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Best raspberry experiences I’ve had were in my backyard or on hiking trails.
These guys have kind of ruined all the wild raspberries around me https://extension.umn.edu/yard-and-garden-insects/spotted-wing-drosophila
They came here about 15 years ago and now all our wild blackberries have them.
It’s fine as long as you wash and freeze the berries immediately after you get home. Else you get larvae.
Oh no, that sucks. I was up there in northern Wisconsin about 15 to 20 years ago. Sometimes I would see bugs on berries, but not often.
It’s all fun and games until you get raspberries popping up all over your yard. These fuckers have managed to travel over 10 feet to different garden plots somehow.
Im eventually going to carve out a spot for raspberries. I imagine you have to weed the area often so it doesnt spread where you dont want it to.
Birds will eat them and poop out the seeds. You cannot contain brambles.
When it grows in lawn or other movable areas you can just mow it down. But if it gets to other plots, yeah you gotta pull em.
It’s kinda like mint? By not nearly as prevalent.
Yep. I mow them off to keep them confined to certain areas. But they spread worse than thistles.
I’ve only been to places like the pnw when the berries are ripe a few times in my life. I’ve always wanted to go for like a month and just live off the berries that just grow everywhere. That’s such a unusual thing for me to see and its amazing.
I grew up in the desert Southwest, where I never saw berries. Maybe there are some in the mountains. I don’t know. I moved up to the great Lakes area and there are a ton growing wild. I lived in this one house that bordered a forest in the back and they were just so many raspberries. We just walk out and snack on them. My friend said they were highbush and little bush, blueberries, but I’ve never learned to identify those.Also, walking around the south shore of Lake Superior, there are amazing berries called thimbleberries. A thimbleberry is like a raspberry, in that it’s made out of a bunch of little dots too, but each blib is smaller. It’s so cool that you can just walk around in the woods and find a complimentary snack.
I’m nomadic but mainly stay in the rockies. There are strawberries in higher altitudes like >9k ft, but always tiny and grazed by the deer and other wild life. But I’ve been to the PNW when there are ripe blueberries, reneir(?) white cherries, blackberries, raspberries, every one of those types, then others like huckleberry I think, different style fruiting with round red berries. There’s just food everywhere and it blows my mind. If I lived in a place like that I could forage a years worth of berry jam just on a daily stroll through the woods.
Just fyi, it’s Rainier, like the mountain. And the neat thing about spelling Mount Rainier, (and also the cherries) is that it’s spelled exactly like “more rainy, having more rain” which is a pretty good description except for winter when it should be Mount Snowier.
Lol, yeah I could’ve just looked it up but that shows me. I’m not from there. I love those cherries, I ate like 10lbs because they won’t let you into Canada with them. The border guards were like yeah I get it at first but then it probably got to a concerning level.
Which desert do you mean? the Atacama desert?
Hmm, no. I mean the southwestern US. Sorry I wasn’t clear on that.
Go during blackberry season and it doesn’t matter where you are wilderness, city, whatever, and you’ll have your fill and then some. Moved to Sweden and I saw blackberries for sale and I was so shocked I shit myself right there in the store. They’re an invasive weed that happens to be edible in Seattle people spend good money to get rid of them, and here it costs good money to get them
Employees go through the canisters and pick out the obviously moldy ones. They’re trying to work fast, though, so they can miss some that aren’t obvious. The decay can also get much, much worse just in the time the product sits on the shelves, depending on how good the refrigeration in that exact spot is.
Anyway, open them up and examine before purchase. The employees will not mind, it’s what they’d do too.
edit: Assuming there’s no sticker. If they’re sealed with a sticker then I wouldn’t break it.
Given that people were licking ice cream a couple years ago, I’m not sure people would be OK with things being opened up in the store.
Yeah, that’s … unfortunate. Can always just ask one of them if it’s cool.
I open the pack and shuffle them around. I went through about 10 packs of strawberries yesterday… all were fucked and still being sold.
I bought none. next time, I’m throwing the bad crap to the side, and filling a thing with strawberries from multiple packs.
I’m done being nice in grocery stores…
They’re super low maintenance to grow. Plant them in open dirt, not one of those strawberry pots, and they will reproduce themselves by sending out above ground runners. And they taste better.
Super easy IF you have the right climate. IF.
And a yard
Most kinds of berries will grow in a pot, if you have a balcony and the right weather. I have mildew problems with my strawberries but my blueberry bush makes enough for one pie one day and a little snacky bite on a lot of other days.
What climate will they not grow in besides arctic zones?
They grow pretty far up north in Canada.
They really dont keep well,but they are easy to grow.
In fact, they are very hard to kill.
If anyone needs raspberries or blackberries I have about a billion tons ready to go soon… Bring buckets.
You’re not kidding. They spread all over, too. My dad planted a few raspberry bushes in the yard when I was a kid, and soon enough they spread all along one side of the house. They grew so many berries that we could never keep up, so new plants kept popping up from the fruit that dropped.
Some produce is just hard to sell supermarket style 🤷♂️ we get raspberries delivered daily at work and we do indeed have to turn and burn a fair portion of them due to mold or just being a mushy mess. We do blackberries too but we get those frozen and just turn them in to a sauce which is suuuuper tasty stuff
Was about to say: raspberries freeze really well. It’s a bit tricky to thaw them without damage, and they don’t taste or look as good as fresh ones from the bush, but the little plastic containers at the supermarket are the worst.
Things melt faster now. You can lose a pint of berries overnight. Plant your own. We’re on 75 strawberry plants with 30 more fridged for next year. Recommend Hoods. They’re the strawberriest of strawberries. Small, but punchy with flavor. Low maintenance. They spread like weeds.
Raspberries are weeds. You can plant them in a giant pot or raised bed and prune them.
I’ve given up on garlic, as another example, planting a raised bed of the stuff instead. That stuff used to be good for a couple weeks. Now, it disintegrates in days.
This is just another way to steal our money. Selling us the trash produce they used to throw out.
My store has them in plastic containers you can rattle around and see most of them. Hopefully “iamstarvingaf” just means they’re always hungry, and not a poor person spending their food money on fucking raspberries.
Damn where are you buying raspberries? My local grocery store has two of the little boxes for $4
let’s not forget about their feature of the bonus 300% to mould speed growth if you as much as think about washing them
I’ve always been cursed with bad strawberry selection. Other people picked strawberries from the same grocery stores that turned out great, but mine were always rotten when I went to eat them.
Anyway, turns out strawberries don’t last for several days. You pretty much have to eat them same day. Everyone else knew this but me, who would open them up four days later.
As long as you keep them in an airtight container in the fridge, they should last a few days. Assuming there isn’t already a mouldy one in the pack when you buy it, which seems to be a regular occurrence for me.
I bought raspberries today for £1 and they were in immaculate condition.
Just another L for the US.
I get mine for free. Wild raspberries grow all over my yard. Those little flavor bombs taste 100 times better than the oversized and ruined flavorless commercial varieties you spent money for. So take an “L” yourself.
I would pity you, but I’m to busy eating early morning dew washed wild high bush raspberries.
Better to buy frozen berries for this reason.
Huh. Weirdly mine never do that. But to be fair I “buy” them from the potted raspberry plants I grow out back. The biggest problem I have is getting them before the birds notice…
Being I normal Lemmy user I automatically presumed the post was talking about raspberry pis. I was confused.
I just inspect them before they go in the container. Not sure why I would bring them to the store though.
