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When and How to Harvest Boysenberries
06.06.2023 - 20:38 / gardenerspath.com / Laura Ojeda Melchor
When and How to Harvest Boysenberries, a Tart Summertime DelightYou’ve grown your own delicious boysenberry bush. The first plump reddish-purple berries are beginning to ripen on the vine. And then you realize that you’re not really sure exactly when or how to harvest these beauties.
At what point are they actually ready? How do you separate the berries from their thorny canes?
In this guide, I’ll give you all the answers.
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Ready to learn how to harvest your boysenberries (Rubus ursinus × R. idaeus)?
Here’s what I’ll cover:
When to Harvest BoysenberriesThe first thing to know is that boysenberries, the rare hybrid of blackberries, raspberries, loganberries, and dewberries, produce fruit on floricanes – the second-year growth.
They flower in the spring and set fruit that ripens between mid-May and mid-July, depending on your growing zone. Fruit will ripen earlier in hotter zones with more sunshine, and later in colder regions.
The second important thing to realize is that they don’t all ripen at once.
Even a clump of berries on the same lateral cane will often be in different stages of maturation: some greenish, many turning red, and a few the luscious dark purple that indicates they are ripe.
For fresh snacking and the best flavor in a scrumptious boysenberry pie, you’ll want to look for the darkest, wine-colored fruits to pick.
If you’re planning to turn them into jam, you can get away with picking slightly less ripe berries with a reddish-purple color.
The slightly underripe berries will have an excellent tart flavor and a touch of sweetness, which you can improve by adding plenty of sugar in the canning process.
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