Berry Bushes that do well here

[Jiffy]

Your brussel sprouts look like they have a little chemical damage.

It’s a new variety

 

[Lycanthrope]

My golden currants grew well but are very hit or miss with berries, the black currants do much better. The already mentioned aronia berries, birds don't even seem to eat them and about can't give them away but grow very well. Chokecherries and Juneberries are classics but as mentioned the birds get my juneberries before i can most of the time, same with nanking cherries. Sand cherries did really well for me this last planting and i didn't mind the taste. I also have elderberries that are growing well but haven't eaten any yet, same with my nannyberry shrubs. Hardy cranberries grew well for me but boy are they tart, not sure how much sugar i would need to make them edible but it's a lot. Birds didn't seem to eat them either. I've also had the riverbank grapes do very well, they don't taste bad either.

Not a berry but i have russian almonds planted that grow very well and have nice pink/white flowers in spring. They sucker though and produce almonds that i haven't tried to eat yet because they can be bitter and contain cyanide.

My aronia hang on the bushes, often turning into raisins essentially, until we get some significant snow on the ground, then they all disappear quite quickly. I think at that point pheasant/grouse go after them. One year a whole 300ft row of berries disappeared in just a week or two in early winter.

 

[Tymurrey]

My aronia hang on the bushes, often turning into raisins essentially, until we get some significant snow on the ground, then they all disappear quite quickly. I think at that point pheasant/grouse go after them. One year a whole 300ft row of berries disappeared in just a week or two in early winter.

I don't see a lot of winter use on the berries but maybe i just don't notice as much. I planted some redosier dogwood for winter berries for the birds. I figured the sand cherries would get hit hard by the birds but last year they didn't seem to get pressured to much. Maybe I just have more berries than the birds can eat.

Did you have a terrible spring for tent caterpillars like i did. I went through a lot of spray this spring. Also do you have any experience with the russian almonds and if good for anything.

 

[BrokenBackJack]

When I was a Lad, we had some berry trees when the folks planted a new shelterbelt. Some of them had a black berry but I don't remember the name, (too many strokes).

 

[guywhofishes]

"You're gonna want to net Juneberries or Honeyberries if you live along a river corridor with birds. Coons can raise hell too. PITA."

I have a really nice Benelli 20 gauge Montifeltro you can borrow. You may want custom black camo also.

I got better things to do with my time. They have reinforcements without end.

Don't ask me how I know this.

 

[Lycanthrope]

I don't see a lot of winter use on the berries but maybe i just don't notice as much. I planted some redosier dogwood for winter berries for the birds. I figured the sand cherries would get hit hard by the birds but last year they didn't seem to get pressured to much. Maybe I just have more berries than the birds can eat.

Did you have a terrible spring for tent caterpillars like i did. I went through a lot of spray this spring. Also do you have any experience with the russian almonds and if good for anything.

no experience with almonds, tons of tent worms around bismarck also. I kept a blow torch in my truck and gave them 3rd degree burns every time I found a new nest that I could reach.

 

[Lycanthrope]

I netted about 20 of my haskap bushes this year so got a pretty good harvest. If you aren't growing them I would suggest it.

Started a lot of cuttings this year so plan to expand my orchard significantly.

Also have a lot of Juneberry seedlings, not sure how many I should plant at my land. It's hard to know what kind of demand there is for stuff like this.

 

[USMCGrunt]

Goose berries grow well around here. I dug up a few bushes in my ravine and planted them in a shady spot around the yard and they‘ve grown to put out quite a few nice berries.

 

[1lessdog]

Choke Cherry will be ready in a few weeks. The Black Birds move in pretty quick and will strip them in a few days. Last year I got two, 5 qt pails before the Birds moved in. This year a gun may get involved. I like the jam and syrup more than the Birds. Elder Berry's will be crazy again this year.

 

[D-Racer]

Choke Cherry will be ready in a few weeks. The Black Birds move in pretty quick and will strip them in a few days. Last year I got two, 5 qt pails before the Birds moved in. This year a gun may get involved. I like the jam and syrup more than the Birds. Elder Berry's will be crazy again this year.

I'm the same way with our juneberries and robins that think they belong to them....WRONG!!!

 

[guywhofishes]

I'm the same way with our juneberries and robins that think they belong to them....WRONG!!!

I netted and e-fenced our small patch (15x30 ft) for coons.

We’re going to get between 5 and 10 gallons of perfect black Juneberries before it’s over. The wife and my Mom have been picking for hours and hours -at a leisurely pace and only when they’re shaded in the morning because there’s no rush to beat those robbing ahole birds.

It took some work to figure out how to net and fence, but now it’s just gonna be how we do it every year. The lack of stress for me (the security guard) is awesome.

 

[Lycanthrope]

Finished picking my haskap yesterday, they produced really well this year.