Blackberries by Henry F.

Henry F.

Blackberries

-Black berries are not a true fruit but a aggregate fruit

-The black berry flowers are produced in late spring and early summer the flowers are 2-3 cm wide

-Many things like to eat the leaves of blackberries such as caterpillars and mammals like deer

-The actual blackberry fruit grows grows around June in the South and July in North

-Through the course of time lots of diseases were believed to be cured with blackberries such as the ancient Greeks who thought the berries were a cure for a sore throat and the soldiers who fought in the civil war used the blackberries as a cure for dysentery.

                          Blackberry storage methods and picking tips

-Blackberries are ripe when they are dark black, come off the vine easily and are plump; don’t pick the berries unless they are black because they will not ripen anymore.

-If you have a bucket and you stack the blackberries more than five inches the blackberries will bruise so use different buckets.

-If you are picking in a field try to leave your blackberries in the shade

-If you wash blackberries they will spoil quickly so don't wash until you are ready to eat them.

-Blackberries spoil in a week in the fridge they will lose color, flavor and will shrivel up.

-If you want to freeze blackberries wash them off, dry them off and put them in a airtight bag and freeze them

Wikipedia August 4 2013 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackberry

Pick your own http://www.pickyourown.org/toc.htm