On Mon, 02 Jul 2007 13:45:10 -0700, Cindy Hamilton
> wrote:

>On Jul 2, 4:38 pm, Kate Connally > wrote:
>> The black raspberries are in so I drove out to Schramm's
>> Farm Market and got a pint. (If I could have afforded it I
>> would have bought all they had!) Anyway, I got some heavy
>> cream on the way home and for dessert last night I had a
>> giant bowl of berries with sugar and cream. Yum!
>
>I picked a couple of quarts out of my raspberry patch yesterday.
>Probably will get a couple more quarts Wednesday. They're
>dead easy to grow--do you have any space?
>
>Cindy Hamilton

Hi Cindy,

'It all depends'...

Where I grew up in PA, we used to go out around July 4 and pick dozens
of quarts of wild black rasperries. We ate all we could---which was a
lot, with 13 siblings---and Mom made preserves from the rest. We went
through 50 quarts or more of those preserves each year. Ambrosia!

Tried growing them about ten years ago, here in western KY. The
plants grew but no significant amount of fruit was ever produced.

I was amazed to find that almost no one in this end of KY, or in
eastern KY, or in the area of GA (Athens) where I've lived had ever
heard of black raspberries. "Y'all mean 'blackberries', don'tcha?"
[No, no, no, nononononNO! A world of difference!!]

Best -- terry