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re: What wild berries and fruits do you pick and eat?
Posted on 8/31/26 at 10:18 pm to Ramblin Wreck
Posted on 8/31/26 at 10:18 pm to Ramblin Wreck
BlackBerrys
Blueberries
Jejeumea
Plums
Muscadines
Blueberries
Jejeumea
Plums
Muscadines
Posted on 8/31/26 at 11:18 pm to Ramblin Wreck
Blackberries, plums
Posted on 9/1/26 at 6:27 am to BeerMoney
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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
Thanks but that is about a 6 hour drive for me. LOL
Posted on 9/1/26 at 6:29 am to Ramblin Wreck
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I just noticed I have a muscadine vine growing on a tree in the woods just behind my backyard. It is loaded with grapes and brought back childhood memories of picking them
about a months ago, me and my kids picked 4lbs of them over about a week then made homemade jelly with it. Was awesome.
Posted on 9/1/26 at 9:14 am to Klark Kent
Where I grew up, there were many old abandoned farms.
We would eat those (hard as a rock) horse pears, figs, plums, muscadine and pecans.
We would eat those (hard as a rock) horse pears, figs, plums, muscadine and pecans.
Posted on 9/1/26 at 9:24 am to Ramblin Wreck
Blackberrys, wild plums and crab apples. When I was a kid a sack full of wild green plums with a bunch of salt poured on top was a mainstay. We kept the skitters from about July - September but man those salty plums were good eating....our plumbing and septic systems, and sometimes our drawers, took a beating but they were damned tasty!
Scuppernongs and Muscadines were also common and subject to being wiped out as high as we could reach.....
We would pick blackberrys for days and wind up with enough for about one cobbler and one pint of preserves. Of course we ate about 10 for everyone we put in the sack. The number of blackberry's and their taste was directly proportional to the number of red bugs present....the more of the latter the more of the former and the tastier....I haven't eaten blackberry preserves in years....dammit
Scuppernongs and Muscadines were also common and subject to being wiped out as high as we could reach.....
We would pick blackberrys for days and wind up with enough for about one cobbler and one pint of preserves. Of course we ate about 10 for everyone we put in the sack. The number of blackberry's and their taste was directly proportional to the number of red bugs present....the more of the latter the more of the former and the tastier....I haven't eaten blackberry preserves in years....dammit
Posted on 9/1/26 at 9:30 am to Ramblin Wreck
I've made jelly the last two years from what I thought were mayhaws. After researching a little I learned that they were Swamp Gooseberrys. Slightly different from mayhaws and ripen a little later (late June). Not good off the vine but great for jelly.
Posted on 9/1/26 at 9:30 am to REB BEER
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Blackberries, huckleberries, muscadine, persimmon, oyster mushrooms, chantrelles, lion's mane, and anything else I can get my hands on that I know is edible.
I knew an old boy in Southern Illinois who was a goose guide in the season and, according to him at least, a world class mycologist. I don't know about all that because he was mostly a corn farmer BUT I know I have eaten some damned mushrooms he would pick and prepare that would make a rib eye steak embarassed of itself....
Posted on 9/1/26 at 9:35 am to Ramblin Wreck
How many of y'all remember sucking the nectar out of honeysuckle flowers? We though that was about as good as a candy bar when I was a kid. My granny and pawpaw had a massive honeysuckle patch adjacent to their drain field LOL...those were the tastiest anywhere around....talk about the circle of life LOL....
Posted on 9/1/26 at 9:35 am to Ramblin Wreck
as a kid we would empty a blackberry vine in no time.
Posted on 9/1/26 at 9:53 am to Ramblin Wreck
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I just noticed I have a muscadine vine
When we lived in Germany we become good friends with our neighbors. They were typical Europeans and consumed a LOT of wine....good wine too, as far as my north Georgia pallatte was concerned. The wife and I were at the mailbox one afternoon and she invited us over to try a new carbonated white they had recently bought. We went over that weekend and she served it and sure as hell it was muscadine wine LOL....Muscato in Germany but absolutely nothing more than carbonated muscadine wine. Being from North Georgia and having been away from home for about 3 years when this happened I agreed wholeheartedly that it was indeed a very good wine and never mentioned that my granny made about 5 gallons of it every year, minus the carbonation of course LOL....
A little known fact but the lowly muscadine saved a substantial amount of the European grape and wine industry. They had an insect infestation that nearly wiped out the entire industry and muscadine root stock was used, at least initially, to recover the industry due to its natural protection from that insect. I think this has changed to grape varieties from the US which came from Europe originally, for the most part, but at one time muscadines were the go to savior. All those snooty assed european wine snobs can thank the lowly muscadine...but they never will LOL....
Posted on 9/1/26 at 11:31 am to AwgustaDawg
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sucking the nectar out of honeysuckle flowers
I had forgotten about doing that.
Posted on 9/1/26 at 11:33 am to Ramblin Wreck
Dewberries. A dewberry cobbler is legit.
Posted on 9/1/26 at 11:35 am to Ramblin Wreck
BlackBerrys are my favorite and then those little local tangerine things but looks like a bad year for them.
Posted on 9/1/26 at 11:39 am to Ramblin Wreck
Prickly pears
Posted on 9/1/26 at 11:48 am to Ramblin Wreck
We got strawberries, blackberries, blueberries and loquats. Want to plant some tangerine trees next year.
Posted on 9/1/26 at 11:54 am to Ramblin Wreck
Blackberries, Persimmons during deer hunting season, and we used to pick those honey suckle flowers when we were kids.
Posted on 9/1/26 at 1:11 pm to Ramblin Wreck
I've eaten my share of blackberries and mulberries in my lifetime, but my main source for blackberries is now gone to the feral hogs out in N.O. East off Michoud Blvd. and my neighbors mulberry tree was cut down after he finally got tired of the dark blue bird crap all over his cars.
I do have a new source for blackberries since a friend bought a large piece of property and it is heavy in blackberry bushes-----the real kind with LOTS of thorns and the occasional snake hiding in them.
I do have a new source for blackberries since a friend bought a large piece of property and it is heavy in blackberry bushes-----the real kind with LOTS of thorns and the occasional snake hiding in them.
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