high bush cranberries

[guywhofishes]

Anybody have a good recipe/formula for jelly and/or syrup?







^^ one hour's picking by two people

p.s. they smell like sweaty feet - ha ha ha ha

 

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Wow! We planted two of these a few years ago. No berries yet. I didn’t even know what they look like but now know what I’ve been mowing around! Their potential, anyway! Thanks for the pictures. Wonder how old your bushes are?

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Wow! We planted two of these a few years ago. No berries yet. I didn’t even know what they look like but now know what I’ve been mowing around! Their potential, anyway! Thanks for the pictures. Wonder how old your bushes are?

Oops, my wife says we only planted only one! Wondering if they are self pollinating or do we need a second one to get those red berries? Might have to get out the shovel next spring - my aching back....

 

[guywhofishes]

These were wild - so they're everybody's bushes - ha ha, IF they can find them. And considering their location that seems like an outside chance unless they're foraging fools with wild fruit fever like galwhoforages and myself.

 

[KDM]

We planted a half a dozen high bush cranberries and they SUCK!!!! Most inedible edible berry we've ever planted. You can't add enough sugar to make a syrup or jam worth eating. They produce like crazy, but the little birds get all they want and then some. Maybe them wild ones are tasty, which wouldn't surprise me in the least. Man probably tried to "improve" on God's cranberry plant recipe and F'd it up, which is most likely what we got and why they don't taste good. Looks good through the computer guy, so I hope they eat just as well.

 

[guywhofishes]

We planted a half a dozen high bush cranberries and they SUCK!!!! Most inedible edible berry we've ever planted. You can't add enough sugar to make a syrup or jam worth eating. They produce like crazy, but the little birds get all they want and then some. Maybe them wild ones are tasty, which wouldn't surprise me in the least. Man probably tried to "improve" on God's cranberry plant recipe and F'd it up, which is most likely what we got and why they don't taste good. Looks good through the computer guy, so I hope they eat just as well.

ha ha ha - they might well suck!

we're making small test batch first so we don't waste any more sugar than necessary to find out if they are worth the time

a relative of mine really likes theirs - might be an acquired taste??

 

[SDMF]

^^ one hour's picking by two people

p.s. they smell like sweaty feet - ha ha ha ha

The people or the berries?

 

[guywhofishes]

KDM... did you perhaps get the European version? They supposedly taste horrible.

 

[KDM]

Haven't a clue Guy. They make one hell of a thick hedge though. If'n a guy wanted to plant stuff to feed birds, high bush cranberry would be pretty close to the #1 or #2 draft pick. I'll try to find out what we have and get back to you. Now I'm kind of interested myself. (Grin)

 

[Ponyroper]

Out doing land inspections in the badlands Friday and there were trees full of beautiful ripe chokecherries and buffalo berries. I thought the chokecherry season was long over with. Is this the normal time for ripe chokecherries?

 

[guywhofishes]

Haven't a clue Guy. They make one hell of a thick hedge though. If'n a guy wanted to plant stuff to feed birds, high bush cranberry would be pretty close to the #1 or #2 draft pick. I'll try to find out what we have and get back to you. Now I'm kind of interested myself. (Grin)

https://extension.umaine.edu/cranberries/highbush-cranberry/
they discuss differentiating them here


test batch galwhofishes made this am tasted great thank God (steam juicer)

but the house smells like Limburger cheese - just awful - ha ha

 

[guywhofishes]

Out doing land inspections in the badlands Friday and there were trees full of beautiful ripe chokecherries and buffalo berries. I thought the chokecherry season was long over with. Is this the normal time for ripe chokecherries?

chokecherries have about the most spread out period of pickable weeks as anything I can recall - one can find pickable trees for two month span I am betting

except for these crazy high bush cranberries - apparently you can go out in snow and pick em - I guess the birds leave them alone quite often

could be that the freakin smell takes months to die off!

 

[KDM]

"Petiolar glands" be damned. The berries on my bushes don't look anything like those in your pics and taste like shit, so I'm bettin' I got bent over the night stand and got the european model. Birds seem to like'em well enough so I guess they'll be stayin' where they are.

 

[guywhofishes]

ha ha - that really blows

 

[guywhofishes]

update: the house still smells like ass

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got 5.5 quarts from that pile

and the jelly is AWESOME dip for dove poppers