Blackberries by the Bushel

Blackberry picking is over for 2010. Berries are frozen or in jelly awaiting my wintertime yearnings for a taste of summer. This spring I posted some information explaining how eliminating the grass in a blackberry patch and using prescribed burning would not only improve quail habitat but increase blackberry production.

Is this picture worth a thousand words? The lower blackberry cane in the photo is actually just the fruiting portion of the cane from an area burned two years ago and the grass underneath eliminated. The small portion of cane in the top of the picture is the fruiting portion of a cane from the opposite side of the field trail which has never been burned. I will let the picture "speak" for itself!