freshtendril: Cascade Bilberry Seed Last summer hiking along the high slopes of Mount Rainier, Washi
freshtendril:Cascade Bilberry SeedLast summer hiking along the high slopes of Mount Rainier, Washington, I came across the most wonderful patch of ripe, wild, Cascade Bilberries; Vaccinium deliciosum. And yes, they were very delicious. I’ve never had a better tasting blueberry. Complex, fruity and wild tasting. Better than most cultivated blueberries I’ve had. I collected many of the little fruits, dried some for later and in hopes to clean some seed to cultivate on my own in my blueberry/acid garden. I have to recreate a gravelly, sandy bed with pine bark or needle organic matter. An experiment to try this season. I’ve been cold stratifying the seed and we’ll see if they germinate. Stay tuned… -- source link
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