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Picking thornless blackberries is supposed to be relaxing. Now I'm looking everywhere...twice! Don't like snakes!!!!!!!!

If my passwords didn't have profanity I wouldn't remember them. 🤣

Well, sir, I admire your resolve, dedication, and energy! I plant in rows intending to have something neat and tidy but I always end up with a rectangle. They multiply like crazy and I can't bare to trim. Thank goodness there are no thorns!

Super easy. As mentioned, if the tip touches the ground it will root. That will get you one new plant. Do you want one new plant? Not me. I've done raspberry, thornless blackberry, and last year it was wild black raspberry. You need to sacrifice a primocane. (Must be primocane!) I cut into...

Bramble multiply like crazy and you'll have a boatload in no time. Last year I harvested 6.6 lbs of black raspberries and made an absolutely delicious wine. This year my haul was 30.2 lbs! VERY happy!

Finally! After two and a half months, my very first dry aged charcuterie, hot capicola. I'm incredibly happy! The flavor is phenomenal! Why didn't I start this hobby (and wine making!) twenty years ago?!

Bramble are super easy to propagate!

No. Yeast can't read. It may stop at 12% or it may stop at 16%. A few days of no SG change is a better indicator with a number closer to .990 being more likely. First post! Welcome to the forum. I'll be starting a blackberry myself once I'm done harvesting.

Beautiful! Today was my 6th day in a row of 3 lbs of wild blackberries. Never had a harvest like this! And my thornless are just getting warmed up and they are gigantic.

Yeah, what is it with blackberries this year? I have a huge crop, too, and the berries have never been this big. And not EXTREMELY tart acid bombs like some years. Looking at my first no water blackberry wine. So many berries, I may even do jam!

Black raspberry harvest is done. This week I started the daily task of harvesting blackberries - wild on the left, thornless on the right.

I haven't made pineapple wine but I've added it to a few. In small quantities it tastes strawberry-like. In fact, I added it to a strawberry wine and I swear it boosted the strawberry flavor. I'm glad you posted! I agree with the others, you would have been disappointed with 2 cans, no doubt in...

The slimy from the Rose of Sharon made my wine more viscous but it wasn't unpleasant. I liked the wine and will make it again some day. I think okra has more of that mucous-like stuff. If I had good tasting okra available I'd try wine.

Me too! Very first wine was raspberry from the garden, already had enough jam. Very tasty following a recipe with 3.5 lbs fruit. Live and learn - delicious with 6+ lbs fruit!

Welcome to WMT! That sliminess of the okra would probably affect mouthfeel. With my Rose of Sharon, also "slimy", you'd think I added a healthy dose of glycerine.

Yeah, I agree. And it seems once you positively identify a plant it's difficult to un-learn.

Well..... I have moonseed growing next to the wild grapes in a couple spots. I have to watch what I pick. Leaf shape tells a lot.

My two cents... Sugar and salt will never ever go bad. Stock up when prices are good. I have a 6-gallon bucket of sugar for wine making that gets topped off whenever it gets half empty. I also have 3 6-gallon with gamma lids filled that don't get touched. For emergencies.😄

Well, I've done black walnut leaf and vine wine, both delicious. Still need to try oak and some sap wines are on the list. The box elder is in the maple family...hmmm.....

If it IS box elder - and it looks like it - I would be hesitant to plant. Fast growing, almost invasive, starts spreading seeds before it has leaves. I yank dozens and dozens (and dozens) every year. They pop up EVERYWHERE! Lousy firewood but good for kindling. It's an attractive tree but that...