Many years ago in ignorance I sowed a row of Garden Huckleberries and found
they were the same as black nightshade-a common weed in the area of Cheshire
where we lived.
Solanum Niger is not particularly flavoursome and I wouldn't recommend. Yuk
is a reasonably accurate description

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Is there anybody out there who actually likes the taste of
huckleberries,
lol?!

Do you mean huckleberries, or the misleadingly named 'Garden
Huckleberries'?

I've grown my first huckleberries this year and picked my first batch
of
ripe berries last weekend. I think they taste pretty vile, so does my
fiance and there's not much he doesn't like, particularly when it
comes
to
berries. Anyhow I managed to use them as I mixed them with
blackberries
and
bilberries I had picked during country walks and made a berry crumble.
Tasted very good too!

Ah. You must mean the garden huckleberry, which is just a grown-up black
nightshade. I don't find them vile - just rather lacking in flavour. I
prefer black nightshade, which is pleasantly sweet, though also rather
lacking in flavour.

Proper huckleberries are a species of whortleberry/bilberry/blaeberry.

Now the question is, can anybody recommend other ways of using
huckleberries, apart from mixing with other berries and sticking them
in
a
pie?

I only grew them once...

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Yes, sorry, should have said they are garden huckleberries. The one I
sampled was so bitter I had to spit it out - yuck, it was horrid!

I won't be growing them again...

Tracey