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  • From: Lucky Pittman <Lucky.Pittman@murraystate.edu>
  • To: nafex@yahoogroups.com
  • Subject: [nafex] Garden huckleberries
  • Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 12:03:48 -0600

At 08:13 AM 03/23/2002 -0600, Donna wrote:

> I'm afraid that writers for Pomona may not have much to say about
>their fruit crops in 2002. Maybe it will be a year for writing about garden
>huckleberries (yechh!!!) and ground cherries. I've tried them in cobblers
>with apples, and the ground cherries are pretty decent.

Yechh! is right.

I grew those infamous 'garden huckleberries' (Solanum melanocerasum, if I
remember the scientific name correctly) one year in MO. Beautiful plants,
about 3-4 ft tall, big clusters of white blossoms & big clusters of juicy
blue-black berries, bigger than any of the selected blueberry varieties.
BUT!!! Even after boiling, leaching, and treatment with baking soda to
'neutralize' toxins, and addition of lots & lots of sugar, grape juice, and
a little lemon juice, pies & jams left me with a very discomforting
metallic aftertaste, suggesting that all the toxic alkaloids had not been
removed or neutralized.



Lucky Pittman
USDA Zone 6
Hopkinsville, KY


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