Good morning, afternoon, or evening depending on where you are in the world, hope you're

having a fantastic time.

In the garden, as we move into August, today we are going to discuss boys and berries.

The beautiful, beautiful fruit that I am almost about to plant here at the homes that I

have raspberries, I have blackberries, it's time to add the boysens to my garden.

But first, a little bit of history, the boysenberry is named after Walter Nott of Nott's Berry

Farms acquaintance, whose name is Rudolph Rudy Boisin, who managed to create a hybrid

of four different berry plants.

Berry's blackberries do berries and Logan berries.

Really interesting, he developed this berry species in the 1920s.

So Nott searched for boys and berries when word about the berries traveled to him and his

friend at the USDA, George McMillan Darrow.

They looked and found boysen, but he had sold his farm.

So the berry plants that remained there had gone wild, but with boysens permission they

got some canes back to Nott's Berry Farm and they tried to restore them.

Nott began selling his berries in 1932 after developing a thornless variety from the original

canes and Rudy Boisin's family managed to keep another thorned cane which ended up on

their property.

So these original plants saved from boysens farm were rediscovered when Rudy's granddaughter

was contacted by a historian who wanted to know more about the plant.

So in 2018, the boys and family reopened their berry farm, which is in Orland, California.

If you want to check it out, the new farm has 2,400 vines that come directly from the original

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