OT (Way OT) Thimble Berries

Brian G. NY · Sep 8, 2010

HYow many have eaten thimbleberries?
This has been a good year for them and they are quite big.
There were never enuf of "em to do anything with except pick and eat them when you came across a few.
We used to enjoy these as kids; we also ate "chokecherries" which aren"t too bad if left til they get really black ripe.
Anyhow, I have a nice little crop of thimbleberries next to my barn and I"m eating a few every day.
They are about 3/4" in diameter and the leaves are about 6" to 8" across; no sharp briars.

RayP(MI) · Sep 8, 2010

Look like what we called wild rasberries. We had some here on the farm a few years back. Think the turkeys harvested them bare too many years. Also has little blackberries, we called "black caps". Those disappeared when my dad tore out the stump fence they grew in. Oh, the memories!
When we were first married, we harvested blackberries the size of a woman's thumb off wife's grandma's farm. They grew wild. Sometimes had to stand on tip-toes, reach overhead to pick them. Condominiums grow there now.

Leroy · Sep 8, 2010

never heard of them

davejoe · Sep 8, 2010

I believe they have them up in Copper Harbor in the UP of Mi. You can buy thimbleberry jam at roadside stands. I understand it requires alot of sugar. Dave

bill b va · Sep 8, 2010

what do condominuims taste like ?

Jim SC · Sep 8, 2010

Ate loads of choke cherries every fall walking home from school in the late 40's and early 50's in Nebraska. Never saw a thimble berry. Mom made choke cherry jam, but I liked 'em best off the plant. (Choke cherry bushes hide plenty of pheasants then also.)

Anonymous-0 · Sep 8, 2010

WE dont have thimble berries in these parts of s.IND ,,CODOMINIUMS ??? they TASTE horrible! , and if you get one pretty soon they take over your entire farm ,. cause you CAN'T FARM PEACEFULLY WITH THEM DURN THANGS FOR NEIGHBORS....

RoyIA · Sep 8, 2010

I know what a condom is, but what the heck is an inium?

hayray · Sep 9, 2010

We have them here in Southern Michigan, but I have not seen any for years. We used to pick them as kids but we never had red ones, ours were black, but that is definitely the same leaf that we had and the plants grew usually deeper in the woods then raspberries and blackberrys. Also, never seen any this late in the year.

Mike (WA) · Sep 9, 2010

Lots of them around here. My grandkids love 'em.

RwEny · Sep 9, 2010

I have a lot of them on my "farm". they were early this year by about 2 weeks. I have eaten since I was a kid.

rhouston · Sep 9, 2010

we have those here southern N.Y. also. I can olny find them on the logging roads in the woods never more than a plant here and there though.

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