Discovered a plant in my front yard that gives off berries...help!

[BettinaAuSucre]

I moved into a home with an old front garden in it. It was previously torn out but never grassed over. Today i discovered what I thought was a few immature raspberry plant! I am so excited as I started a herb/veggie garden in the same plot! I want to make sure i get the most out of this plant. I was thinking about moving it closer to the more moist, less weed ridden part of the garden but i worry about harming the plants.

what can i do to make sure i get mature raspberries this season if they are indeed them?

here are a couple of pictures I took of the plant...can anyone confirm my discovery?

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4009/...bf7fd081_m.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4009/...bf7fd081_m.jpg

[Apple Girl]

Ok, I can't see the picture very well, but those look like wild strawberries to me. Raspberries grow on stiff, upright to arching canes, usually with thorns. This time of year they may have some foliage but likely would not have primitive berries yet. (Where are you located? That would make a difference in bloom time etc.) The fact that there are berries now, and that the plant looks herbaceous and not cane-based (looks like all soft leaves, not leaves attached to stiff stick like things) makes me think they are strawberries.

Have you eaten a berry yet? Both rasp. and strawberries will be soft and red when ripe. A super hard raspberry is not ripe yet. Does it taste like anything? I find wild strawberries to be kind of gritty, because their seeds are so big in relation to the rest of the fruit.

[JamieCatheryn]

Cut one open, see if it's white inside. Those look like the mock strawberry weeds we have all over the place here, which though not poisonous are tasteless at best. Great to collect and play pretend with IIRC. Invasive and useless though, if that's what it is.

[jocelyndale]

It's some sort of wild strawberry. It may or may not be tasty. I'd just eat one and see if it was sweet. If not, yank at will.

[kriket]

It's totally the yard berry. We have a bazilion of them all over our neighborhood. If you pinch one in half, they are all pithie and water. There is no substance.

I would take them out or they will take over your world.

[RubThyNeighbor]

They are wild strawberries and the one we have are really sweet. Sweeter than the strawberries I planted anyway. Give it a try.

[Pepper44]

We have those wild strawberries here too. Ours don't taste good at all. I ripped most of them out, they're extremely invasive. The few surviving plants DD enjoys picking the berries off and feeding them to the chickens...

[EyesOfTheWorld]

Are the flowers white or yellow? White flowers should be tasty wild strawberries (so much better than most varieties!) but yellow flower variety is the tasteless Indian mock strawberries.

[Pepper44]

Originally Posted by EyesOfTheWorld

Are the flowers white or yellow? White flowers should be tasty wild strawberries (so much better than most varieties!) but yellow flower variety is the tasteless Indian mock strawberries.

Oh that's good to know!! Mine are the yucky yellow flowers.

[SleeplessMommy]

based on the seed color in the image, looks like the mock strawberry. not tasty.

[EyesOfTheWorld]

Originally Posted by Pepper44

Oh that's good to know!! Mine are the yucky yellow flowers.

Same here. Boo!

Here's some pics -

So good!
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/60943/

Not so good.
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/61226/