cross-posted from: https://crazypeople.online/post/21707244
We forgot that we bought one of these a few years back and just assumed it was totally wild. Looking back at our records we did plant one whip back in 2022 and it's no longer where we put it...so maybe it survived long enough to end up in some animals who then distributed them around the yard.
The pictured grouping is off the back deck.
7 Comments
PanGodofPanic@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 78d
This doesn't look like a thimbleberry, this looks like a black raspberry patch. I had a million patches of them around my house growing up and made tons of jam and pies from them. Thimbleberries are different, they're larger, softer, grow on larger leafed plants, and grow further north.
Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online · 2 pts · 78d
See this thread:
https://crazypeople.online/comment/9747065
PanGodofPanic@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 78d
Oh weird, I've never heard of the black caps being called thimbleberries before. I even looked at the wiki articles before I commented to be sure I wasn't making an idiot of myself ðŸ˜
Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online · 1 pts · 78d
Don't stress fam. Common names shouldn't be depended on for precision, but they are much easier to remember than the latin.
Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online · 3 pts · 79d
Bonus photo lol
Tempus_Fugit@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 79d
Nice. I have some black raspberries that grow in my backyard and they should be ripe in a few weeks. I'm going to make so many jars of jam. Do you have any plans for these?
Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online · 2 pts · 79d
No specific plans, I will probably just pop outside and eat them all when I spy the dark ones...
We have a rather...abundant patch of raspberries in the back which are quite far from maturity. I'm hoping those are abundant enough to make jam.