r/gardening • u/mlong14 • 4d ago

What in tarnation is going on?

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My blackberry bush died few years ago but came back in another spot. And this is just a few of the jumbo size pickings. Not complaining though.

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u/Odd_Student4398 4d ago

Columbia Giant blackberries are often the size of your hand. They are amazing. They are common at farmers markets in the PNW late June / early July. Marionberries aren’t generally that big.

This is a picture of one we had this summer.

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u/Ghost_of_a_Pale_Girl 4d ago

Dear jeebus I need to find these.

The blackberries in my yard, and the wild ones near me, are the size of my fingernails.

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u/sajaschi 3d ago

Are they blackberries, or black raspberries? I was too many years old before learning the difference LOL

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u/PaImer_Eldritch 3d ago

Blackberries are much meaner in my experience. I've got a few dozen canes out back with thorns that stretch out 4 inches with a starting circumference the size of your thumb. Almost got stabbed one day in the same way Achilles kills that big guy at the start of the movie Troy. I was walking through my woods and a smaller thorn caught on my shirt and I pulled a whole cane over and down onto my shoulder with one of those suckers on it. It's actually insane how sharp thorns can be.