The blackberries are coming!
June 30th, 2011 | Author: Sebastian
The blackberries are coming! Many of you know about My Organic Garden and have seen pictures of it or heard me tweet about it on Twitter or talk about it on Facebook. If you read my blog (please see hyperlink above) you may remember my infamous gazania eating bandit: Larry The Squirrel. What Larry doesn’t know about, and he’s not gonna find out anything about, is my incredible berry patch.
Over two years ago my friend Skip and I bought an Organic Duarte Blackberry starter. It was one stem in a can about eight to twelve inches high. We really weren’t sure it was going to take, but, what the heck. We put it in the ground and watered it routinely. Boy were we surprised! This bush took off like a shot! Now it’s over six feet high and about twenty feet long. We’ve had to cut it back about five or six times this year as it’s been in continual expansion mode.
The blackberries are coming! The blackberries are coming! Wow look at them in these pictures! There must be over a million of them! OK maybe that’s exaggerating a tiny bit, but, there are a lot of berries! Frankly, I’m very excited as this will be our second harvest.
I know what you’re thinking, why the hell is Sebastian blogging about Blackberries? This is supposed to be a blog about Tech, Social Media, Branding and Marketing only. LOL Luminous ROC has become more about all things Luminous and especially topics and categories that I am passionate about. I am especially passionate about health, diet, exercise, eating right and organic gardening.
To maintain top performance in the Marketing and Branding world one needs to be healthy. Blackberries are very high in antioxidants. There have been many articles written about value of berries and their miraculous ability to aid in the prevention of disease and the effects of oxidative stress to the cells.
And they taste great! Shhh just promise me you won’t tell Larry The Squirrel!
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Ron and I both LOVE blackberries … nevermind Larry the squirrel … we’ll be sneaking in the backyard to take them and leaving a note from Larry to throw ya off. Oh wait, I probably shouldn’t have told you that.
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LOL that’s hilarious! Hopefully Larry and his “friends” don’t get the memo. Also the MANY green parrots we have too! We had an almond tree…. I say “had” the parrots eat the ENTIRE tree…. literally! They partied until they literally killed the tree
LOL
Looks like you are going to have a great harvest this year! I bet your friends and neighbors are glad they are your friends LOL Don’t worry mum is the word re: Larry The Squirrel. That rascal!
Exactly Sebastian,blackberries are not just healthy blackberry bushes look very nice:)
LuminiousRoc is in so right way of discussing important global issues. Technology and of course social media are top in a level now,but never forget to talk about healthy,environment all good values which this world definetely have to follow.
Thank you bro once again so great post and all the best to your blackberries-:)
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Thanks Matti! Very nice of you to say! I appreciate that! Keep rocking my friend!!!!
Great post Sebastian. Bberries… the ones we eat… not email with are great antioxidents. Mix with cottage cheese of fat free plain yougurt with a touch of granola….great post workout meal…. enjoy
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Blackberries!! I’ve been adding wood ash around the base of mine which helps sweeten them up if you have soil like we do! *CLAY* It really has worked well! Now about your squirrel…stop sending him over to my garden! ;P
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Thanks Jean for the Tip!!! Awesome!!! The soil is AMAZING! It’s like silt – you can just drop seeds on the ground and they will grow. Our Beet patch we just let one beet grow to the size of literally a bowling ball and then go to seed. That Beet has spawned an enormous beet patch with a ton of wild beets. It’s incredible!
I will also try some wood ash around the base! Thank You! You Rock!!!! Xoxoxoxo
It may be a blog about blackberries..but I personally think squirrels network too..
Very cute article and I’m hungry now!
Hilarious! Thanks Lori! yes they do! I caught Larry and pack of 5 of his friends raiding my organic apricot tree! I broke up the party – you should have heard them! They scattered w/ my precious apricots in their mouths. LOL
Sebastian,
We have a “volunteer” blackberry bush in our backyard’s corner. It’s just there. We never spray it, but we hack it back in the fall and ENJOY it’s harvest in the summer. Here in Oregon, blackberries grow everywhere, and people will stop their cars on the side of roads to get out and pick them … which I worry about because a lot of the bushes alongside the roads are sprayed. My husband works in a truck salvage yard where the bushes grow up around the old trucks, and we pick those to our heart’s content. Can you say “Blackberry jam with organic cane sugar”…? Yum!
OMG Bethany that sounds incredible! I know it’s the same way in Santa Cruz! My old biz partner had an huge empty field that led to the harbor across from his house. We used to walk through it and pick millions of berries off these blackberry trees that were over 8 feet high!! It was incredible!! Plus some of the berries were almost as long as your pinky. It was OUT of this world!!! LOL
wow thats a lot of Blackberries I could trade you for some raspberries very soon.. if the squirrels dont get them before me..
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Very Cooooool! Ohhh I didn’t we have raspberries and blueberries coming in soon too! But hey if you were here I would gladly give you some! I really don’t want one berry to go to waste – they are that precious to me
I LUUUUUUUUIUUV blackberries … always have! I remember when my grandmother used to make home-made blackberry preserves and ship them to us from her garden/kitchen in Alabama. Yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuum!
Thanks for the mouth-watering post, Sebastian.
I did plant a various selection of trees but black berry wasn’t successful for me, we have no squirrels; may be it is a good chance to try again;)
I love too much your organic garden!
Great blog. I won’t spill the beans, er, blackberries to Larry.
Hilarious! Thanks Gregg!
Too funny ~ Larry is a very cute squirrel! I wish I had blackberries to pick, I am always buying them and blueberries and raspberries at the grocery store. Your Organic Garden looks great!! Thanks xoxo
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They look soooooooooooooooooooooooooo good! I want some!
I ADORE blackberries….and it looks like you’ll have plenty there for anything you want to do. Blackberry jam is my favorite. My Gram used to make it. Lucky you!
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