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