Thanks for your video. My family has grown these for over 100 years and they are used for Pie or Jam. They are harvested after 1st or 2nd frost. There is a process to take out the bitter. Ours are usually canned (water bath) in quart jars. Process is wash carefully - 4 qts berries cover with water, bring to boil, add in 1 T. baking soda boil and stir for 5 minutes. You will see an amazing emeralgd green foam come off the berries leaving a magnificent purple. Drain fully, rinse a minimum of 3 times. Return drained berries to pot, add 2c. water, 6 T lemon juice and 4 1/2 c. sugar. Simmer 30 minutes. Process quart jars (water bath) 30 min. From here we thicken for 2 crust pie, depending on the level of sweet you might add more sugar. We also add crushed pineapple to the pie filling as well. Family originally from England. I would love hints to get a great harvest- my support system have all passed.
My hint is to ignore them! Honestly I didn't really do anything extra with them. They did great in the full sun, and part sun. At the bottom of the hill with more water, and at the top with less. I will be growing more for sure next year. I fertilized periodically with my tomato fertilizer. I am waiting for the rest to harvest as soon as we get a hard frost. But I couldn't wait this summer. I'll be interested to see if I can tell a difference. Thank you so much for watching and your tips. My daughter is hoping for another crisp!
Thank you very much for this information, absolutely overwhelming to find this piece of information, I knew the process needed soda etc but didn't know the measurements, always had these growing up and my Mom always cooked them this way and this is the closest I've found to what I remember watching my mom cooking them
This is my second year to grow and I think it's wonderful! I have tried growing blueberries many times and have one scraggly plant 😬. My son came up with one of my favorite jokes ever. "Hmmm, it tastes like the unmarried older sister of the blueberry "😄
I grew two plants of garden huckleberry this year. I made tarts without the science experiment. I thought they tasted somewhere between a blueberry and a mincemeat tart. I ate one raw, it tasted somewhere between a tomato and rhubarb. I lived, it doesn't kill you, it just doesn't taste sweet when raw. I will grow them again!
I Grew Those berries and Wonder berries, I Was not impressed with many berries, The Tomato horn worm 🐛 love them.. Thanks for sharing your Experience Have a Beautiful Evening 🌸
We have high mountain huckleberry here in the pacific northwest and we cook them, ferment them, and eat Rae. No worries. You must have a different verity if it says don't eat raw.
It Has to be something different. Wild mountain huckleberries are amazing raw or in any form. Not bitter at all. are only found in the mountains from Montana to the west coast along the northern border. People have tried to grow them and find it impossible. That’s why they are so dang expensive. I came here, hoping to find a way to grow them. But it doesn’t sound like it’s the same thing. Unfortunately.
Garden and mountain huckleberry are completely different! I live in northern Montana. Mountain huckleberry is amazing and grows wild. Most folks won’t tell you where they harvest from. You have to hike and find on your own patch. lol. I bought the garden variety before researching. :/ I’m planting them in garden regardless for the abundance of berries I’ve read that this variety can produce. Hopefully they will grow as well as raspberries do here. We must invest in our food resources with what is coming. 👍
Our family enjoyed the most delicious huckleberry soda in Grand Teton National Park 15 years ago and I still have one of the bottles for keepsake. Amazing flavor but the perennial huckleberry bush I've not been able to grow successfully in Utah. It's labeled as Berried Treasure Box. Good to know there's an annual huckleberry plant. Thank you.
I got the same brand of seeds last year this year I planted them. I accidentally got one in the middle of my cabbage bed, i got a few in a bed with seedless grape, a few on their own in a grow bag and a few in a raised bed with mixed micro greens. All are doing so well and I noticed the berries starting to form. Im really excited to try them once they are ready.
G'day Brampton. This is really good Rachelle. I mean really, really good! Very well done. I know little about these and this really helped me get a good understanding about them. All the best. Daz.
I love your reviews on the plants you’ve planted this year! I don’t think I’ve ever had a huckleberry before! They seemed to be an easy plant to grow. I wonder if I could grow them lol. That pie looks like a blueberry filling! That’s crazy how the berry’s taste transformed so much from raw to cooked! That’s cool what baking soda does to the huckleberries! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks so much! keep mind it's not actually a huckleberry, it's a totally different family, it just looks like them. But it doesn't' taste like them either, very confusing. This is the Garden Huckleberry. Real huckleberries are shrubs.
Wonderful video! Last year, I tried a different variety of Solanum nigrum that a friend was growing called Wonderberries. I saved lots of seeds and will be growing those this year in my own garden. They variety was developed by famous plant breeder Luther Burbank in the late 1800s/ early 1900s. Since the species is the same and Wonderberry is an improved variety, I thought they would be similar to most "garden huckleberry" types- but judging from your video, the berries on yours look way larger than what I harvested last year! I did enjoy eating them raw off the bush- they were lightly sweet with a combined subtle berry flavor and subtle savory tomato-y flavor too and thin skin . Overall they were quite mild, but very enjoyable to eat off the bush every day. I made a batch of jam with the berries, some mint and some hot/smoky Jamaican jerk peppers that was absolutely delicious! No prep work with the baking soda, and no detectable bitterness even when fresh. I do think that your berries might be better for pie though, as it looks like they're much larger and have a more robust skin that would retain some texture when cooked- the wonderberries' thin skin fell apart when cooked and turned into nice smooth jammy consistency. I'm curious how different your huckleberries taste compared to my wonderberries. Would you like to trade seeds so we can both compare them?
@@BramptonGardener I was a bit confused at how different your fruit looked so different than mine. It turns out they're two separate species- garden huckleberries are Solanum melanocerasum, while the wonderberries Luther Burbank developed were hybrids- possibly of S. villosum and S. guineense, although they're nearly identical to S. nigrum. When I tasted the wonderberries last summer, there were many wild S. nigrum plants growing a few hundred feet away from the garden, and I had the chance to taste the two berries side-by-side. While there were some subtle differences, the flavor and appearance of the berries was very similar. The wonderberries had slightly more sweetness and mild fruity notes, less savory tomato-y flavor, thinner skin, and were overall more consistent in their flavor, but if you mixed them together in a bowl it would be hard to tell them apart. I did enjoy eating the wonderberries more than the wild ones though, and they were more productive too. I wonder if wonderberries could by hybridized with garden huckleberries to get a larger berry that's suitable for fresh eating? I'll send you an e-mail about the seed swap :)
I am so glad that you made this video. I have been gardening in a foresty type of area across the street from where I live. I planted roma tomatoes and suddenly found this (weed) plant growing. I'm into seeing what plants are and have found that most weeds are edible and medicinal. Now I realize that a weed is nothing more than a volunteer plant in the wrong place! I'm writing because the plant I discovered has black shiny berries in clusters with tiny white flowers. I'm hoping you can tell me if your plant berries started shiny and became more of a matte appearance? I ask because, while I'm sure that what I have is not the poisonous nightshade, (because these do grow in clusters and have a small white flower with yellow center), I am wanting to be a 100% sure it is the huckleberry before I pick and attempt to cook. I will be looking through your channel to see how else you prepared these. Again, I so appreciated your video. I love being able to take what others think of as weeds and properly using them. I would have pulled all these wonderful weeds out of my tomato containers and missed the opportunity to try something new!
You don’t use your crab apples?! We make the best apple butter from our hott mess wild crab apple tree :D PS love the feedback on huckleberries, we are excited to try them this year
I was looking to buy some huckleberry sprouted plants this year. I also read that bugs will eat the huckleberry over the peppers, tomato's, potato's. That was my initial reason for growing. I've got seeds going- a little later than I wanted
@@BramptonGardener grapes, moringa, elderberry and strawberries are the one plant I want to continue to grow forever. I had a carrot 🥕 harvest yesterday so I am super thrilled about that. Thanks for your reply 👍🏾👊🏾
Hey this was awesome!!! I don’t know if huckleberries will grow up here but I’ll be checking that out! Oh and you could make beautiful yarn or some tie die with that huckleberry juice I’ll bet!!!! 😊👍
The only problem I had was mine got attached by horn worms! I had not sprayed them with BT like the rest of my plants but they pulled through and I have hundreds of berries. So just keep in mind horn worms will eat them.
Your taste buds must be different than mine. I bought the same kind from Baker Creek. I hated them, they have a weird taste very unpleasant even when cooked. I gave some away to my family and friends and never heard anything back, lol they didn't ask for more so I figured they didn't like them either. I grew them two summers ago, and last summer they popped up everywhere, it's to bad they taste so bad because I love that come back year after year.
Oh no! It is weird how people have different likes and dislikes. Did you add a bit of the baking soda to take away the bitterness??? and then add in lemon and sugar??? We really liked it, tasted like blueberry/blackberry to me. I find it's also a love it or hate it with the Ground Cherries.
Husband had to pull nightshade, jemsen, & one other plant out of fields before moving cattle on that land. (Every yr). Poisonous to cattle. Just learned something
ohhh good luck. I hope you like them, we love them. But some people don't. maybe they didn't add the baking soda and it was too bitter??? I don't know.
@@PurePondering ohhh perfect. The crisp was delicious. And so is the jam. Baker creek had recipes in their whole seed catalog last year. Or check out the link i posted he has great recipes too. Good luck, I hope you love it as much as I do. You can also make a sauce ro serve with pork, or a syrup to put on pancakes or mix with sparkling water to make flavored soda. I have another cup I harvested off the neighbors side, that I just popped in a zip lock in the freezer until I'm ready to use them.
I grew these about twenty years ago. I found them to be bitter, even fully ripe, cooked, soaked in sugar, and served over ice cream. Not horribly bitter, but enough to be unappealing. I know people vary (based on genetics) in their response to bitter flavors. Perhaps I'm just more sensitive than some. I am planning on getting some in the ground for a late harvest this year and will likely experiment with different cooking techniques and maybe some wine making to see if I can figure out something appetizing to do with them. I would love to have another option for growing fruit in the garden, and these are fairly carefree (and compared to real blueberries, far less bothered by birds!)
oh no that's too bed. did you try the baking soda?? that part is supposed to help with the bitterness. I didn't find it bitter, but yes everyone is different. I hope you like them this year.
@@BramptonGardener No, I hadn't heard of the baking soda thing back then. That's one reason for giving them another try. I might experiment to see if cooking lime will serve the same purpose in addition to trying the baking soda.
ohhh that is exciting. These I'm growing Garden Huckleberries are not a True Huckleberry, they are in the nightshade family and are an annual. So I have NO IDEA unfortunately on the care aspects of the true perennial huckleberry shrubs I'm sorry. I know this guy has a lot of fruit bushes he might be able to help you. ua-cam.com/channels/oTB3jNpefnsegwJ6Q4YZxQ.html
Oh no! Hahaha ya sometimes that happens to ines I've watched and commented before, they unjust unlisted ya sometimes. Thanks so much for stopping by, and congratulations.
I think from reading the comments that these must be different then the wild ones we pick in the mountains They have never been bitter to me. I made myself sick as a child because I ate more than I put in the bucket. They don't grow in large clusters like that either, I may have to try planting some. Do they winter kill where you live.?
You're probably thinking if real Huckleberries. These are in the nightshade family. And just named garden Huckleberry because they look like a real Huckleberry. They're an annual here just like peppers.
Never tasted huckle berries, and i moved in Brampton 6 years ago and bought 2 blueberry plants which were full of flowers, but no fruits I received ever since, I would rather get huckleberry instead. Question, is it a perennial?
Ohhh sorry to hear about your blueberries. They need acidic soil and might need certain amendments. Garden Huckleberries are an annual. They're in the nightshade family like eggplant and peppers.
@@BramptonGardener well there are alot of negative revieves but I found your video after already ordering these seeds..have not grown them yet or gotten them and I have to grow in container like grow bags and I do not do alot of sugar as have some issues but thinking heard of people putting them in muffins and pancakes like you would with blueberries and blueberries can get pricey and on farms on those upick places so thought would be good to have on hand if easy to grow to use sort of like it in recipes
I have 2 questions 1. Are they invasive? And 2 by Brampton do you mean Brampton ontairo? Just wondering that because I live in ontairo a well so I want to know if they will grow up here
1. They do Self-Seed. But are pretty easy to pull out, so I wouldn't say invasive. 2. YES I'm in Brampton Ontario, and they grow well here. They're in the same family as tomatoes, peppers and eggplant.
Thanks for sharing this info! I bought the same seeds and started them indoors a few weeks ago. They’re tiny! Do you get a harvest from them the first year or do you have to wait?
@@danikagoecke6751 just make sure to follow the cooking instructions. There is a lovely reciprocated below by a viewer. The baking soda trick helps with the flavor, and it's so cool to watch the color change.
@@BramptonGardener Ok. Got it 👍 Do you have problems with birds eating the berries? Birds tear my blueberries and strawberries to shreds. I have to put netting over my plants. Lol
Watching this now because Baker Creek is dangerous for trying to grow new things. 90% of my garden is things i have not grown or tasted. Huckleberries being one. 95% of my garden is Baker Creek.
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Thanks for your video. My family has grown these for over 100 years and they are used for Pie or Jam. They are harvested after 1st or 2nd frost. There is a process to take out the bitter. Ours are usually canned (water bath) in quart jars. Process is wash carefully - 4 qts berries cover with water, bring to boil, add in 1 T. baking soda boil and stir for 5 minutes. You will see an amazing emeralgd green foam come off the berries leaving a magnificent purple. Drain fully, rinse a minimum of 3 times. Return drained berries to pot, add 2c. water, 6 T lemon juice and 4 1/2 c. sugar. Simmer 30 minutes. Process quart jars (water bath) 30 min. From here we thicken for 2 crust pie, depending on the level of sweet you might add more sugar. We also add crushed pineapple to the pie filling as well. Family originally from England. I would love hints to get a great harvest- my support system have all passed.
My hint is to ignore them! Honestly I didn't really do anything extra with them. They did great in the full sun, and part sun. At the bottom of the hill with more water, and at the top with less. I will be growing more for sure next year. I fertilized periodically with my tomato fertilizer.
I am waiting for the rest to harvest as soon as we get a hard frost. But I couldn't wait this summer. I'll be interested to see if I can tell a difference.
Thank you so much for watching and your tips. My daughter is hoping for another crisp!
thank you for sharing 😁 how many berries per 2 cups of water in your recipe?
Thank you very much for this information, absolutely overwhelming to find this piece of information, I knew the process needed soda etc but didn't know the measurements, always had these growing up and my Mom always cooked them this way and this is the closest I've found to what I remember watching my mom cooking them
Thanks again,❤️
Oh I'm so glad, I hope you enjoy it.
We have wild huckleberries all above 4000 feet absolutely delicious
ohhh that's amazing!!!!
This is my second year to grow and I think it's wonderful! I have tried growing blueberries many times and have one scraggly plant 😬. My son came up with one of my favorite jokes ever. "Hmmm, it tastes like the unmarried older sister of the blueberry "😄
Bahaha that's perfect 🥰. I love it!!!!
I grew two plants of garden huckleberry this year. I made tarts without the science experiment. I thought they tasted somewhere between a blueberry and a mincemeat tart. I ate one raw, it tasted somewhere between a tomato and rhubarb. I lived, it doesn't kill you, it just doesn't taste sweet when raw. I will grow them again!
Oh yum
Huckleberry jam and milkshakes are delicious😋
Oh yum
Thank you very good information
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it.
I'm growing them as a trap crop. Thanks for your wisdom and education. 🙏💛
Oh thank you, and enjoy.
I Grew Those berries and Wonder berries, I Was not impressed with many berries, The Tomato horn worm 🐛 love them.. Thanks for sharing your Experience Have a Beautiful Evening 🌸
KNOCK ON WOOD I don't have those beasts here so I'm safe. I'm sorry it didn't work out for you.
First time I've seen huckleberries! I hope I can taste it someday
You can order the seeds from Baker Creek Seeds
We have high mountain huckleberry here in the pacific northwest and we cook them, ferment them, and eat Rae. No worries. You must have a different verity if it says don't eat raw.
maybe. It's in the nightshade family so not sure.
It Has to be something different. Wild mountain huckleberries are amazing raw or in any form. Not bitter at all. are only found in the mountains from Montana to the west coast along the northern border. People have tried to grow them and find it impossible. That’s why they are so dang expensive. I came here, hoping to find a way to grow them. But it doesn’t sound like it’s the same thing. Unfortunately.
too bad. These are still pretty good though. @@Schellrock85
Garden and mountain huckleberry are completely different! I live in northern Montana. Mountain huckleberry is amazing and grows wild. Most folks won’t tell you where they harvest from. You have to hike and find on your own patch. lol. I bought the garden variety before researching. :/ I’m planting them in garden regardless for the abundance of berries I’ve read that this variety can produce. Hopefully they will grow as well as raspberries do here. We must invest in our food resources with what is coming. 👍
That color in the dish!!Oh my gosh!
It's gorgeous. I love it.
Can't believe I missed the Premier even while setting the reminder smh. Watching now while I drop some seeds!!
Hope you enjoyed it! I hate when that happens!!!
Our family enjoyed the most delicious huckleberry soda in Grand Teton National Park 15 years ago and I still have one of the bottles for keepsake. Amazing flavor but the perennial huckleberry bush I've not been able to grow successfully in Utah. It's labeled as Berried Treasure Box. Good to know there's an annual huckleberry plant. Thank you.
It's not really related at all. just looks similar but still delicious!!! I hope you find something that works.
Fantastic! Thank u! I just planted some seeds indoors for the first time today 2-21-2023.
Oh exciting good luck.
I have a jam video too.
😳 Scary interesting berries 🤩 Thanks for sharing!
so versatile and amazing color!!!!
I got the same brand of seeds last year this year I planted them. I accidentally got one in the middle of my cabbage bed, i got a few in a bed with seedless grape, a few on their own in a grow bag and a few in a raised bed with mixed micro greens. All are doing so well and I noticed the berries starting to form. Im really excited to try them once they are ready.
Oh yay that's exciting. I hope you like them.
Nicely done!! The dessert looks yummy!! such lovely plates too! Wow, great water color changes while starting the jam recipe!!
Great water color changes while starting the Huckleberry jam too!
oh thank you!!! it was tasty. I love my dishes :d thanks
I have seeds for this but didn’t grow them. Will try next season 😊
Oh for sure. They're yum.
Very cool Rachelle! Gonna add this one to next yrs list. Your music is 🔥too
awww thanks, it's nice to know the hours I spent slagging through UA-cam music paid off. hahaha
Hi! Thanks for sharing. I have rang the bell to support your channel for a long time. Have a nice day.
ohh thank you so much I really appreciate it.
Looks and sounds like it's worth a try!
I really enjoy them.
G'day Brampton.
This is really good Rachelle. I mean really, really good! Very well done.
I know little about these and this really helped me get a good understanding about them.
All the best.
Daz.
Oh thank you so much. I was pleasantly surprised by these.
Thank you! Going to try the garden huckleberry!!
Good luck, hope you love them.
I love your reviews on the plants you’ve planted this year! I don’t think I’ve ever had a huckleberry before! They seemed to be an easy plant to grow. I wonder if I could grow them lol. That pie looks like a blueberry filling! That’s crazy how the berry’s taste transformed so much from raw to cooked! That’s cool what baking soda does to the huckleberries! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks so much! keep mind it's not actually a huckleberry, it's a totally different family, it just looks like them. But it doesn't' taste like them either, very confusing. This is the Garden Huckleberry. Real huckleberries are shrubs.
Yum, my favorite desserts are cobbler & pies. Not much of a cake person myself.
I prefer cobblers and crisps myself.
Wow I do t know anything about huckleberries but I do know that dessert looked amazing! Thanks for sharing Rachelle! Great job as always!
You should try some next year
I live in Idaho and they grow wild. Eat a cheesecake with huckleberries and you’ll never want anything else
@@jimsteinway695 great to know thank you! We are in SD so I should see about getting some to grow here
@@YogiHollowFarm we have huckleberry ice cream another ‘to die for ‘ treat! I’ve seen them for $100 a qt so if you can grow them do so!
@@jimsteinway695 awesome thanks!
Wonderful video! Last year, I tried a different variety of Solanum nigrum that a friend was growing called Wonderberries. I saved lots of seeds and will be growing those this year in my own garden. They variety was developed by famous plant breeder Luther Burbank in the late 1800s/ early 1900s. Since the species is the same and Wonderberry is an improved variety, I thought they would be similar to most "garden huckleberry" types- but judging from your video, the berries on yours look way larger than what I harvested last year! I did enjoy eating them raw off the bush- they were lightly sweet with a combined subtle berry flavor and subtle savory tomato-y flavor too and thin skin . Overall they were quite mild, but very enjoyable to eat off the bush every day. I made a batch of jam with the berries, some mint and some hot/smoky Jamaican jerk peppers that was absolutely delicious! No prep work with the baking soda, and no detectable bitterness even when fresh. I do think that your berries might be better for pie though, as it looks like they're much larger and have a more robust skin that would retain some texture when cooked- the wonderberries' thin skin fell apart when cooked and turned into nice smooth jammy consistency. I'm curious how different your huckleberries taste compared to my wonderberries. Would you like to trade seeds so we can both compare them?
Oh interesting. Yes I would be happy to try a trade. Ya mine were not good for just snacking in the garden hahahha.
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@@BramptonGardener I was a bit confused at how different your fruit looked so different than mine. It turns out they're two separate species- garden huckleberries are Solanum melanocerasum, while the wonderberries Luther Burbank developed were hybrids- possibly of S. villosum and S. guineense, although they're nearly identical to S. nigrum. When I tasted the wonderberries last summer, there were many wild S. nigrum plants growing a few hundred feet away from the garden, and I had the chance to taste the two berries side-by-side. While there were some subtle differences, the flavor and appearance of the berries was very similar. The wonderberries had slightly more sweetness and mild fruity notes, less savory tomato-y flavor, thinner skin, and were overall more consistent in their flavor, but if you mixed them together in a bowl it would be hard to tell them apart. I did enjoy eating the wonderberries more than the wild ones though, and they were more productive too. I wonder if wonderberries could by hybridized with garden huckleberries to get a larger berry that's suitable for fresh eating? I'll send you an e-mail about the seed swap :)
@@passionatefruit164 oh that is so cool. Would be interesting to see if you could cross them.
Nice sharing 👍
Thank you.
I am so glad that you made this video. I have been gardening in a foresty type of area across the street from where I live. I planted roma tomatoes and suddenly found this (weed) plant growing. I'm into seeing what plants are and have found that most weeds are edible and medicinal. Now I realize that a weed is nothing more than a volunteer plant in the wrong place! I'm writing because the plant I discovered has black shiny berries in clusters with tiny white flowers. I'm hoping you can tell me if your plant berries started shiny and became more of a matte appearance? I ask because, while I'm sure that what I have is not the poisonous nightshade, (because these do grow in clusters and have a small white flower with yellow center), I am wanting to be a 100% sure it is the huckleberry before I pick and attempt to cook. I will be looking through your channel to see how else you prepared these. Again, I so appreciated your video. I love being able to take what others think of as weeds and properly using them. I would have pulled all these wonderful weeds out of my tomato containers and missed the opportunity to try something new!
Oh exciting to find. I've made crisp and jam with mine.
That looked amazing 🤩 you said it right after I thought it 👍🏼
Hahaha. Thanks for watching
Going to check them out
They're great
These look so good!
They're beautiful!!!! thank you
I started some from seed. Hoping to get them planted in a couple months
oh exciting, I hope you love them. I look forward to makeing more jam this summer
I've never heard of it. Thanks for sharing 👍
Thanks for watching.
Looks delicious
It really is. Thanks for stopping by.
I am hoping to grow some next year!
Oh good, they're fun.
You don’t use your crab apples?! We make the best apple butter from our hott mess wild crab apple tree :D PS love the feedback on huckleberries, we are excited to try them this year
Mine are the super tiny ones onemental ones. The lady across the road has the larger edible ones and I make jam with those.
Your verity of crabapple tree can act as a pollinator for any other verity of apple
Wow,lovely,thank you for sharing, I have 1 plant too,and I think I dare to try it😊
ohhh let me know what you think. make sure to heat it up with some sugar!!! it's not great on it's own.
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Very good video...🌷🌷🌷🌷
Thank you.
Nice thanks for sharing
Thank you too
Thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching!
I was looking to buy some huckleberry sprouted plants this year. I also read that bugs will eat the huckleberry over the peppers, tomato's, potato's. That was my initial reason for growing. I've got seeds going- a little later than I wanted
I've NEVER seen them for sale as starts. they do seem to attract some bugs, but didn't really
seem to affect the fruit.
Looks delicious!
Thank you so much
Blue kool aid, lol. My favorite plant to grow was either grape vines or carrots
ohhh grape vines or carrots!!! great answer. I would lean towards the grapes myself I think, I love them. Thanks for watching.
@@BramptonGardener grapes, moringa, elderberry and strawberries are the one plant I want to continue to grow forever. I had a carrot 🥕 harvest yesterday so I am super thrilled about that.
Thanks for your reply 👍🏾👊🏾
New add here ! Yay !
Ohhh yay, thanks so much.
I just planted some seeds. Only came with a pinch worth so hopefully they sprout🤞
Good luck.
Hey this was awesome!!! I don’t know if huckleberries will grow up here but I’ll be checking that out! Oh and you could make beautiful yarn or some tie die with that huckleberry juice I’ll bet!!!! 😊👍
YES they'd make a fabulous dye!!!! Well they're not a true huckleberry they're a nightshade like peppers and tomatoes so for sure you can grow them.
@@BramptonGardener oh my gosh AWESOME!!! Will be trying that next year!!! 😊👍
@@MtnGrandma whoohooo you should join my FB seed swap group :D facebook.com/groups/504051737366586
@@BramptonGardener I don’t do Facebook this and Pinterest are really my only social media’s. But thank you anyways! 😊❤️
@@MtnGrandma oh ok no worries :D
The only problem I had was mine got attached by horn worms! I had not sprayed them with BT like the rest of my plants but they pulled through and I have hundreds of berries. So just keep in mind horn worms will eat them.
Ohhh boooo.
Your taste buds must be different than mine. I bought the same kind from Baker Creek. I hated them, they have a weird taste very unpleasant even when cooked. I gave some away to my family and friends and never heard anything back, lol they didn't ask for more so I figured they didn't like them either. I grew them two summers ago, and last summer they popped up everywhere, it's to bad they taste so bad because I love that come back year after year.
Oh no! It is weird how people have different likes and dislikes. Did you add a bit of the baking soda to take away the bitterness??? and then add in lemon and sugar??? We really liked it, tasted like blueberry/blackberry to me.
I find it's also a love it or hate it with the Ground Cherries.
Husband had to pull nightshade, jemsen, & one other plant out of fields before moving cattle on that land. (Every yr). Poisonous to cattle.
Just learned something
Ahhh yes if they're eating it before it's ripe then that would be a problem.
Interesting I've been researching them
They're fun to grow.
I have the seeds. Baked its really good, I have to try these soon.
ohhh good luck. I hope you like them, we love them. But some people don't. maybe they didn't add the baking soda and it was too bitter??? I don't know.
Hello Rachel
Hello and welcome.
Great video! I just received those same seeds. Looking forward to growing them this year 🤠
My favorite plant in 2021 was 🍆 They did very well
Ohh nice, good luck. I've never grown eggplant but I want to.
@@BramptonGardener You should! Eggplant parm is the yummiest!
@@horsegal1971 ohh it is. And my neighbor gave her recipe for eggplant curry, divine.
@@BramptonGardener Nice!
OK, I need to get started picking our huckleberries and working them up. I've been holding off because I wasn't quite sure what to do with them.
keep in mind these are not the huckleberry bush. Those are different plant altogether.
@@BramptonGardener I got my seeds from the same company you did. :-)
@@PurePondering ohhh perfect. The crisp was delicious. And so is the jam. Baker creek had recipes in their whole seed catalog last year. Or check out the link i posted he has great recipes too. Good luck, I hope you love it as much as I do.
You can also make a sauce ro serve with pork, or a syrup to put on pancakes or mix with sparkling water to make flavored soda. I have another cup I harvested off the neighbors side, that I just popped in a zip lock in the freezer until I'm ready to use them.
I’m really wanting to try
Theyre lovely
I just started some seeds a month ago and they are taking off.
Ohh that's awesome!
I grew these about twenty years ago. I found them to be bitter, even fully ripe, cooked, soaked in sugar, and served over ice cream. Not horribly bitter, but enough to be unappealing. I know people vary (based on genetics) in their response to bitter flavors. Perhaps I'm just more sensitive than some. I am planning on getting some in the ground for a late harvest this year and will likely experiment with different cooking techniques and maybe some wine making to see if I can figure out something appetizing to do with them. I would love to have another option for growing fruit in the garden, and these are fairly carefree (and compared to real blueberries, far less bothered by birds!)
oh no that's too bed. did you try the baking soda?? that part is supposed to help with the bitterness. I didn't find it bitter, but yes everyone is different. I hope you like them this year.
@@BramptonGardener No, I hadn't heard of the baking soda thing back then. That's one reason for giving them another try. I might experiment to see if cooking lime will serve the same purpose in addition to trying the baking soda.
@@bobbun9630 oh that sounds like a fun experiment.
Hi I love watching your vedio... nice to be friends here
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I just bought some huckleberry plants and want to grow them here in Idaho. What kind of soil? Huckleberry is my favorite fruit!!!
ohhh that is exciting. These I'm growing Garden Huckleberries are not a True Huckleberry, they are in the nightshade family and are an annual. So I have NO IDEA unfortunately on the care aspects of the true perennial huckleberry shrubs I'm sorry.
I know this guy has a lot of fruit bushes he might be able to help you. ua-cam.com/channels/oTB3jNpefnsegwJ6Q4YZxQ.html
Thanks for share
You bet!
I’ll have to try that next year
Worth a shot. super fun to watch grow.
@@BramptonGardener Can you repeat in the spring? I know I’ll forget and I really want to try this! 😊
@@weewhorobin8202 if you hit the notification bell you'll see when I start my seeds!!!!!
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I think they have a few different varieties some people say ynsome varieties are sweet and tangy
These are pretty tangy on their own like an unripe tomato. But add some sugar and they transform.
I totally need to try these (on purpose) 🤣 🦅
I think my favorite thing I grew this year was the Richmond Green Apple Cucumber 🤔
Ohhh nice it was cute. I am in love with your baby gords haha
@@BramptonGardener You’re right, those gourds are freaking adorable 🤔
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@@NicoleSmithGardening what are ýou gonna do with them?
@@BramptonGardenerl am going to make birdhouses with them; painted birdhouses. And hang them all n the trees 😃😃😃
@@NicoleSmithGardening ohhh awesome.
Free seeds!!
lots of seeds and seedlings
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I think from reading the comments that these must be different then the wild ones we pick in the mountains They have never been bitter to me. I made myself sick as a child because I ate more than I put in the bucket. They don't grow in large clusters like that either, I may have to try planting some. Do they winter kill where you live.?
You're probably thinking if real Huckleberries. These are in the nightshade family. And just named garden Huckleberry because they look like a real Huckleberry.
They're an annual here just like peppers.
@@BramptonGardener Ok, that makes sense now Thanx
Never tasted huckle berries, and i moved in Brampton 6 years ago and bought 2 blueberry plants which were full of flowers, but no fruits I received ever since, I would rather get huckleberry instead. Question, is it a perennial?
Ohhh sorry to hear about your blueberries. They need acidic soil and might need certain amendments.
Garden Huckleberries are an annual. They're in the nightshade family like eggplant and peppers.
wonder if you can freeze them and make the pie close to hollidays/..Patricia
I have some in the freezer! I hope it's still good.
@@BramptonGardener well there are alot of negative revieves but I found your video after already ordering these seeds..have not grown them yet or gotten them and I have to grow in container like grow bags and I do not do alot of sugar as have some issues but thinking heard of people putting them in muffins and pancakes like you would with blueberries and blueberries can get pricey and on farms on those upick places so thought would be good to have on hand if easy to grow to use sort of like it in recipes
I have 2 questions 1. Are they invasive? And 2 by Brampton do you mean Brampton ontairo? Just wondering that because I live in ontairo a well so I want to know if they will grow up here
1. They do Self-Seed. But are pretty easy to pull out, so I wouldn't say invasive.
2. YES I'm in Brampton Ontario, and they grow well here. They're in the same family as tomatoes, peppers and eggplant.
Thanks for sharing this info! I bought the same seeds and started them indoors a few weeks ago. They’re tiny! Do you get a harvest from them the first year or do you have to wait?
First season. For me in zone 5 they're annuals like peppers and tomatoes. These are not actual Huckleberry plants which are perrinial shrubs.
@@BramptonGardener Thank you!!! I started about 10 of them. Can’t wait to see how we like them. 🤗
@@danikagoecke6751 just make sure to follow the cooking instructions. There is a lovely reciprocated below by a viewer. The baking soda trick helps with the flavor, and it's so cool to watch the color change.
@@BramptonGardener Ok. Got it 👍 Do you have problems with birds eating the berries? Birds tear my blueberries and strawberries to shreds. I have to put netting over my plants. Lol
@@danikagoecke6751 no I didn't have issues with birds.
Have you tasted one fresh yet
Yes, they're not great plain.
Great video! And we'd love some seeds if you still have some! 🫐
So nice of you
Do birds not eat the berries? Or deer?
Haven't had an issue, they're not sweet so maybe that's why the birds leave them alone? And I'm in the city with a concrete wall no deer.
I have a few that are close to ready but not enough to use. Can I freeze them until I have enough then cook them all together?
Yes you can. They freeze just fine. Mine are just starting to bloom so exciting.
Check out my jam video I'd you haven't it's so easy and delicious.
@@BramptonGardener thank you!
I have the same from bakers, did you put in the shade?
No, they need full sun!! Good luck.
I'm in scorching TX though. I'll try one in sun and one in shade. I gave in containers so I can get them out of the sun
Thank you
ohhhh Texas and Containers will make a difference. I'm in Canada. treat them like you would tomatoes
Also known as Chichiquelite.
Ir is not an actual blueberry, tho it is a berry that is blue. Evidently from Africa.
oh cool. Yes it's in the nightshade family. Such a cool plant.
Hi how it taste raw
Oh really, I wasn't fan ahaha
Is it really that good?
I wouldn't lie to you.
Watching this now because Baker Creek is dangerous for trying to grow new things. 90% of my garden is things i have not grown or tasted. Huckleberries being one. 95% of my garden is Baker Creek.
Hahahah they're super dangerous! Hahahahaha thanks for stopping by.
Thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching.