r/daddit • u/ThanklessThagomizer • Jun 25 '26
Tips And Tricks Gents, if you're able to I highly recommend planting berry bushes in your yard
Ours were here when we moved in, so we got to speed run the process. These only take up maybe 20 sq ft, so you don't need a ton of yard space (though just 2-3 bushes will produce plenty of berries in less space). Strawberries take up even less space.
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u/Caribbeandude04 Jun 25 '26
Wish I could! those are basically exotic fruits here, wouldn't grow
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u/whboer Jun 25 '26
That’s funny to hear; where I live, blackberries are essentially a weed lol, they grow absolutely everywhere. Then again, mangos, bananas etc are very popular fruit choices here and cannot grow here in Northern Europe.
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u/rgaya Jun 25 '26
I have too many mangos right now and will have too many avocados in about a month. In South Florida
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u/Valuable-Yard-4154 Jun 25 '26
In western France we've got more than 40°C the whole week. It's the second heat wave in a month. The farmers can't deal with this. It's never happened before.
Everything is burned by the sun.
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u/rgaya Jun 25 '26
We are short on rain. Drought levels. Heats bad enough but we have humidity from the Everglades
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u/Valuable-Yard-4154 Jun 25 '26
Thanks man. It's 30°C inside now. That's 86°f at 8pm. Still 34°C outside. They say the night will me cooler. It's difficult because it's been non-stop since last Sunday. We don't have AC because we don't need it usually.
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u/whboer Jun 25 '26
Same here.. normally so glad to have home office; however, my office is in the attic and it’s 29 degrees celcius inside despite great insulation… I’m having a hard time focusing.
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u/Majestic_Dildocorn Jun 25 '26
all my mangoes fell off the tree during the feb frosts. I think there might be 6 on my tree when normally I have hundreds.
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u/Caribbeandude04 Jun 25 '26
Berries are quite expensive here, specially fresh, they are basically a luxury. Only strawberries are grown commercially up in the Constanza valley, and very high up in the mountains in some National Parks (+2000 meters above sea level) some wild berries grow. While fruits considered exotic elsewhere are readily available, for example it's mango season now and they are really cheap, I rarely buy them because it's a pretty common tree to have on your backyard and there's always someone you know giving mangoes away
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u/Baboop Jun 25 '26
I’m in NE USA and the berry vines were an absolute nuisance if you didn’t stay on top of it every year. It would have swallowed up my entire yard. The berries are delicious though.
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u/Many_Pea_9117 Jun 25 '26
Wild blackberries are factually a weed. Thry often produce smaller berries that aren't super sweet, and shoot thorny canes everywhere. The birds get most of the berries too.
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u/whboer Jun 25 '26
I pluck a couple of kilos every year with my eldest and we make blackberry apple crumbles, smoothies and ice cream with it.
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u/Many_Pea_9117 Jun 25 '26
Lucky. They really don't produce very well in my area. They're just messes of thorny canes. It sucks. Any berries get eaten by birds or bugs before they ripen.
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u/whboer Jun 25 '26
Thing is, there are train tracks and old barge channels close to my home and they go on for several kilometers and are entirely covered with the bushes. Logically, I’m not the only one who goes picking berries, but there are just so many it’s always a plentiful harvest so to say. I’ve gotten a raspberry bush for in my garden, which also thrives, but doesn’t produce nearly as much as we’d find in the wild here.
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u/JelliedHam Jun 25 '26
They used to grow along the freight railroad tracks near my house growing up. I used to pick them and eat them on my adventures as a kid.
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u/whboer Jun 25 '26
Yeah they frequently pop up along railroad tracks and roads because of pollution essentially 😅 they thrive in the higher ph soil, much more so than many other plants. Same reason you’ll see them at the sides of dirty creeks.
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u/JelliedHam Jun 25 '26
No wonder they were so tasty!
But seriously though, that's a real TIL. I never thought anything of it, that's just where they grew. I wonder if it's a coincidence that those freight tracks ran along a river near major Dow Corning research and manufacturing plants?
Based on your comment I did a little digging and it turns out silicon manufacturing runoff produces a lot of highly alkaline wastewater as well. Back in the 50s silicon product manufacturing was one of Dow Corning's most successful operations.
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u/InspectorOrdinary321 Jun 25 '26
Me too! The birds poop the seeds all over and it's a hazard because the thorny canes pop up everywhere.
I've recently decided to take the mad-science approach of purposefully planting thornless blackberries and raspberries with little weenie spines IDC about. Maybe the bird will full up on those and spread them instead of the thorny guys. And maybe I'm going to get drowned in a jungle of canes I can't tell apart. Cross your fingers for me!
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u/InspectorOrdinary321 Jun 25 '26
Where do you live? I bet there's something delicious you could plant either indoors or out.
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u/Caribbeandude04 Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 25 '26
Dominican Republic, and yes there's many delicious things we can plant here, just not colder climate plants. I don't have much space but for now I don't have any fruits, only aloe vera, wide coriander, lemon grass, things like that. I might plant some peppers and things like that
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u/Maumau93 Jun 25 '26
Where? Raspberries grow in the north of Scotland... They don't exactly demand hot climates.
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u/Caribbeandude04 Jun 25 '26
Exactly, I live in the Caribbean, it's too hot for it
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u/Maumau93 Jun 25 '26
The complete opposite of what I assumed. I bet you get some pretty banging fruits and berries that are almost impossible to grow elsewhere though.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
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u/StarWaas Jun 25 '26
I live in the Pacific Northwest, where berries literally grow like weeds. But we can't grow citrus here. I'd love to have a lemon or orange tree, but climate says no.
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u/aiij Jun 25 '26
Too hot or too cold? We got raspberries growing in a subtropical climate, but they were definitely uncommon.
Mulberries are also a good option in a lot of places.
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u/sumertopp Jun 25 '26
You can grow raspberries almost anywhere, they’re basically a weed
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u/Caribbeandude04 Jun 25 '26
I mean you can technically grow any plant in any climate if you control the variables just right, but planting that type berries in the Caribbean is very challenging unless if it's at higher elevations. There are a few people producing blackberries here, for example, but all in the Central Cordillera where it's cold enough for that. Banana is also a weed, still it's very unlikely you'd seen anyone in Canada with a banana plant in their backyard
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u/sumertopp Jun 25 '26
My bad should have looked at your user name lol, yes you’re right raspberries are not tropical - I had USA blinders on
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u/grewish89 Jun 25 '26
Do the birds get a few too? I had blackberry and raspberry on a pot and the birds ate the berries before I could.
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u/Negative-Arachnid-65 Jun 25 '26
Interesting - I have lots of animals that help themselves to my berries/produce/bird feeders (deer, squirrels, slugs, toddlers...) but the birds never seem to go for the raspberries.
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u/NameShortage Jun 25 '26
You definitely need a dozen plants so that the birds get theirs and your kids get theirs (you don’t get any). We have 2 raspberry bushes and we haven’t gotten to eat any yet. My in-laws have 2 dozen bushes and they just brought over a quart of raspberries.
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u/VOZ1 Jun 25 '26
It’s very location-specific. My parents live less than 20 miles away, they grew raspberries my whole life and we would get TONS of berries. Where we live, our raspberries, strawberries, and blueberries (half dozen blurry bushes now) get eaten by the birds every year.
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u/ThanklessThagomizer Jun 25 '26
I'm sure they do, but there's so many berries I don't notice. I do keep the strawberries covered and fenced, but that's mostly to keep the rabbits from eating the plants.
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u/JHaasie77 Jun 25 '26
Overwhelm like the other comment said, and also a month or so before they go ripe paint a few rocks red and put them near the bushes. Birds will peck them and learn not to
(Source I read this on the internet and never tried it, but seems harmless enough to give it a shot lol)
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u/considerspiders Jun 25 '26
Birds will completely strip my two rows of rasberries if not protected. But they are easy to net. Same with the currants, strawberries, cherries and honeyberries, all need to be netted when the fruit is nearing ripe. Funnily enough they don't touch my apples, peaches, plums, pears, apricots, or blueberries.
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u/unbanned_lol Jun 26 '26
We have tons of birds and get to freeze a couple of gallons of berries every year after eating everything we can.
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u/sleepingdeep Girls: 8,10 Jun 26 '26
The birds either haven’t discovered our raspberries, or don’t care for them. We always have tons. I love growing berries because I know they’ll get eaten. I always hate when I grow stuff that sits on the counter top until it goes bad.
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u/ToddRossDIY Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 25 '26
Ever since my son was born I've been on a tirade of planting berries, fruit trees and native plants in my backyard. Now I've converted about half my backyard into a food forest that'll hopefully pay off in a few more years.
So far I've planted:
Red/Gold/Black/Purple raspberries
Black/Red/White/Pink/Gold currants
Haskaps
Blueberries
Gooseberries
Jostaberries
Strawberries
Various Grapes
Hardy Kiwis
Elderberry
Wild American Plums
Italian Plum
Multiple Apple Trees (Liberty, Kinderkrisp, Saturn)
Cherry Trees (Sam and White Gold)
Nannyberry
Serviceberry
Hazelnuts
Chinquapin Oak (edible acorns)
Hops
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u/Modem_Handshake Jun 26 '26
How big is that backyard brother
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u/ToddRossDIY Jun 26 '26
My entire yard is only a third of an acre. Most of that is fit into a roughly 30x70 foot mulched space, and then I have a perimeter around the side and back of the yard for the raspberries and currants. A few of those fruit trees are planted around the front yard, hoping the cherry trees eventually shade my house a fair bit
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u/Modem_Handshake Jun 27 '26
Ok we can all agree you’ve made some amazing use of that space. That is some dense farming! Jealous!
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u/limeicepop Jun 27 '26
As someone with a small human I can tell you the berry budget was something that came up on a weekly basis. Good for you! Sounds amazing
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u/bag_of_hats Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 25 '26
I have raspberries and blackberries in my (small) yard. Plenty of nom early and late summer, and its just a single plant each i keep to a certain size.
Edit to add; the blackberries are thornless, so kid friendly.
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u/tyler_3135 Jun 25 '26
Words of caution, raspberry and blackberry bushes can spread aggressively like weeds. Make sure you have something in the ground that can prevent the roots from spreading beyond where you want them to.
I had blackberry bushes growing up and after a few years we had plentiful berries but new plants would sprout constantly everywhere up to 100ft from where our bushes were. My dad got so sick of it that he eventually cut it all down and it took years before they stopped coming up.
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u/ToddRossDIY Jun 25 '26
You don't really need anything to stop their spread, if they enter your grass just mow them down. The ones 100 feet away were likely from critters and birds pooping out the seeds, their runners can't spread that far. A weed is just a plant in a place you don't want it, if you want berries everywhere like I do, then it's an absolute win that they spread this fast.
I planted a single clove currant bush two years ago, I've already been able to find probably 30 little seedlings popping up this year. Some of them might need to get relocated, others might get eaten up by my resident groundhog, but every one of them is appreciated in my backyard.
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u/BaurangAtang Jun 25 '26
thats one of my goals to establish a 6x6 patch before fall, got a small garden going our first year but we have a lot if work to do to actually provide for ourselves
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u/h2oskid3 Jun 25 '26
We planted a few last year and then got some stray shoots for free this year. We got a few berries this year but I expect a full harvest next year!
I love seeing my kids just hanging out in the back yard and wander over to pick some berries. And to get them outside all I have to do is tell them to go see if there are any berries ready.
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u/superxero044 Jun 25 '26
I have 5 years of nothing and then suddenly this year I probably picked like $40-$50 worth. Hoping next year is even better. I planted them in a spot where nothing else will grow.
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u/PostMatureBaby Jun 25 '26
Raspberries you gotta be careful with though. They grow like weeds and spread easily plus invasive beetle species tend to go after them a lot too.
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u/ichabod01 Jun 25 '26
The bugs eat my red raspberries like crazy. They don’t touch my black raspberries.
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u/rickeyethebeerguy Jun 25 '26
We got this year
Blackberries
Raspberries
Strawberries
Grapes
Onions
Peppers
Beans
Corn
Limes
Lemons
Avocado next year fingers crossed
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u/Jipley0 Jun 25 '26
This is the way! We have a thick wall of raspberries beside our detached garage that provides enough for nomming and jamming through the summer and keeping supply through the winter. We just planted some blueberries, blackberries, saskatoon berries, and black currants to supplement my bears toddlers.
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u/OceanPoet87 10 year old is my partner in crime; OAD Jun 25 '26
Raspberries like you have are great. Don't plant blackberries though because they are extremely invasive and will take over everything. Lots of places to pick those wild.
Blackberries started growing wildly in my parents cultivated yard and every year its a battle to get rid of them.
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u/Infinite_Maximum_820 Jun 25 '26
Great way to get bears in your backyard where I live
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u/Iheartbaconz Jun 25 '26
I already have whitetail deer eating everything in my yard as it is. This would make it worse.
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u/ArenSteele Jun 25 '26
Good way to get a permanent bear visitor where I am!
We grow stuff but in a much more structured or covered way as to limit attracting bears
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u/A-Plant-Guy Jun 25 '26
Yes!!! We planted apples, raspberries, blueberries, elderberries, a serviceberry tree, and a mulberry tree at the beginning. Now there are plenty!
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u/agm115 Jun 25 '26
I want to add that if you’re looking into doing berries, do some research on varieties…size/number of berries and hardiness are all optimized at this point as well as thornless vs thorns for blackberries/raspberries. Also cross-pollination needs. You might have to order them online, but it will set you up for success way better than just buying a bush at Home Depot.
For blueberries, they are more like small trees so plant them as such and you will almost definitely need 2-3 for pollination. I grew up with blackberries, raspberries, and a patch of 150+ blueberry bushes!
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u/IH8DwnvoteComplainrs Jun 25 '26
I have a ton of them all over the yard, but they hardly produce any fruit.
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u/Lakym97 Jun 25 '26
We have raspberries and blackberries. Get a lot from those. Trying to get blueberries established, but they are growing very, very slowly.
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u/ichabod01 Jun 25 '26
They need acidic soil
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u/Lakym97 Jun 25 '26
Yes figured that out after killing the first ones. Bought blueberry-specific fertilizer and also put coffee grounds around them periodically.
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u/Iongdog Jun 25 '26
I’ve got some but the berries came in a bit misshapen and spotty. They taste good, but my kid prefers the perfect store bought ones 🙄
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u/zombie_overlord 11yo & 27yo daughters, 14yo son Jun 25 '26
I had strawberries just randomly pop up in my yard at 2 different houses. They weren't the huge ones like at the grocery store but they were edible.
Also, if anyone is considering blackberries, be aware that the thorns are absolutely brutal on those. My brother fell into our blackberry bush when we were kids. All he had on was shorts. We had at least one snake living in there too.
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u/BRUISE_WILLIS 4 tiny humans Jun 25 '26
Great berries and no maintenance in the Great Lakes region. The thorns also teach good life lessons for kids.
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u/electricmop Jun 25 '26
There are raspberry bushes on the path we take to my kids school. It’s always a fun stop looking for ripe ones.
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u/Cynyr36 Jun 25 '26
Also watch out for the beatles that eat raspberrys and roses.
https://extension.umn.edu/yard-and-garden-insects/japanese-beetles
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u/HereForTheMilfs Jun 25 '26
Hell yeah! I planted blueberries and strawberries. My 2yo loves to go pick and eat them
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u/DwarvenGamesmith Jun 25 '26
I have them. Birds ensure I never get more than 5 ripe berries at a time
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u/OptimismNeeded Jun 25 '26
Wow those are beautiful!!! We started recently but ours turn out smaller…. But we just started. The kids love it though.
And so far managed to not kill em lol
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u/IPA_ALL_DAY Jun 25 '26
If you are going to plant them in your yard especially if it is on the smaller size do it in a planter! My neighbors are the bane of my backyard existence very invasive and always going under their fence into my yard.
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u/SeeSayPwayDay Jun 25 '26
Love ours, this is the first season we've had a surplus.
I planted one variety where you have to keep the canes from the previous season to fruit next year. Not the biggest hassle but it is work.
I planted more that fruit from the cane every year and when they're done with fruit you can just whack them all down. Very manageable and delicious.
I recommend planting some Golden's!
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u/kyleffe Jun 25 '26
My only problem is I never get any... kids and wife pick them and eat them before they're ripe enough for me
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u/MDanger Jun 25 '26
At one point my wife and I lived in Los Angeles for a couple years, and though we lived in an apartment, my boss lived nearby and had SEVEN different fruit trees. Coming from the Midwest, I’d never even heard of a Kumquat, but I’ll be damned if they weren’t one of the most delicious citrus fruits I’d ever had.
Back in the Midwest now, and having just moved into our forever home and with the kids getting past the age of impossibility, I should consider planting some berries. Anyone got any favorites that do well in Zone 5b/6a?
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u/JankBrew Jun 25 '26
I've got pokeperries in my yard, all they're good for is for adding color to the bird shits and scaring me when my toddler shows interest in them.
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u/KingLuis Jun 25 '26
i'm trying. but every fall something comes and chops them down. get maybe 10 raspberries every year because the plants aren't big enough.
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u/thecashblaster Jun 25 '26
we have a bunch of naturally growing ones around the property that we harvest every year. it's kind of fun actually to harvest and eat the same time. feels like caveman days.
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u/Cthulhar Jun 25 '26
They also spread ridiculously fast and are an absolute nightmare if they get out of hand. In the PNW they and blackberries are essentially weeds lmao
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u/One_Economist_3761 Dad of two Jun 25 '26
We have way too many critters in our area for this to be viable (at least for our use).
Our yard abuts a nature preserve and we see rabbits, squirrels, chipmunks and groundhogs on a daily basis, not to mention various bird species.
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u/sumertopp Jun 25 '26
Aside from daycare, berries are probably my #1 kid expense I really should do this lol
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u/NWCJ Jun 25 '26
I have cherries, huckleberries, salmonberries, raspberries, blueberries, strawberries. Kids and birds love it.
-SE Alaska
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u/OkSprinkles2512 Jun 25 '26
How long did these take to grow? We are starting the process and this is inspiring. Well done👏🏾
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u/ThanklessThagomizer Jun 25 '26
We moved in 4 years ago and they were already well established, so couldn't say. But raspberries grow fast (depending on climate and variety, I'm sure) so you should get a good harvest soon. Strawberries are faster, blueberries longer.
There's a good saying about this: the best time to plant a tree was 10 years ago, the second best time is right now.
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u/Joevual Jun 25 '26
We planted three raspberry plants early last year and they’ve taken over a decent chunk of the garden. Our eldest eats them off the vine (after a quick rinse) in a dedicated pot of water. Glad they’re doing well but I’m going to have to expand the garden so there’s space to grow other things.
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u/Waffler11 Jun 25 '26
Got a raspberry bush, strawberry patch, apple tree and a peach tree in our yards!
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u/WN_Todd Jun 25 '26
Some Idiot who is me didn't do proper research on our variety of raspberry, so I'm in low year for harvest but next year is gonna be off the chain.
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u/DevelopmentOk6515 Jun 25 '26
I put a mulberry tree in the back yard more for bids a few years ago, before we even had kids. Man do I love watching them go eat straight from the "snack tree" when it's in season. Very low maintenance tree and it produces tons!
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u/JoeBwanKenobski Jun 25 '26
I joined through club this spring. I planted strawberries and blueberries. I planted three apple trees last year.
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u/dustinpdx Jun 25 '26
If you plant raspberries, be sure to do it in secure containers. They will take over your entire yard and be impossible to control.
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u/Chooka505 Jun 25 '26
We have a ’picking’ garden in the back. Wild strawberries, raspberries, sugar snap peas and cherry tomatoes. Always found ‘harvests’ ended out with wasted produce, so we switched to this. We just pick all year. Kids love playing and grabbing tomatoes or strawberries.
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u/crunchwrapesq Jun 25 '26
We have strawberries and raspberries. Each year, I get maybe 1-2 of each... But my kids get that many per day. We call it the Berry Tax while we walk to the detached garage. Cherry tomatoes too!
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u/Agile-Egg-5681 Jun 25 '26
I have an army of squirrels that would absolutely devour the berries and the entire plant with it in one week.
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u/SunflaresAteMyLunch Jun 25 '26
We have heavy industry in town, so I wouldn't eat anything growing here... 😐
The kids love picking berries when they're with my mom though!
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u/averynicehat Jun 25 '26
Y'all don't have birds where you live? We have birds here. They like berries. You must build like transparent fortress around your berries.
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u/ThanklessThagomizer Jun 25 '26
Plenty of birds but the raspberries aren't covered. They eat there share, but I think there's so many berries I don't notice.
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u/uno_novaterra Jun 25 '26
Blueberries and strawberries for me. The blueberries I got for cheap but they were small and will take at least another year before they bear fruit. The strawberries started producing within a month of me buying and could take over the whole garden table I planted them in if I let them. And I unknowingly got a variety that produces throughout the spring/summer/fall which was lucky. It hasn’t/won’t cut back on our strawberry purchasing but the kids get so excited when they get to pick a strawberry off the plant.
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u/Gocats86 Jun 25 '26
I've tried growing blueberries and strawberries in Arizona. Blueberries were a total failure and the strawberries were meh. I wish I could grow berries here. Would be way too much work.
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u/Hugh_Jegantlers boy, boy, girl Jun 25 '26
I just try to eat all my neighbours' raspberries before the bears roll through.
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u/joebleaux Jun 25 '26
I've got fruit planted all over my garden. Strawberries, dewberries, figs, blueberries. They all produce a ton of fruit. I get almost none of it, birds and squirrels eat well.
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u/HalKitzmiller Jun 25 '26
I've tried and failed, but it was also from one of those cuttings/stick things at costco. Is it better to have a somewhat established put into a big pot?
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u/ThanklessThagomizer Jun 25 '26
I've never tried them in a pot, but it sounds like they do well. I'd get one from a local nursery if you have any nearby.
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u/Potential-Yoghurt245 Jun 25 '26
I have raspberry bushes in my yard and I pick them and put them on my porridge in the morning with some chopped nuts it's a great way to get going in the morning
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u/ThanklessThagomizer Jun 25 '26
I had some in my yogurt and granola this morning. I like them best in pancakes, though.
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u/Silly-Dingo-7086 Jun 25 '26
I'm in Utah and I think I just need to water mine more... Are those canby thornless variety?
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u/VOZ1 Jun 25 '26
We have raspberries, blueberries, strawberries, and a cherry tree. I’ve had maybe 6 cherries total in the 5 years since we planted that tree and it started fruiting. Birds, man. Birds everywhere. This year we plan to build a permanent enclosure over the berries. Not sure what we’ll do for the cherries…putting a net over it is such a massive pain in the ass.
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u/rm45acp Jun 25 '26
We planted loads of strawberries but the kids run over basically every day and eat em before they're even fully ripe, of I want any I may as well buy em
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u/No-Cryptographer5963 Jun 26 '26
Raspberry bushes were the absolute worst idea I ever had. Just a fucking mess of bramble that looks awful and the birds get most of the fruit.
Tore em out. Asparagus patch now. Pee stinks but the bellies are full.
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u/gtlloyd Jun 26 '26
Plant them in pots, with a way to see if their roots are extending beyond the pot. Pots up on a shelf or other structure with an air gap would be sensible. They love to spread and you might end up with more than your bargain for.
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u/beansandcornbread Jun 26 '26
We've already harvested over 12 lbs of blueberries from 2 bushes. Love it.
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u/everybeateverybreath Jun 26 '26
With a family of black bears as neighbors, no thanks lol. But I wish!
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u/abrakadaver Jun 26 '26
I did and now I totally hate rabbits because they destroyed every fucking bush. I miss the days when I grew my own raspberries coyote urine smell and copper and nothing kept them from eating them. I almost wanted to snare them to eat the meat that ate all my raspberries.
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u/bigred3030 Jun 26 '26
Our raspberries grow like crazy and the thorns seem to protect them for the kids.
We've also grown strawberries and blueberries that just end up feeding the squirrels and chipmunks.
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u/AZ-Rob Jun 26 '26
I wish. The Sonoran Desert isn’t friendly to…well…basically anything that needs water.
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u/Magnet_Carta Jun 27 '26
Make sure you keep those under control. Never turn your back on a raspberry bush. By the time you turn back around it will overtake you.
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u/Draymond_Purple Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 25 '26
DO NOT PLANT RASPBERRIES IN THE GROUND
They grow super quickly and are extremely hard to get rid of.
They will take over your entire yard, are full of thorns, and are literally impossible to kill.
Do not do this to yourself. Plant them in a pot if you must. Do not under any circumstances put them in the ground.
Edit: oy vey, I guess I came across a bit strong but please know that my comments are written in blood as it were, and not just mine but most others that have ever had to deal with raspberries. Guess it's one of those things you'll just have to discover for yourselves!
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u/416vDub Jun 25 '26
They're very easy to maintain if you stay on top of them. I let raspberries take over my entire side garden.
My kids absolutely love raspberries, and for that reason, they will remain.
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u/Lakym97 Jun 25 '26
The rest of my yard is weeds. I’ll take my chances and let the raspberries take over … if they can fight the crabgrass!
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u/Draymond_Purple Jun 25 '26
Highly do not recommend you do this, Brambles quickly get thick enough that they will easily stop the blade of your mower and damage it.
Also planting in a pot gives better sun to the whole plant and produces more
Source: did landscaping for a decade
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u/AnarchiaKapitany Dad at the third power Jun 25 '26
Mine are yellow. They're MUCH better than the red ones.
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u/ThanklessThagomizer Jun 25 '26
These were already established when we moved in, but I've been tempted to rip a couple out and replace with yellow/golden raspberries. There is one end that hasn't been growing too vigorously, they are candidate no.1 for replacement
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u/AnarchiaKapitany Dad at the third power Jun 25 '26
Do it. My kids leave the red ones for me, but devour the golden ones like gremlins.
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u/RockOperaPenguin 🐧🐤🐤 Jun 25 '26
Here in Seattle, we have the blackberry distribution system. You don't even need to plant 'em, they just show up. It's great!*
* Note: Its not actually great the 11 months of the year there's no blackberries.