Re: [nafex] Garden huckleberries

[Ginda Fisher <ginda@concentric.net>]

Boy, you all confused me.  "Huckleberries" are just the vaccinium that
grows in the woods in NH that isn't either lowbush blueberry or highbush
blueberry.  It tastes a lot like a bland seedy blueberry, which is to
say, not at all bad.  So I would have assumed that "garden
huckleberries" are just huckleberries growing in someone's garden.

Where does this Solanaceae grow?

Thanks,
Ginda Fisher

"Lon J. Rombough" wrote:
> 
> One of the annoyances of "garden huckleberries" is that the common name is
> applied to several species.  S. melanocerasum IS horrid.  But S. burbankii,
> which looks similar, is sweet and edible right from the bush.  Like many
> gardeners, I went through the usual testing of different "Garden
> Huckleberries" years ago and all were rank, unpleasant things until I got
> some of the true S. burbankii.  The flaws of the fruit are that the berries
> are soft and juicy, making them a mess to pick, the birds will spread them
> thoroughly, so that I have no need to plant them any more - they come up
> everywhere, and the plants look a lot like S. nigrum, which is supposed to
> be poisonous. Dr. Charles Heiser in Indiana is a Solanaceae expert who wrote
> a book that covers the Garden Huckleberry story extremely well.  Look for it
> and save yourself years of growing foul, unpleasant types like S.
> melanocerasum.
> -Lon Rombough
> ----------
> >From: Lucky Pittman <Lucky.Pittman@murraystate.edu>
> >To: nafex@yahoogroups.com
> >Subject: [nafex] Garden huckleberries
> >Date: Mon, Mar 25, 2002, 10:03 AM
> >
> 
> >At 08:13 AM 03/23/2002 -0600, Donna wrote:
> >
> >>     I'm afraid that writers for Pomona  may not have much to say about
> >>their fruit crops in 2002.  Maybe it will be a year for writing about garden
> >>huckleberries (yechh!!!) and ground cherries.  I've tried them in cobblers
> >>with apples, and the ground cherries are pretty decent.
> >
> >Yechh! is right.
> >
> >I grew those infamous 'garden huckleberries' (Solanum melanocerasum, if I
> >remember the scientific name correctly) one year in MO.  Beautiful plants,
> >about 3-4 ft tall, big clusters of white blossoms & big clusters of juicy
> >blue-black berries, bigger than any of the selected blueberry varieties.
> >BUT!!!  Even after boiling, leaching, and treatment with baking soda to
> >'neutralize' toxins, and addition of lots & lots of sugar, grape juice, and
> >a little lemon juice, pies & jams left me with a very discomforting
> >metallic aftertaste, suggesting that all the toxic alkaloids had not been
> >removed or neutralized.
> >
> >
> >
> >Lucky Pittman
> >USDA Zone 6
> >Hopkinsville, KY
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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