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Bamboo (Bambusa) · Common grape · Himalayan blackberry · Oregon-grape · Quince
📍 10470 NE 6th Dr, Portland, OR 97211, USA
🗓 Season: August · September · October · July · November
🔍 When is it ripe?
Common grape: Fully coloured and separates easily from the stem. Taste is the best guide — sweet with little tartness. Harvest the whole bunch at once.
Himalayan blackberry: Large, fully black berries. Same cues as common blackberry: comes free easily, no red core, dull rather than shiny. Vigorous canes — protect arms when harvesting.
Oregon-grape: Blue-black berries with a dusty bloom in grape-like clusters. Very tart raw but edible; excellent for jelly and wine. Ripe when deep blue-black. High in vitamin C.
Quince: Yellow, fragrant, and very hard when ripe — not soft like apples. Look for a deep golden-yellow colour and a strong quince aroma. Inedible raw (very astringent); excellent for jam, paste, and jelly after cooking.
There are multiple grape varieties with vines coming over the fence just South of the PDX Mart that have bunches of oval and round red and purple seedless grapes on them that get ripe starting around late July of each year. My boyfriend said that they are the best grapes he has had in his whole life! There are also lots of clean blackberry vines and a large 20' tall quince fruit tree that reaches over the same fence. Quinces must be cooked to eat but make excellent jelly or marmalade. Bamboo and butterfly bush grow at either end of this cluster of edible plants.
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