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Blackberry (Rubus fruticosus) · Blueberry · Raspberry · Sumac
📍 459 Salt Pond Rd, Blue Hill, ME 04614, USA
🗓 Season: July · August · September · June
🔍 When is it ripe?
Blackberry (Rubus fruticosus): Deep black and pulls free with zero resistance. Juicy and sweet; no red remaining at the core. Harvest in the morning when cool.
Blueberry: Deep blue-purple with a silvery bloom; stem scar (not stem) at the top. Taste is the best test — a truly ripe blueberry is sweet and has no pink flesh inside. Let the cluster go fully blue before picking the whole thing.
Raspberry: Deep red (or gold/yellow for golden varieties) and slides off the receptacle — the hollow centre is the tell. Does not pull: a ripe raspberry separates at a touch. Extremely fragile; use within hours of picking.
*NOTE*: with blueberries please pay careful attention to the property markers (spikes) set in the ground - public land ends a meter or two from the road but you can still pick quarts and quarts without trespassing.
Along the public boat launch road there's plentiful blueberries along with some raspberries along the road and blackberries at the bottom. There's even some wild strawberries if you look carefully but we've never gleaned a full handful.
Mid-August blueberries are ripe but on their way out, raspberries are ripe, blackberries are mostly green.
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