June 7 saw my third formal harvest of the blackberry bush in my front garden.  "Formal" means that I put them in a container and weigh them.  (I haven't been keeping track of the times that I pick several blackberries off the bush and eat them immediately or the times that visitors to my garden indulge themselves.)

This harvest was the largest yield to date:  3 full pounds of blackberries.    This makes a grand total of seven pounds of delicious blackberries from this one bush so far.  It appears to me there are at least three pounds more left to ripen.  When all is said and done, I predict this bush will have yielded a total of 11  or 12 pounds of blackberries. At today's market value o $3.98 for 12 ounces, that's about $45 worth of blackberries. The blackberry bush in the other raised bed promises to be just as prolific.  Its fruit looks like it may begin to ripen in a week or so--just about the time this one finishes its harvest.

May 31:  First harvest yielded 1 1/2 pounds

June 2:  Second Harvest yielded 2 1/2 pounds

June 7: Third harvest yielded 3 pounds