[NAFEX] Garden Huckleberry
Lon J. Rombough
lonrom at hevanet.com
Thu May 24 14:45:39 EDT 2007
I have some Solanum burbankii, the Wonderberry, that is pleasantly
sweet to eat fresh, but it's messy to handle because the berries are
soft and juice a lot when picked. It self-seeds quite a bit and the
seedlings regularly come up early and they take a surprising amount of
frost. I have a lot of them already over 6 inches tall. They would be
larger if they weren't crowded.
-Lon
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On May 24, 2007, at 11:30 AM, Lucky Pittman wrote:
At 10:28 PM 5/23/2007, Donna wrote:
> Beware of Garden huckleberry, yuck!!!
Amen to that!
I grew some (Solanum melanocarpa) one year - big, vigorous plants,
producing huge clusters of handsome blue-black berries.
But, despite leaching and baking soda treatment - as directed - and
lots of sugar, grape juice concentrate and lemon juice for flavor and
acidity, the jam and pies I made with them always had this lingering
metallic aftertaste that was just....unsettling. Made me think that
perhaps I'd not managed to remove all the toxic alkaloids.
Lucky
> We grew some of the usual kind as
> well as some sweet ones from Tim Peters. The blister beetles really
> sent
> for the sweet ones, I guess they know a good thing, and left the
> bitter ones
> alone. Even cooked, the garden huckleberries had a nauseating
> bitterness.
> The sweet ones were actually quite good, but it was a constant
> struggle to
> keep the blister beetles from scarfing the plants up entirely. Donna
>
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