We live here on the central coast of California and two years ago these just randomly started growing in our backyard and didn’t know what they were. I do some gardening and we thought at first it was an eggplant or some kind of tomato and then looked it up and it ended up being a huckleberry, all the sudden they started growing back after not growing back for about a year they come out from under our house, I finally just put a tomato cage around it! They are hairy and have leaves like a tomato 🍅 and they don’t produce many berries that’s why I’m on here researching them so I can actually use them! 😆💪👏🌱 thanks for the video!
Garden huckleberries priduce a large amount of berries even on barely surviving plants. Belladonna deadly nightshade has fewer large berries the main thing to look for is the edible nightshade huckleberries grow in bunches and vome in different sizes. Ive had tiny ones and large blueberry sized. Belladonna is deadly like the name says and has a single berry no bunches also has a brownish purple bell flower. The edible ones have white flowers...make sure which one you have before you eat them
Please! As others have noted, this is not the native huckleberry! You are showing a species in the nightshade family, solanaceae. Huckleberries are in Ericaceae. Totally different species!
That's a different species in the nightshade family, solanaceae. Huckleberries are in Ericaceae. Though I'm not sure which variety they showed here, it could be the one you are referring to.
@@TheNorthwestForager No kidding! Talk about confusing. I'm guessing it's because the berries are similar and it makes people think they can have real Huckleberries in their yard. True Huckleberries are hard to find, and really hard to grow, so I'd guess that this easy to grow variety sells really well.
@@GardenUPLandscape It is the one he is referring too in his comment TNF is correct.. What is growing at home in video are 100 percent NOT huckleberry and not related at all..he is mixing the 2 very confusing
I lived in North Idaho for years I lived in Coeurd'alene and in the mountains around coeurd'alene bonners ferry sand point priest river priest lake and bonners ferry their everywhere come summer generally July huckleberry mountain outside of Coeurd'alene is a good place to pick them and huckleberry bay on priest lake and many other areas going into montana as well on top of Thompson pass outside of Murray Idaho is a good place you have to hike a bit but there are hill sides full of them. There are good spots around lake pendoriell'e or ponderay as most people call it.
Can you please show more do’s and don’ts about picking the ones in your garden? Is picking with a little green on the berry dangerous? If you do pick too early will they ripen? First time planting these!
I have heard that ones that are not fully ripe are poisonous. So take care and make sure that the berries are fully ripe before you eat them. They should be dark blue and the skin dull, if they are fully ripe.
You can eat true huckleberries vaccinium unripe...but garden huckleberry are part of the nightshade family and berries should only be consumed fully ripe which is no green, dark purple with a dull sheen. Shiny ones are not fully ripe. They should also be cooked before eating or they can upset your stomach. Most likely you have garden huckleberries which are pretty common. I made jelly with mine. It was different like sweet and savory at the same time. I didnt care for it on buttered toast, but mixed into different recipes it was good.
Me in 1956 picked huckleberr in the woods with my mom. So did her mom and she was born in 1895 m. She picked huckleberries and so did her mom picked huckleberries. This were our family’s traditional, probably for centuries on Turtle Island now renamed America. So picking Huckleberries is not new.
For several reasons that's a no :( They need very particular soil, elevation, water and light conditions to be able to grow. Studies at both the University of Idaho and the University of Washington have proven it to be nearly impossible to grow them in cultivation. Further, it is damaging to native populations and I believe it is illegal to remove them from the wild (plant poaching) and can have devastating results on local populations for years after.
Real huckleberries are in the Vaccinium group, meaning they relate to blueberries. Vaccinium plants tend to have broad, shallow, sparse roots; huckleberries are not an exception. Destroying just a few roots could easily kill it, meaning the uprooting would be worthless. That said, there are better varieties of huckleberry (that are in the Vaccinium group instead of the Solanum group like these less-poisonous nightshade berries in the video). You may get lucky and find a couple Vaccinium huckleberry plants at a local nursery. Just be prepared for the immense headache they're gonna be; Vaccinium huckleberries are piiiiicky!
those look nothing like the huckleberry plant shown.. that looks like some variety of nightshade. this is like if you were to call cows as "farm bison."
Yup. Nightshade huckleberries (or 'garden' huckleberries) are related to nightshade, in the Solanum group. Wild huckleberries are in the Vaccinium group with blueberries. Vaccinium huckleberries are a lot more finnicky than the nightshade huckleberries, thus, people tend to grow the nightshade huckleberries instead. If you're devoted enough you may be able to find a nursery that sells vaccinium ovatum or vaccinium parvifolium; neither are the exact same as what's found in the wild, but they're a lot closer to the wild kind. Frankly, I think they shouldn't call the nightshade stuff 'huckleberries' at all. It's more like 'Nightshade 2.0- We Swear It's Safe'.
@@hauntedshadowslegacy2826 They are safe, assuming they're correctly identified and fully ripe when harvested. But to me they should be, "Nightsnade 2.0-We Swear Someone Thought They Tasted OK".
I have googled a simple question like "how long do huckleberry live" and there is not one place that tells you.... Does anyone in the world know how long they live??
You guys should put the huckleberry recipes here for people so we can print the recipes out and make it... would love that :)
We live here on the central coast of California and two years ago these just randomly started growing in our backyard and didn’t know what they were. I do some gardening and we thought at first it was an eggplant or some kind of tomato and then looked it up and it ended up being a huckleberry, all the sudden they started growing back after not growing back for about a year they come out from under our house, I finally just put a tomato cage around it! They are hairy and have leaves like a tomato 🍅 and they don’t produce many berries that’s why I’m on here researching them so I can actually use them! 😆💪👏🌱 thanks for the video!
Garden huckleberries priduce a large amount of berries even on barely surviving plants. Belladonna deadly nightshade has fewer large berries the main thing to look for is the edible nightshade huckleberries grow in bunches and vome in different sizes. Ive had tiny ones and large blueberry sized. Belladonna is deadly like the name says and has a single berry no bunches also has a brownish purple bell flower. The edible ones have white flowers...make sure which one you have before you eat them
Please! As others have noted, this is not the native huckleberry! You are showing a species in the nightshade family, solanaceae. Huckleberries are in Ericaceae. Totally different species!
We call those here in Oregon black nightshade (solanum nigrum).
That's a different species in the nightshade family, solanaceae. Huckleberries are in Ericaceae. Though I'm not sure which variety they showed here, it could be the one you are referring to.
@@GardenUPLandscape That exactly what I was thinking. Wonder why they're calling them huckleberries 🤔
@@TheNorthwestForager No kidding! Talk about confusing. I'm guessing it's because the berries are similar and it makes people think they can have real Huckleberries in their yard. True Huckleberries are hard to find, and really hard to grow, so I'd guess that this easy to grow variety sells really well.
@@GardenUPLandscape It is the one he is referring too in his comment TNF is correct.. What is growing at home in video are 100 percent NOT huckleberry and not related at all..he is mixing the 2 very confusing
Their common name is exactly that: Garden Huckleberry. The confusion is just like calling all different edible and nonedible things nightshades.
I lived in North Idaho for years I lived in Coeurd'alene and in the mountains around coeurd'alene bonners ferry sand point priest river priest lake and bonners ferry their everywhere come summer generally July huckleberry mountain outside of Coeurd'alene is a good place to pick them and huckleberry bay on priest lake and many other areas going into montana as well on top of Thompson pass outside of Murray Idaho is a good place you have to hike a bit but there are hill sides full of them. There are good spots around lake pendoriell'e or ponderay as most people call it.
I live in Idaho and google growing huckleberries at home... What do you know! First result! Love Idaho!
I lived in Idaho most of my life and never seen Huckleberries in the wild, but was more concerned with the critter who dropped some jam on the ground.
Can you please show more do’s and don’ts about picking the ones in your garden? Is picking with a little green on the berry dangerous? If you do pick too early will they ripen? First time planting these!
I have heard that ones that are not fully ripe are poisonous. So take care and make sure that the berries are fully ripe before you eat them. They should be dark blue and the skin dull, if they are fully ripe.
You can eat true huckleberries vaccinium unripe...but garden huckleberry are part of the nightshade family and berries should only be consumed fully ripe which is no green, dark purple with a dull sheen. Shiny ones are not fully ripe. They should also be cooked before eating or they can upset your stomach. Most likely you have garden huckleberries which are pretty common. I made jelly with mine. It was different like sweet and savory at the same time. I didnt care for it on buttered toast, but mixed into different recipes it was good.
Can you grow these in containers?
Do they sell the seed I need to buy to plant in spring?
You need a root online you can burnt ridge
Me in 1956 picked huckleberr in the woods with my mom. So did her mom and she was born in 1895 m. She picked huckleberries and so did her mom picked huckleberries. This were our family’s traditional, probably for centuries on Turtle Island now renamed America. So picking Huckleberries is not new.
Can't we uproot a few from the forest and transplant them at home?
For several reasons that's a no :( They need very particular soil, elevation, water and light conditions to be able to grow. Studies at both the University of Idaho and the University of Washington have proven it to be nearly impossible to grow them in cultivation. Further, it is damaging to native populations and I believe it is illegal to remove them from the wild (plant poaching) and can have devastating results on local populations for years after.
Real huckleberries are in the Vaccinium group, meaning they relate to blueberries. Vaccinium plants tend to have broad, shallow, sparse roots; huckleberries are not an exception. Destroying just a few roots could easily kill it, meaning the uprooting would be worthless. That said, there are better varieties of huckleberry (that are in the Vaccinium group instead of the Solanum group like these less-poisonous nightshade berries in the video). You may get lucky and find a couple Vaccinium huckleberry plants at a local nursery. Just be prepared for the immense headache they're gonna be; Vaccinium huckleberries are piiiiicky!
those look nothing like the huckleberry plant shown.. that looks like some variety of nightshade. this is like if you were to call cows as "farm bison."
that is exactly what it is! this is not huckleberries he is growing at home
These are Solanum melanocerasum. They are called garden huckleberry, but not actually related to traditional huckleberries.
Yup. Nightshade huckleberries (or 'garden' huckleberries) are related to nightshade, in the Solanum group. Wild huckleberries are in the Vaccinium group with blueberries. Vaccinium huckleberries are a lot more finnicky than the nightshade huckleberries, thus, people tend to grow the nightshade huckleberries instead. If you're devoted enough you may be able to find a nursery that sells vaccinium ovatum or vaccinium parvifolium; neither are the exact same as what's found in the wild, but they're a lot closer to the wild kind. Frankly, I think they shouldn't call the nightshade stuff 'huckleberries' at all. It's more like 'Nightshade 2.0- We Swear It's Safe'.
@@hauntedshadowslegacy2826 They are safe, assuming they're correctly identified and fully ripe when harvested. But to me they should be, "Nightsnade 2.0-We Swear Someone Thought They Tasted OK".
where can i order it
I have googled a simple question like "how long do huckleberry live" and there is not one place that tells you....
Does anyone in the world know how long they live??
Real ones can persist for decades.
They give me the shits
Those are NOT “huckleberries”. That’s a nightshade.