When I was seventeen years old, I visited Knott’s Berry Farm with my then-boyfriend (now-husband) and his family on a spring break trip to southern California.
He’d grown up enjoying the famous boysenberry pie and chicken dinners at Knott’s – plus the thrilling rides – and couldn’t wait to share all of that with me.
Until we arrived, I thought we were headed to a boysenberry farm crossed with a theme park. But as it turns out, this was not the case.
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While they still serve lots of boysenberry-infused food items, Knott’s is purely an amusement park these days.
That first day at Knott’s, the first roller coaster I went on nearly made me pass out. I’m not good with thrill rides.
But I’m excellent at eating pie. And that juicy slice of boysenberry heaven that I enjoyed was the shining star of my first trip to Knott’s.
Like raspberries and blackberries, these berries are actually ‘aggregate fruits’ rather than true berries, but we call them berries anyway.
They are large, juicy, and thin-skinned, and they mature from May through mid-July.
They begin to go bad just a few days after picking, and therefore aren’t typically shipped fresh to grocery stores by commercial growers.
What does this mean for the average boysenberry lover? Unless you want to eat them frozen or canned, you have to grow them yourself.
If you’ve ever grown other types of brambles like blackberries or raspberries, you’ll ace growing your own boysenberries.
But even if this is your first foray into cultivating this type of fruit, our guide will help you to grow the juiciest, tastiest
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