It’s dewberry season here in Lower Alabama and my littler kids are out hunting the property every day for ripe berries.

Late Sunday afternoon we hunted up enough cups of them for Rachel to bake two cobblers.

If you look closely, you’ll see some white mulberries mixed in. Our white mulberry in the Grocery Row Gardens only made a few handfuls of fruit this year due to the late frosts.

While hunting, I discovered one particular dewberry plant with larger, sweeter fruit. Look at the berries on the lower left compared to the “normal” dewberries on the upper right:

Though many people dislike dewberries due to their vicious thorns and invading habit, I’ll propagate a few of these for the nursery. This one plant was loaded with large, sweet, fruit. It would be worth growing in the right location. The original plant is growing beneath a popcorn tree alongside our driveway. Just gotta remember not to mow it.

There was a time in the past where I was doing a property consultation and came across a large, sweet wild blackberry – and failed to take cuttings. I have regretted it ever since.

There are a lot of genetic resources out in the wild. If you come across something wonderful, why not propagate it?