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["Stephen Sadler" <Docshiva@Docshiva.org>]

Thanks for posting this.  Are they just sweet?  Any richness, complexity, or tartness?  Did you make any preserves with them?  I had not given these a try in case they were garden-yuckleberry-like. 

 

~ Stephen

 

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From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Lon J. Rombough
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 11:46 AM
To: North American Fruit Explorers
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Garden Huckleberry

 

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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