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Man, I miss huckleberries... lucky duck :drool. Yes, you can use about any berry with that recipe.

Do you have chokecherries around there? You can make some really good syrup and jelly out of that too. I remember one time my mom got some of her friends together and they did a big batch of both on the same day. They must have been having too much fun because the stuff that ended up in the syrup bottles gelled and was really hard to get out and the syrup ended up in the jelly jars! :lol:
 

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I actually don't know the names of all the berries we have growing here, or close by here. By far, we have mostly salmonberry, which aren't that great. This property is like one big salmonberry patch!

I don't think we have chokecherries though.

We had a very nice evening, the whole family together, barbequing. It stopped raining! Our granddaughter is the cutest........
 
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Just popped in to say hi, SD! I've never heard of salmonberry. It must not grow in the deep south. We have wild black raspberries that the locals call dewberries, but the true dewberry is a different member of the rubus family. We also have a berry called Mayhaw that grows near the swamps, and wild grapes called Muscadine grapes.
 

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Here is a link to it, if anyone is interested. http://images.search.yahoo.com/imag...i=11miahgvk&sigb=12qtl59mj&.crumb=gGIa2jrAF12 The only thing about this berry remotely interesting is that bears are supposed to like it, I guess an alternate name is "bear berry", but the berries taste very....plain. I can't say they have much flavor at all. I've thought of making a jam, but I'd have to maybe mix the fruit with something real strong flavored to make it very flavorful, and I've never seen a recipe for salmon berry jam.

The plant also has thorns, so I've been trying to get the goats to eat as much of it as possible.

They are predicting "summer" weather for us today, but I actually heard the weather person back off her forecast this morning, saying she hoped the day didn't make a "liar out of her." I told Hubby the local weather forecasters should not make a habit of saying that phrase, I wanted a foam brick to throw at the TV and tell her that she is a liar EVERY day lately.

I did already get my squash all planted outside this morning, hopefully the robins and slugs won't get these ones. I have all sorts of odd junk laying around and over the plants, it looks like a strange mine field or a slug obstacle course.
 
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It's just another rubus species. I was thinking maybe something in the hawthorn family. I'd still like to get one for my rubus collection. I have two types of raspberry, two types of blackberry, boysenberry, dewberry, wild black raspberry, and wild blackberry.
 

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yes, it somewhat resembles a rasberry as far as the shape of the plant and the fruit itself, but lacks both sweet and tart flavors, it kind of tastes like nothing. In those photos they showed an extremely perfect ripe red one, more often you see them the bright orange color. The one good thing about it is the animals all love it.

Unlike nettles, which is now growing five feet tall around here and makes walking through the forest hazardous. I seem to have two types of nettles too.
 
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I grow garden huckleberries, a relative of tomatoes, and the small purple berries have no sweetness or tartness, but if you add lemon juice and sugar, it tastes a lot like blueberries, and makes wonderful pies or jam.
 

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wow! hey SD did you see this? i think it was from one of the morning shows:

http://news.yahoo.com/video/us-1574...VsYXIEc2xrA2FwdG9wc3Rvcmllcw--#video=25697021

its about how they are using bear dogs to chase blackbears out of the seattle neighborhoods/suburbs! you can get your bear dog and i could get kai and we'd make a million bucks! ha!

i laughed about a couple things - one i loved the guy yelling "GET THAT BEAR!" just b/c i think i've used that before (but not with a bear)

and that the whole time i was thinking.. um... what if that dog doenst want to come back? i think he had some kind of transmitter on him.

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That was totally cool! Thanks for sharing that, I'll have to put that up on my karelian bear dog group site (international). I did not know there were very many people in my area with them. Mine was a stray remember so I don't know how she came to be in the Vancouver area. Mine looks very much like that one in particular except she has blue eyes. I found out from the karelian bear dog group that other people have indeed seen blue eyes like mine has.

I do wonder how those folks get those dogs to come back. You notice they are leashed for a lot of that footage, but the one dog is off lead (when he is tired obviously). We can sometimes count on Bandit not taking off if we know she is exhausted. But it takes a lot to get her exhausted, you would be amazed. I've chased her with a car for over 20 miles. The little turd.

Just last night she attacked my chicken Pretty, but it was totally my fault, I didn't put Pretty away and put Bandit in the pen with her. Luckily she made a big fuss and then played DEAD and it worked. My son heard the big fuss and Bandit was not as interested in being caught with a dead chicken as she was with playing with a lively bird, so she left her alone. I went out thinking I was going to pick up her carcass, and I knew it was Pretty so I was ready to burst into tears. But when I picked up the "body", she was moving and I saw she was pretending to lie still and submissive, tucked under the fence as far as she could get.

I felt soooooooooooo bad for not noticing she was not in the flock when I put the chickens away. Her sister Unpretty felt so bad she flew out of the enclosure to be with her despite the dogs being out! But when I picked up Pretty, she kinda looked shocked but I did not find an injury and I put her back in the enclosure with her sister and they sat quietly together for awhile. I think she was telling her sister about her harrowing adventure. Then they both got up and acted normal. This morning Pretty did not come out of the coop until late and I was getting afraid to go look in there, when she came out and pecked around like normal. Pretty is my little orloff that hatched the chicks for me last year, and who lays an egg for me almost every day despite orloffs being "poor" layers, even through the winter! They are small eggs, but still.....I want to cross them with an EE and see what kind of layers I get from that. So I'm glad she survived the experience and she is the only chicken we have that has always had a name. I know, you aren't supposed to name them, but we did.

I know Bandit was just doing what is natural for her, being predatory. I have to do a better job supervising.
 
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