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  • From: "Bill Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT inil.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] HELP with Sunberry aka Wonderberry??
  • Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 14:06:32 -0500

I'd like to hear more too. It's an interesting crop that is little known.


>Hi Growing Folk!
> I need some small help. My experimental variety of the year, is
>Solanum Burbankii - Sunberry or Wonderberry. If i had known how
>prolifically these fruited, i'd have planted just a few plants! I have
>so many of these, that i really need to learn what good uses to make of
>them. The internet only comes up with using them cooked and sweetened as
>a pie filling. They taste like a cross between tomatoes, berries, and
>watermelon! They are very easy to pick, as they grow in clusters that
>ripen pretty much at the same time.
> I just picked my first small bucket full and am going to experiment
>making a simple pie with Apple Pie spices. Next, i will try to invent a
>smoky salsa with chipotles and mild peppers - perhaps using some of the
>Green Zebra Tomato crop for color IF these black berries do not stain the
>other ingredients!
> Have any of you experience with these unusual things? I would love to
>hear what you have done with them. I searched for a few internet hours
>and came up fairly emptyhanded of ideas/recipes.
>HELP!
>Thanks,
>Toni in "Mater"-land, Kentucky
>
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