Dewberry vs. Boysenberry

[Robert Hampton]

Are these the same or similar? Any difference in size ,taste or method of
growing?

[Susan K. Wehe]

Robert Hampton wrote:
>
> Are these the same or similar? Any difference in size ,taste or method of
> growing?

My boysenberries are thornless and have a fuller (for lack of a better
word) taste than my dewberries. If I were to recommend one on the basis
of taste or ease in cultivating it would have to be the boysenberry. I
grow both next to fences for additional support. But fortunately I have
the room to grow lots of both and my Grandfather's dewberries have a
place here too. Dewberries are best served with vanilla icecream IMHO.

Susan Wehe

[Brad Horstkotte]

> Are these the same or similar? Any difference in size ,taste or method of
> growing?

Boysenberry is a variety of dewberry.

Here's how a boysenberry would fit into the class hierarchy for
"bramble" fruits:

Brambles
Blackberries
Trailing (a.k.a. Dewberries)
cultivars: Boysenberries, Marionberries, etc.
Upright (Erect)
Raspberries
Summer Bearing
Fall Bearing (a.k.a. Everbearing)

There are also lots of cultivars of crosses between blackberries and
raspberries, such as Loganberries.

They're all grown roughly the same way; trailing varieties require
support (trellises), whereas upright varieties don't require it as much
(if kept topped off at a fairly low height); two-crop varieties are
pruned differently than one-crop varieties.
Brad

[kmat...@gmail.com]

I remember, as a kid, growing up in the little town of Goliad, TX, my mom and dad used to take us kids with them to go pick Dewberrys. Where we lived, they grew wild. We would go out to the country and Dad would park on the side of a little gravel road. We would all, then, grab our little plastic buckets and hit the ditches. The Dewberries grew in the ditches and would cling to the fences around there, and there we'd be with our buckets picking berries. We would get probably 5 or 6 gallons of berries at a time. Mom would make preserves and jelly from them and sell them. We loved the Dewberries, but all the little thorns we had to reach through, over, and around, tore our little arms and hands to pieces. But, it was a small price to pay for the end reward !!!

[T]

On 11/27/2017 04:09 PM, kmat...@gmail.com wrote:
> I remember, as a kid, growing up in the little town of Goliad, TX, my mom and dad used to take us kids with them to go pick Dewberrys. Where we lived, they grew wild. We would go out to the country and Dad would park on the side of a little gravel road. We would all, then, grab our little plastic buckets and hit the ditches. The Dewberries grew in the ditches and would cling to the fences around there, and there we'd be with our buckets picking berries. We would get probably 5 or 6 gallons of berries at a time. Mom would make preserves and jelly from them and sell them. We loved the Dewberries, but all the little thorns we had to reach through, over, and around, tore our little arms and hands to pieces. But, it was a small price to pay for the end reward !!!
>

Do any of these berries tolerate a cold climate?