Fresh Blackberries From The Garden

I love to put blackberries into my smoothies. I never knew they were easy to grow! They can get pricey at the market.

Still a bit early for blackberries here, another month or so and then we will be picking them. . . We have gooseberries, goji berries, black currents, red currants, loganberries, honeyberries in the garden at the moment. . . Cranberries will be soon!

Just put them in a bowl with some whipped cream on them and I am ready to eat them.

I wish we could grow blackberries here.

I think a blackberry pie or crumble is my favorite but I do love them in just about any recipe.

These look lovely plump fruit. That's great that you can pick your own from your own bush.

I used to pick wild blackberries and make lots of blackberry jam for the family. I did not use them in any sophisticated way. Now, wild berries have disappeared as all the country is being used with fruit and vineyards.

I love a blackberry frozen yogurt shake - any thing of the year

Gosh blackberries are never ready until the end of August in the UK. We used to go pick wild blackberries every summer. My mother used to make jam, crumble etc etc. I still love blackberries. I think I would prefer the cobbler!

Very nice fruit. I usually buy red berries. i will try to blue blackberries. Thanks for the info.Berries do not grow in our hot place.

I love blackberries and mostly eat them fresh when I can get them. I'm glad they're easy to grow. Serving them with ice cream sounds very good.

@LadyDuck either way sounds great. I love them with ice cream and whipped cream. If there is not enough of them to make a pie I like to mix different berries together and make a pudding, berry, whipped topping parfait.

They don't grow here. They only grow at the coast. Now and then I get a chance to pick some. At the grocery store they never taste good. :(

I never have the patience to wait with black berries, always pop them in my mouth thinking only this but then comes next,next next and before l know it, i`ve eaten all

They look absolutely perfect! I always prefer the flavour of hedgerow blackberries (also, of course, you don't have to cut them back - just get wounded wnen you pick them) and, for the garden, I would buy the thornless variety (less invasive and much easier to prune - and the fruit is nearly as good). My favourite recipes for blackberries would be blackberry and apple pie (the addition of apples improves and enhances the flavour) and blackberry and apple jelly (the apples add pectin, in this case, and straining the pulp through a jelly bag is well worth while because the pips are a nuisance and get stuck in one's teeth).

I haven't ever tasted one because we don't have that here . How does it taste ? Is it sweet ?

Oh I have never try black berry, it is taste sweet. I have Mulberry only.

Blackberry muffins are really good and I love making homemade ones.

Blackberry and apple pie or crumble - both delicious, and i prefer them with thick custard - lovely. Luck you to have your own berries from your garden.

They grow wild around here. The best I've seen were up in Oregon, near a waterfall. My favorite recipe? Find. Avoid the thorns. Pull. Eat.