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I realize that the word "huckleberry" immediately conjurs up thoughts of Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer book. As to more recent times, I think of Val Kilmer's role as Doc Holiday in the movie "Tombstone" muttering "I'm your huckleberry"...Well, that's a bit beside the matter at hand...sorry.
They grow to about 3 feet and usually do not require staking, but they do tend to "sprawl".Plant about a foot apart in a row... Often confused with the blueberry due to its close resemblance, huckleberries are a wild blue-black berry. Although very similar in taste, the big difference is the seeds within the huckleberry that give it a crunchy texture when fresh and its thicker skin. The flavor is a little more tart than blueberries, with an intense blueberry flavor. Huckleberries are not cultivated commercially, so you will have to find them in the wild. The entire fruit is edible...no need to remove the seeds. Huckleberries can be used interchangeably in most blueberry recipes, so if you find yourself with a huckleberry harvest, just choose a blueberry recipe and give it a whirl. Eaten fresh, they will not give you the expected blast of flavor. They need to cooked down with some sugar before the real robust taste will come thru for you. Huckleberry season is normally from June through August. To harvest a large quantity, spread a clean cloth on the ground and shake the plant; ripe fruits will drop onto the cloth. Store at temperatures just above freezing with high humidity.
A side note; They are best cooked down with some sugar added rather than eaten fresh, so please do not be disturbed by a lack of tastiness when you pluck one in the garden and plop it into your waiting mouth.... Also, these seeds are VERY small. They were a real fun chore to count out, so I placed almost 60 in every packet I made up. They will not look like many in the bags, so feel free to count them and you'll see why they were such a challenge to package...LOL
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Ive grown these before..The plants tend to get big,but produce tremendously...The Berries make a Great Pie... Fanned
Feb 4th, 2014 at 7:14:24 PM PST by
Original
Thank you for the input...Fanned back, too. I look forward to my first crop in between my trees in the orchard. I have read that birds will not touch them, fearing that they might be nightshade plants, which look very similar, but are toxic. The only way to tell them apart is how the fruit hangs on the limbs, with nightshade hanging it's fruit straight down--not upright like the huckleberry does.
Feb 4th, 2014 at 9:03:06 PM PST by
Original
Yum!! Fanned and watching... and bidding :)
Feb 7th, 2014 at 5:48:40 PM PST by
Original
Thank you so much for the interest!
Feb 7th, 2014 at 6:32:14 PM PST by
Original
Thank you for the bid, Michele. I am one of your fans, too.
Feb 7th, 2014 at 7:07:07 PM PST by

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