscadine.
Posted by Joshjrn
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2008
33494 posts
Posted on 8/31/26 at 8:04 pm to
quote:

It's almost certainly raccoons. We've got some vines at our camp and had to put up electric wires to try to keep them out or they will annihilate them.

Based on the volume they go through and the fact that I’ve never seen a squirrel eat any during the day, my money was on raccoon. But, I’m not sure, so I’m not ready to let them off the hook

But yeah, it’s insane. They won’t touch a single one, and then in two days, they are all gone. And the skins look exactly like a person would have partially split them to eat the grape, which for some reason feels more insulting
Posted by cgrand
HAMMOND
Member since Oct 2009
50909 posts
Posted on 8/31/26 at 8:06 pm to
coons have thumbs. If it were squirrels you’d see shredded mast all over the ground
Posted by Sugarbaker
Peachtree
Member since Jun 2023
676 posts
Posted on 8/31/26 at 8:08 pm to
There are blackberries at the edge of our field and muscadines growing in a tree near the barn. We have a persimmon tree, but it stopped producing years ago.
Posted by Joshjrn
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2008
33494 posts
Posted on 8/31/26 at 9:10 pm to
Other than electric fencing, which would be an utter no go with my wife, are there any decent options? The more aesthetic the better. I know they will reach through regular netting, but will they shred fine netting? I know roughly when they hit every year, so I would only need to have something up for a few weeks.
Posted by MBclass83
Member since Oct 2010
10402 posts
Posted on 8/31/26 at 9:10 pm to
Blackberries and raspberries
Posted by TankBoys32
Member since Mar 2019
4312 posts
Posted on 8/31/26 at 9:34 pm to
Used to pick blackberries near the train tracks as a kid and we would make cobblers.. good times
Posted by Shorts Guy
BR
Member since Dec 2023
1020 posts
Posted on 8/31/26 at 9:36 pm to
Blackberries, mostly. They used to be everywhere at my grandparents’ place.
Posted by SuperSaint
Sorting Out OT BS Since '2007'
Member since Sep 2007
151651 posts
Posted on 8/31/26 at 9:39 pm to
Cherry plums = goat
first pageprev pagePage 2 of 3Next pagelast page

Back to top
logoFollow TigerDroppings for LSU Football News
Follow us on X, Facebook and Instagram to get the latest updates on LSU Football and Recruiting.

FacebookXInstagram