Anyone grow honeyberries?

[tikkalover]

Honeyberries, also known as haskaps, offer a unique taste that is often described as a blend of blueberry and raspberry, with a tart and sweet flavor profile. Some people find them to have a slight honey-like aftertaste as well. The intensity of the tartness can vary by variety.
Honeyberries are frequently compared to blueberries and raspberries, with some noting hints of blackberry, cherry, or even grape or kiwi in the taste according to some fruit experts.

 

[Fester]

Honeyberries, also known as haskaps, offer a unique taste that is often described as a blend of blueberry and raspberry, with a tart and sweet flavor profile. Some people find them to have a slight honey-like aftertaste as well. The intensity of the tartness can vary by variety.
Honeyberries are frequently compared to blueberries and raspberries, with some noting hints of blackberry, cherry, or even grape or kiwi in the taste according to some fruit experts.

Sounds pretty good. Are they hard to grow? Tried rasberies one time and that was a failure.

 

[Allen]

They are delicious, and easy to grow.

Based on my non-green thumb and taste buds.

 

[guywhofishes]

They’re easy to grow, hard to protect from birds, depending on location. Birds in our neighborhood are voracious and tenacious… seemingly willing to risk life/limb to eat every last one.

 

[Lycanthrope]

They’re easy to grow, hard to protect from birds, depending on location. Birds in our neighborhood are voracious and tenacious… seemingly willing to risk life/limb to eat every last one.

birds are crazy, ive been told that if you get enough berries in an area, you can essentially outproduce what the birds can eat. I know the birds were knocking a lot of my berries on the ground, as they were eating others. They seem less interested in berries on the ground than they are on the bush unfortunately.

Also Im exploring adding raptor habitat, if I can get some raptors to nest in proximity to my orchard, that will essentially solve my bird problem. I built a kestrel nest box and put it up a few years ago, but never got them to nest there, blackbirds did instead. I think it wasnt high enough off the ground. I got a few old telephone poles from a neighbor so Im going to put it up higher this summer and maybe get some to move in next year, hopefully.

Also birds HATE lasers, they make laser powered bird chasers that are essentially lasers mounted on a random moving head of sorts that is supposed to be very effective, but they arent cheap and I have no power source at my land yet, so Id have to figure out some kind of solar or pay to have power installed, which would cost a lot.

 

[luvcatchingbass]

birds are crazy, ive been told that if you get enough berries in an area, you can essentially outproduce what the birds can eat. I know the birds were knocking a lot of my berries on the ground, as they were eating others. They seem less interested in berries on the ground than they are on the bush unfortunately.

Also Im exploring adding raptor habitat, if I can get some raptors to nest in proximity to my orchard, that will essentially solve my bird problem. I built a kestrel nest box and put it up a few years ago, but never got them to nest there, blackbirds did instead. I think it wasnt high enough off the ground. I got a few old telephone poles from a neighbor so Im going to put it up higher this summer and maybe get some to move in next year, hopefully.

Also birds HATE lasers, they make laser powered bird chasers that are essentially lasers mounted on a random moving head of sorts that is supposed to be very effective, but they arent cheap and I have no power source at my land yet, so Id have to figure out some kind of solar or pay to have power installed, which would cost a lot.

I think I got a couple old school bird boomers sitting around

 

[Lycanthrope]

Trying to get 3 rows in before freeze... 2 rows of beast and one of Blizzard. About half done

 

[Maddog]

You are a steward of the land.

 

[Petras]

Trying to get 3 rows in before freeze... 2 rows of beast and one of Blizzard. About half done

Really wishing I would have planted ours this way. Oh well, Maybe the next batch!

 

[Retired-Guy]

You are going to have some great eating and wildlife habitat. Is there any water nearby?

 

[guywhofishes]

Really wishing I would have planted ours this way. Oh well, Maybe the next batch!

what does a guy use to install that fabric? a rental?

 

[Fester]

what does a guy use to install that fabric? a rental?

 

[Jiffy]

Nice work Lycan! It’s refreshing to see as we’re normally talking about the destruction of habitat.

 

[Davy Crockett]

Yup , keep up the good work, deer love browsing on small trees.

 

[Lycanthrope]

what does a guy use to install that fabric? a rental?

Local tree service guy has a machine that puts the fabric down, he does it at a / hour rate, cost me 500 to put down 5000 feet of fabric. The plastic cost about 1500, so 2k for the total project.

 

[Lycanthrope]

You are going to have some great eating and wildlife habitat. Is there any water nearby?

I have rural water and use drip irrigation. Some plants dont need it but haskap do unfortunately, at least until they are established.

 

[Retired-Guy]

What about water for wildlife? Any stock dams or sloughs around?

 

[Lycanthrope]

What about water for wildlife? Any stock dams or sloughs around?

at this point Id rather have less wildlife around, gonna bow hunt out there this fall, saw some rubs last year and deer prints this summer. Until my stuff is established, deer can do a lot of damage over a winter.

 

[Davy Crockett]

Honeyberries are pretty forgiving , the ones I got from you froze last spring and then deer nibbled them down to a stick after that. We still had berries last summer ,not many but they were tasty.