Just bought a house with these wine berry brambles all around the perimeter of one side of the yard. Excited to try the fruit! So glad I found this channel too.
I live in New Jersey and I just found this a few houses down growing on land! Picked them and they are delicious! Im going to try to cut a piece a put in a planter.
Great info and was unaware of how they propagated like that. Found my first patches in Connecticut this year. Love eating them frozen and what I noticed is the berries that look unripe do not impart a puckering effect like with unripe red raspberries or blackberries. That was what I noticed for a distinction. So if you see a lighter colored berry like almost orange and if it comes off easy will still taste good. Well it does so with me as everyone’s tastes are different. I want to make some pemmican with them when I get raw organic grass-fed butter and mix with raw meat.
I found a couple of very nice stands of these in central NYS, just east of Cayuga Lake, south of King Ferry. Delectably delicious! I'm glad to hear that these ARE controllable - I'd read that they're considered rampant, aggressively invasive, taking over wherever they're allowed entrance. I love the jewel-like colors of the ripe berries!
Yeah. I’m located just 20 minutes from mountain gardens, and here wine berry is I believe technically considered invasive. I’ve definitely seen patches of escaped wine berry, but never an amount that could threaten native plant populations. I have some in my garden and they are far more controllable than raapberries
Been picking these little treasures for 40 years around my land. Always knew of them as wild raspberries. Old fella just today saw me tending to 60 transplants I put in beside the house and told me they’re wineberry. We are both right because they are in the raspberry family and folks call them Japanese raspberry too. I loved you fantastic explanation of them. Thank you sir! I been making wineberry brandy for many moons. Gotta be my favorite shine.
@@rustingsun If you know how to make wine, you’re half way there. Our family recipe is a bit of a secret but if you make a big old batch of wineberry wine and run it through a well built still, then oak it a bit and let her set quite a spell you’ll get pretty dang close to a heavenly sippin’ nectar. Of course running a still would be illegal so you’d be doin’ it all simply fer the pleasure of making your own ethanol fuel if ya know what I mean. My engine’s been runnin’ smooth on ethanol fer years!
@@ldlink3935 Absolutely! Picked 35 pounds this year. Froze some, ate a bunch with cream and sugar, made some jelly, and of course my wineberry brandy. Eat ‘em up, they don’t last long before they’re done for the year.
After I took some cuttings from a plant in Roderfield WV I have a patch of them growing myself.What I find amazing is that they're pollinated by Insects.
@@sn232 I took cuttings and put them is a pan of sandy soil and put them in a shady spot for a year.They were struggling to survive so I tossed them over the hill dirt and all and they lived LOl I have them growing all over the place now.The birds have scattered the seeds!LOL
These are my favorite berries. They grow wild everywhere in my town including 1 in my garden. I'm gonna leave it. I was thinking of creating a living fence
It grows here in Preston County W.V. and I'm roughly a half hour drive from both the Pennsylvania and Maryland state lines, so I assume it grows in those states as well. Always thought it was Red Raspberry, but it looked a little odd and out of place.
I thought wine berry's had white under the leaves. I did not see that with his. What are the ones with red stalks and white under the leaves? One of those popped up this year and I wasn't sure whether to cut it down - as I heard they were invasive in the northeast. I'll keep it one more year: no fruit, out it goes.
Yes, im in sw va also. I've never noticed them anywhere else in the area before(probably b/c i want paying attention)but there's a patch of them growing across the rd. Think I'll get some cuttings & see what happens. I can't believe the deer don't eat them.
Another difference from a raspberry is that it's very shiny. It doesn't have the fuzzy texture of raspberry. Very smooth. They're about to bloom here in VA shortly, pretty excited.
I was happy when I first saw some years ago. But it is terribly invasive in my area. It has outcompeted the native blackberries and I hardly find them anymore.
