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Blackberry · Grape
🗓 Season: July · August · September · October
🔍 When is it ripe?
Blackberry: Fully black (not red or dark red) and comes off the stem with no resistance — zero pull. Dull rather than shiny; a shiny black berry is still slightly underripe and tart. Eat the same day for best flavour.
Grape: Berries fully coloured and slightly soft. Stem where it joins the bunch turns woody and brown. Seeds easily visible inside. Sweet throughout when fully ripe — taste from different parts of the cluster as they ripen unevenly. Grapes do not continue ripening after harvest.
Lower Bidwell Park is loaded with blackberry brambles and wild grapes, with vines extending into the trees! Many grapes are left unharvested, which turn into natural raisins on the vine. My daughter and I love to snack while walking through Bidwell Park in the spring and summer!
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