Ooh boy, summertime. There’s a lot to love about a summer day spent outside, isn’t there? Let’s set the scene:
Pollen wafts on the warm winds while the sun beats down, a hummingbird flits by and the hyperactive beating of its wings buzzes through your ears; you feel it more than you hear it.
Warm soil beneath your feet and calico cloud shapes in the sky above.
If you’re like me, you’re probably in your bare feet with a beer in your hand. All that sounds pretty good, but nothing says (or tastes like) “summertime” like a berry patch in the backyard.
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Far as I’m concerned, a berry patch is summertime incarnate.
There’s something that is simply spectacular about a bunch of prickly brambles that’ll sting you just as fast as they give you some delicious fruit, and it all depends on how careful you are in approaching them.
I can’t even eat store-bought blackberries anymore; they taste like pale and bland imitations of the vine-ripened, freshly-plucked bunch of aggregate fruit you get straight from the garden.
And raspberries? Forget about it. They’re a different fruit altogether when they’re freshly picked, compared to those chilled and store-bought in convenient plastic containers.
The only solution to your edible woes is to plant your own berry patch. And it’s not a project for people unwilling to put in the hard work.
Most berries require carefully prepared soils and growing areas to grow to their fullest, and they require regular care to do their best.
But for that brave, maybe foolhardy gardener, a berry patch will pay back the sweat and labor poured into it with the
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