Hello and welcome to Old Ways Gardening and Prepping. 🍀 Would like to welcome you to my wild backyard this partly cloudy afternoon. Was busy trying to do some weed eating and come across a very wonderful wild edible. Have been looking forward to finding some dewberries that were ripe but could not see anything due to the honeysuckle and everything else growing over them. Looking forward to finally getting my big weed eater in the shop so that I can knock down more of the wilderness in the backyard. Let me tell you a little bit about the wonders of the wild native dewberry.
In the eastern and southern United States, several native species, especially the northern dewberry, the bristly dewberry and the southern dewberry produce excellent fruits. Personally absolutely love dewberries and to me they actually taste way better than blackberries. Now don't let them fool you they can be as bitter as blackberries at times but they are usually sweeter and larger than blackberries. They have been growing here in North America way before the colonists arrived. Many Native American tribes harvested the berries and enjoyed them just like we can today.
The Dewberry is often confused with the Blackberry as they look quite similar. Dewberries fruit earlier and grow close to the ground like a vine. An infusion of the leaves can be used as a gargle for sore throats, irritations of the mouth or gums. The leaves can be chewed for bleeding gums. The infusion can also be applied topically to bug bites, scrapes and scratches. They are high in many vitamins and minerals here are few: vitamin C, copper, manganese, potassium and magnesium.
Personally plan on eventually making rows of berry plants behind my garden. One of the rows will be dedicated to dewberries so they can vine up and down the row on wires strung between posts. Hope this video encourages you to grow dewberries as well. They are not hard to grow at all and they do not circum to any diseases that I know of. Everyone take care. Have a blessed day and go outside and enjoy some sunlight. Hope you can find ripe dewberries as well to enjoy.
Blessings,
Teresa
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