Blackberries are ripe!
 

I have a big canopy of thornless blackberry vines in the back yard. It's loaded down with blackberries. I picked a gallon this morning of big two inch blackberries. I have a blackberry cobbler in the oven. My grandmother use to make the best cobblers because she made her own curd from different fruits. I'm not that dedicated. I used this recipe from Pioneer Woman:

1/2 stick butter, melted, plus more for greasing pan

1 1/4 cups plus 2 tablespoons sugar

1 cup self-rising flour

1 cup whole milk

2 cups fresh (or frozen) blackberries

Whipped cream and/or ice cream, for serving


Directions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 3-quart baking dish with butter.
In a medium bowl, whisk 1 cup sugar with the flour and milk. Whisk in the melted butter.
Rinse the blackberries and pat them dry. Pour the batter into the baking dish. Sprinkle the blackberries evenly over the top of the batter. Sprinkle 1/4 cup sugar over the blackberries. Bake until golden brown and bubbly, about 1 hour. When 10 minutes of the cooking time remains, sprinkle the remaining 2 tablespoons sugar over the top.









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Yum, yum, yum.

Yum! We are still quite a bit away from blackberry time, and mostly what we have wild here are the bad thorny wild berries.

One of the vendors at our local farmer's market specializes in soft fruits, am going to let them pick them their lovely planted berries and I'll just have to pay. Right now it is still Strawberries, cherries will be coming soon along.

Oh my Goodness!!!!!!!!!! Fresh off the vine, you can't get any better than that!

Yummy! I wish I lived close by.

Blackberry cobble...oh that sounds so good. I am envious as they are one of my favorite berries :-)

I live in the south. You won't catch me picking wild berries. Not because of the thorns but because of chiggers.

thornless blackberries are not wild, they are a unique berry "bush" modified to grow without protective thorns. I planted six small plants several years ago within the fenced garden barrier, and they supply an abundant amount of berries each year with out the pain. I leave the wild berries for the deer and wildlife.

Lucky you! Our berries are just now flowering...no berries yet. Thanks for that recipe.

~ C

I have the thornless. I have to cut the runners back. I can't bear to toss them but I have too many and my friends all have enough to get rid of. They multiply fast. I have been planting them in the wooded areas around our neighborhood. We have acres of woods surrounding us.

Lucky you. I planted a bunch of thornless blackberry bushes for my sister as she loves them. Got some really nice berries off them too but found they took so much room and where I planted them just wasn't feasible so when my sister moved to a larger lot I dug them up and planted up at her place. Now she can take care of them. I had planted raspberries in my raised beds too and they have pretty much taken over. I went ahead and planted 4 additional white/cream raspberry bushes this year in place of the blackberries. The red seem to take over as the white ones do not. Right now my strawberries are producing so I'm taking time out everyday to pick them, sometimes twice a day. The plants are so loaded that the berries hide under the leaves so not many get taken by the birds. Enjoy your blackberries.

That is what I thought, MI is too far away for a quick trip.
The berries sure do look wonderful.

I've used this recipe with a large can of sliced peaches (with syrup) in place of the blackberries. Sprinkle a dash of cinnamon on the top with the sugar. This cobbler is yummy and lives up to its name -- "Lazy Day Dessert".

I live in Arkansas. When I lived in upstate NY, there were black and bronze raspberries growing in the back yard of
the house we rented. I was so pleased. We left NY in1977. Just this week I found a berry farm in central Arkansas that grows and sells red raspberries. I, of course,have already visited the farm and bought raspberries. The farmer told me that this is about as far south as raspberries will grow.

I enjoy eating them in pancakes.

Oh my Onebyone; I'm So jealous of all those lovely berries. My parents had 2 very long rows of thornless berries; they were soooooo good. I love them. Enjoy your bounty. They look scrumptious!