I love them and picked them when I lived in southern Oklahoma. My nephew had a patch that was fairly close to the road and he would always tell us that we could pick them but to leave enough for the birds. LOL He had to be kidding, because it was hard enough to get the ones on the outside of the patch and impossible to get them in the middle, unless you could fly like a bird. Your picture makes me want blackberry cobbler.

Yum! In years past I used to pick wild blackberries by the bucketful. Seemed like I was the only one who knew about the large patches of them growing by some old railroad tracks in town. Since then, more people have discovered them and now they are generally picked over pretty quickly. But man, I used to make so many blackberry pies I'd have to give them away!

My mom was a city girl. When I was very young, the next door neighbor took her blackberry picking. They took cardboard boxes to stand on to give them some protection. All was going well till the neighbor said "watch out for snakes". Mom never went again.

We pick the ones we can get to here. A lot are too thick and overgrown to reach, so those stay for the birds.

Our native berries down here are done. They bloomed extra-early this year, like everything else down here, fruited early and were finished up early. Our native plums on our property were early in exactly the same way, and so were our cultivated plums. Everything was at least a month early, so our summer fruit season really has been more of a spring fruit season.

Yum yum!

Yum is right you lucky girl!!!

We pick at a patch in North Carolina. It's semi-managed by the park service, but infiltrated by poison ivy. The thorns are unbelievable, but I go every year as the bitter-sweet flavor of the wild varieties are unmatched by the thornless varieties I grow at home. Is there any thornless variety that has that bitter flavor? I want more than just sweet and sour. The wild, thorny patch I visit has many varieties: little barrel shaped ones that grow in huge clumps (less sweet, more bitter, fabulous), very large ones that are super soft and sweet ...

Those look amazing. I am hungry to go pick something fresh now. I may go hit that apricot tree again and see if there is anything left.

Picked another 6 gallons today. That brings my total this year, starting June 13th, to 46 gallons. I think I have another week of two of picking, usually every other day. I freeze mine on cookie sheets partially, the bag them in gallon zippies. The 6 gallons I picked today went right into starting a batch of wine. My right hand and arm is pretty torn up from almost 3 weeks of picking.

I'd love to find a place to go pick. My dad has some bushes along his road, and I grew up picking gallons every year. Around here, all they have are you pick farms where you have to pay. And personally, wild berries taste better.

Anyone in OKC know of some place to go?

oh man, i didnt get any this year, but im putting in 10 bushes this fall

This is fabulous. Way to go!

So I like the taste of the wild ones (gifted to me by a friend and/or I buy them at the farmer's market.) I see lots of cultivars for sale that produced larger and (in my opinion) not as tasty fruit. If I want to start a little patch, what should I do? Find some to dig up some where? Can someone recommend a kind that is the most tasty from the store? I know there are upright, no-thorn canes but I worry those are the least tasty (again...it's all a matter of personal preference!) Thoughts?