Coydon Wallham wrote:Good luck with the wild raspberries. I've seen wild raspberries like that all over the places I've lived for the last decade. Last year was the first time if found one tiny, pea-sized fruit that escaped harvesting by other critters. I'd sure be interested if there were some trick of timing or such to find them in quantity, they taste as good as the real thing (you shouldn't have to worry about false strawberries in Montana...)
Whoopsie! I'm very used to finding wild raspberries prolifically (esp black caps), so in this case meant to say "strawberries" as were mentioned in the previous video.
I came back to correct myself about the scarcity of said strawberries. I wandered off to investigate some deer snorts a few days ago and found myself in a patch full of wild strawberries. I think there are two 'tricks' to foraging these- one, they ripen during what is normally the height of mosquito season around here, so I'm not spending much time just wandering around outside at this point. However, the mozzies seem to be thinning out early this year so I wasn't adverse to taking the time to investigate this. Second, it helps to get your head down a little and look sideways to see the berries under the leaves, for being bright red they don't pop out much just walking directly over them. I suspect this may be partly because any that do grow out from under the leaf cover are visible to birds and are snatched up at the first sign of colour change.
I might actually say these are more flavourful than domesticated strawberries, but that might just be the fresh picked vs. store shelf phenomena...
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