PHOTO - blackberrying time

Dont know if you have these in the US, or what do you call them?
These are blackberries the friut of the Bramble, which grows wild everywhere here. Great berries in a pie (with apples) but those thorns are sharp.
David

I used to live in western Washington and the blackberries were literally everywhere. They'd swallow whole fence rows and break the wires with their weight. I once drove a Case 310 bulldozer with a blade into a big bunch of them trying to tear them out. I moved into the row until the tracks started slipping and when I backed out, the whole bunch followed me out like a coil spring unloading!
You can't beat them for cobbler or pie but you pay a bloody price for picking them.

Yea man, sure do like them in a cobbler or just on top a bowl off ice cream. A fellow just around the corner from us has a few rows of pick your own and they really were full this year. He had so many my kids went and picked a bunch and marked them up $1 a pint and sold them.
You have never seen as many Jap Beetles in your life as were on them.
They come in around here in July

Here is what I found on how to tell the difference

Blackberries are just black raspberries. Right? Wrong! Though the two are grouped together as brambles, blackberries and raspberries are different plants. To tell them apart at harvest, check to see if the little white "core" is left on the plant when the fruit is removed. If it is, the plant is a raspberry. If the core comes off with the fruit, it is a blackberry.

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Yes, we have those in the US. Here in the South East, they ripened about 2 1/2 months ago. Yes, we have thorns in them too.

KEH