Has been a popular plant to talk about in permaculture here in Sweden too. First, I had them in my allotment plot, planted before me as a hedge. Nobody but me wanted to eat them. The crop was only a handful now and then. A summer a few years ago we went to Gotland and visited a garden thats also promoted a lot of permaculture practises. The café served cordial (saft) made of these berries and I was like, yeah. A halfhour later I was like NO!. Feeling so sick. The theory was that SOME people can´t stand them. But hey, just drop it, they are poison. The book that the swedish wiki refers to is published in 1976.
The article fails to mention the threat of birds. The berries are some of the first fruit to ripen the spring, right about the same time that the migratory return home. They're hungry and there's not much else for them to eat, so they'll wipe out your whole crop quickly. Birds nets are the most effective way to keep your crops safe.
Well, these berries are poisonous, gives womit, and redness to skin. Why grow them?
https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blåtry#cite_note-2
As kids we've been eating a lot of haskaps and never had any problems at all.
Has been a popular plant to talk about in permaculture here in Sweden too. First, I had them in my allotment plot, planted before me as a hedge. Nobody but me wanted to eat them. The crop was only a handful now and then. A summer a few years ago we went to Gotland and visited a garden thats also promoted a lot of permaculture practises. The café served cordial (saft) made of these berries and I was like, yeah. A halfhour later I was like NO!. Feeling so sick. The theory was that SOME people can´t stand them. But hey, just drop it, they are poison. The book that the swedish wiki refers to is published in 1976.
thanks for sharing. My son gets sick from eating Cherries. Perhaps we should ask the whole world to stop growing cherries ?
The article fails to mention the threat of birds. The berries are some of the first fruit to ripen the spring, right about the same time that the migratory return home. They're hungry and there's not much else for them to eat, so they'll wipe out your whole crop quickly. Birds nets are the most effective way to keep your crops safe.
Hi Scott, great point, I'll add that. Which location are you observing this from ?
Hey Paul. I'm currently in Niagara, Ontario Canada. Zone 6b