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  • From: Alex McGregor <waldenfarm AT sprintmail.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: RE: Info on huckleberries?
  • Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 14:55:37 -0400


Allison,

Whet we have growing here is what I have always thought was huckleberries-
not a
bramble at all. The bushes, leaves and fruit are just like blueberries, only
smaller. They're sweet and taste just like blueberries. Since most of the
flavor of blue & huckleberries is in the skin, huckleberries have a lot more
flavor per pint than blueberries.

I was thinking that what someone else described or bought as huckleberries may
be from some other part of the country or a cultivar.

Alex McGregor
Walden Farm

"Wiediger, Alison" wrote:

> I've been following this thread, and wonder whether we are all talking about
> the same plant. What Alex is describing sounds like a bramble. I know we
> have a bramble in the southeast - kin to blackberries, raspberries,
> dewberries - that we call a huckleberry. It is not the same as the plant
> described in the first post which sounds like a nightshade. The bramble
> would indeed be an understory plant, suited to the edge of woods, etc. The
> nightshade would probably need to be handled more like tomatoes, eggplant,
> peppers. What do ya'll think ? Maybe I'm just not following this morning





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