Blackberries

**lilk** · 04-23-2008, 04:03 PM

We planted 3 blackberries bushes, and I just purchased 2 more today. I love fresh berries. Does anyone make jam? I would love to have a recipe for blackberry jam.
Last Friday we planted potatoes, peas, onions, and radishes. In a few more weeks we will be able to put out the rest of the seeds.

**FrugalMomof3** · 04-23-2008, 04:12 PM

No recipes but wanted to let you know I am jealous, no garden here, not enough room but even so the dogs would eat em' up

**itlw8** · 04-24-2008, 01:40 PM

I make both strawberry jam and blackberry jam for the recipe I only use the one in the box of pectin Use the one for freezer jam it tastes so fresh compared to a jam stored on the shelf but if no no room in a freezer there are recipes for regular jam in the box also that are very good.

**lilk** · 04-29-2008, 01:14 AM

Meg, thanks, I didn't even think about looking on the box of pectin for blackberry jam recipe. I love strawberry freezer jam.
Tracy, Sorry you don't have room for a garden.

**IntlMom** · 04-29-2008, 09:27 AM

My blackberry bushes are already growing nicely, and we plant a few more variety of berry bushes this year......
I love to make freezer jam, (wish I knew how to can stuff)

**perSue** · 04-29-2008, 10:06 AM

we used to make black berry pie, freeze the rest of the berries for pies later on.

or for breakfast, instead of cereal we'd have a bowl full of berries topped with sugar and wheat germ.

you can add fresh/frozen berries to cereal, oatmeals.

make muffins, pancakes, waffles, cakes... you name it!

but that's what WE did with it. we weren't into the jam making.

**Thrifty Mom** · 05-02-2008, 11:54 PM

We have wild blackberries & I have made a lot of blackberry jam in the last few years. I like the recipe on the low sugar pectin box (it's pink). It's less sugar we're eating & less sugar to buy. I process the jars in a water bath canner.

The recipe says not to double the batches, so I haven't, but I do make three or four batches back to back so I only have to clean up once.

**momof42003** · 05-04-2008, 04:24 AM

I have to tell you all that "grow" blackberries on purpose... Here in Oregon, we kill them... They are EVERYWHERE... I don't personally, but here they are considered a weed. We have plenty of wild ones just for the picking. Just had to share in MY giggle for the day.. I am glad that you have some to plant though. I love the taste of fresh blackberries.

**acidcookie** · 05-05-2008, 12:07 AM

Originally Posted by momof42003

I have to tell you all that "grow" blackberries on purpose... Here in Oregon, we kill them... They are EVERYWHERE... I don't personally, but here they are considered a weed. We have plenty of wild ones just for the picking. Just had to share in MY giggle for the day.. I am glad that you have some to plant though. I love the taste of fresh blackberries.

This is what I was thinking! I mean it's terribly sad that people killed them; ours ran rampant in our yard and my best friend and I LOVED eating from them all day. Our parents did NOT love, however, getting the berry stains out of our clothes