How high is the risk of getting a fox tapeworm infection at the place where you live? (Blackberries are underrated, but the small chance to die from eating one in the wild...)

I hadn’t heard of this! It thankfully isn’t here yet.

I foraged 1.8kg early august and 1.2kg again last week, 3 pies in total plus the rest in the freezer now. Blackberries ftw !

Bought a $2 clearance blackberry bush at Lowe’s a couple years ago and it yields 3-4 pounds thru 4 weeks in the early summer. Super sweet and tons of flavor. It is definitely one of the best backyard fruits to grow.

We went to the free blackberry thickets by the river to pick for cobbler and jam when I was young. Good memories.

And this is why I have both a raspberry and blackberry bush at home. I was surprised how fat the first batch of berries I got were.

Sometimes you pay $7 for a little pack of ones that aren't quite ripe, and the memory lingers. If they're ripe, though . . .

I just pluck them for free for like three months, there’s an enormous bramble nearby. Few things as good as free blackberries.

Better: Having thornless blackberry bushes...

Honestly, the best are the wild varietals we have here. Incredible flavor, but not a lot of fruit and deer gobble them up as soon as they appear.

Blueberries da best, but blackberry is S-tier. Probably my fave fruit pie, but definitely Julia Child’s favorite.

Those are brambles.

Perfect for snacking, adding to beverages, making pies, making ice cream or sorbet. Flawless.

Ah so you've never had a garden then

Thorns and having too many blackberries is a very “I’m too fussy about my garden” problem

Those aren't the issue, the problem is that if you have blackberries in your garden, then the blackberries ARE your garden. Probably your lawn too. And eyeing the house hungrilly

I was recently thinking back 40 years to simpler times when any success in a garden was a novelty and a plant now deemed invasive was thought a real performer- Cough-Virginia-cough-creeper-cough- and the notion that this interesting-looking thing that just showed up on its own deserved a chance.

Mine die back completely every winter which allows for ample time to prune

Oh, we've pretty much got "rainy season" here instead of "winter", very different situation

And they just grow wild

Minimal labor cost?

A bold choice of hill to die on.

Oh a blackberry hater? Go off solo with your trash take.

No I like blackberries. I thought s-tier meant sh*t-tier.

Same

lol, no S is above A

Good to know. We have a blackberry bush in my yard that we planted and it is intent upon taking everything over with runners. The berries are fabulous

We were back in Ireland recently and rode the Greenway from Tralee to Fenit with my kids. There were blackberries the whole way there and back. We were snacking the whole time. A+ experience all round