Native gooseberries are fairly small and thin although the plants thrive. When I was a kid I ate them green or ripe. Today I can't be bothered.

Wild Saskatoons vary a lot between patches and years. The tame varieties started as selections from the wild.

Pictures would help..I find the small fruits are allot smaller this year due to the drought we have,...or they been like this all the time? Honeyberry this year isn't worth to pick for me,..first time in about 10 years, I can't water. What plum do you have.

I cant seem to load any pictures. Im on a galaxy S3? i dont know why it wont work. Dont know what honey berries are but perhaps i have both. One plant has fewer larger berries that i dont doubt are gooseberries and the others have lots of small berries clumped together that look similar but smaller the plants look very similar. I just found them (this is our second summer here on a 10 acre parcel) so dont know how they were last year. I had suspected the minimal rain may have had something to do with it. I wish i could show you the patch its a disaster and im not sure how to go about reviving it.

Not sure what kind of plums we have closest i can figure out they're wild plums? But we had bucket loads last year and it looks like this year wont be much different. Looks like they started with the 3 tree's a number of years ago now there are about 10 of them that are producing to some degree. We jucied them last year made a neon pink juice would probably make great jelly or syrup but haven't gotten around to it yet. In the old root cellar under the old house there are some canned plums but I'm not about to try them to see kf there good. Lol

There are multiple species of wild gooseberries and wild currants in Alberta. My ident skills are meager: If it has thorns and the right leaf it's a gooseberry. (Haven't really tried hard either, mind you.)

The domestic ones produce a lot more fruit. I carry Ben Nevis and Red Lake.

Named saskatoon cultivars are mainly selections from wild stock. In general the larger fruit is not as strongly flavoured. This can be an advantage. Some of the wild ones are overpowering. Sasks are self fertile. You don't need two.

When they get leggy and all the fruit is at the top, whack down in the dormant season and start over. They will come back from the root, but won't have any fruit the first year.

I gave up on gooseberries and currants because of the currant fly/bugs.

>>In the old root cellar under the old house there are some canned plums but I'm not about to try them to see kf there good. Lol<<

Yeah..I'd be careful also but be temped to open! lol

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Lauber, pictures from your plums/berries would be very much appreciated!