my god!!! Those are some really big blackberries or you have very small hands!!  in either case they look delicious!

My memories of childhood on the farm involved blueberries - smallbush - and raspberries and blackberries of the wild variety so, while they weren't large, they tasted great!  Also the cherry tree that my other grandfather cut down ... gram made a pie and everyone wanted to know if there wasn't some way to 'put it back together'

Went to visit my grandfather in Oregon after I got out of service and the blackberries on his place were huge but they were more tart than sweet ... oh, well, that was gramps as well.

I see you are putting on a little weight there but it's not so much that it looks bad.  Over half way there so you've got it made.  (( unmarried male here ... right?!?! ))

Some videos of the pups and the stroller are in order, but you've mushed, no?  that shouldn't be too much of an adjustment.

ETA: Gran'pa cut down the cherry tree when he was mowing the grass around the house with a hay mower. He was my grandmothers second husband so 'the other grandfather'

My husband pulled a granddad the other day and mowed down my old fashioned gooseberry bush. it grows by where the path I walk the dogs is and the path goes around it. For some reason it didn't dawn on him why the path made a big swoop in it and he rammed the mower right over the top of my gooseberry bush. I don't have much hope it will sprout back. If he had done it in the spring then maybe but this late in the fall I have a feeling it's toast.

I have two types of blackberries. I have thornless that get good sized but they are hit or miss on taste that do their thing in the spring. Then I have this set of extremely thorny blackberries that bear fruit in spring and fall. The spring crop doesn't usually amount to much but it will consistently wow in size and taste in the fall crop. Even when we had the horrible drought last year that dried up ever other variety of blackberry.

I have a large contingency of fruit. Blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, black currants, boysenberries, elderberries, and I HAD a gooseberry. Orchard has cherries, peaches, apples, and pears. I have figs and lemon trees in pots I bring inside during the winter. I also harvest off our american persimmons. I have a row of hazelnut bushes, as well as a couple walnuts in production and pecans going in next spring. I plan to replant my grape vines sometime. Deer put a lot of pressure on them at the old location so they couldn't get good size to produce so going to reestablish in new spot and hope for better. Some of this is still working on getting to production age. None of it was in when we moved to this house 6 years ago so everything is pretty young. Doesn't undo my aggravation every time my husband mentions moving like it's no big deal to start it all over again.

Do not know where my reply went! Jenn - you look fabulous! I'm betting that 10 pound gain will soon balloon - last trimester, if i remember correctly, starts to become a pound a week!
Those blackberries look wonderful. We had some but a woodchuck was eating them before they got really sweet. I think he's now living in my shed, will know soon, when i put the pool to bed for the winter, the shed gets totally rearranged for storage.

We have thimbleberries they are kind of like a black raspberry i guess. This is the first year ive been able to eat any of the wax currants, the birds get them before they are ripe. And the chokeberries are insanely healthy but remind me of tasteless pomegranate juice with how dry they are. Mostly nothing grows here without help.

What exactly does a gooseberry taste like. We have something called a service berry thats similar.

Anyone have any uses for rosehip berries? Ive been trying to figure out what to do with the over abundance of them.

Any ideas why my blackberry wont set fruit? It also never really gets very big. Ive tried moving it to different spots i fertilize it monthly i water it when its the dry season. Its like close to 7 years old now and ive gotten 1 berry off it. Its one of 4 plants i still have going but i never figured out why it went wrong. Also its supposed to be a thornless variety and somehow its looking more and more like a thimble berry bush being scraggly and small and covered in tiny fine thorns. I bought it as a root thing at tractor supply.

Emily, never had it, never made it but there's Those Hips jam and rose hips tea. Supposedly good source of vitamin c

What is your pruning situation on the blackberry? Does it bloom? Most cultivars grow a year and then fruit the following year so each time you've moved it you've reset a 2 year clock. Even if it doesn't set fruit though on a cane if that cane bloomed it's pretty much done and should be cut back so a new one can replace it.

@Lostmaniac if my grandmother were still around she could offer a lot of suggests re the rose hips. She had some wild roses on the farm with a bountiful production and she'd suck on one for hours ... beyond that little bit "I know nothing."

Emily - i just looked online, there are tons and tons of recipes for those hip jam and syrups. But a warning not to eat them raw.

Rose hips are ok to eat raw, they just dont have alot of flavor. Its the hairs you have to avoid. I considered attempting a wax currant/chokeberry wine and maybe infuse the rose hips but the wax currants are gone.

As for the blackberry bush i cut it back and cover it every winter. It said it was ok for zone 4 but i wonder if the number of days in the growing season is the problem. Also it wants to grow into like vines instead of a bush. Ill get a pic of it in the am.

I have also tried more sun, less sun, i fertilize it about every 3 months and change most of the soil yearly and its currently in happy frog but the year before i mixed happy frog and ocean forest.