It's sweet, what else. Perhaps ... but it was sour at some point. It was even almost bitter on its early stage. Gives you a pucker face at the taste of it.

However, that's the early stage, back when you thought the things you've sown and grown have already come to the stage of ripening.

The very first reaction is to pluck already! While your greedy eyes stare at the greens. Another voice screams; "Don't wait till they're red or the birds would pluck them before you. Let them ripen in a fruit tray or so!"

On some days, you just get there and find them over ripe and mushy already. Too late but still edible. Sometimes, they're already half bitten and sometimes already growing mildew. Beats me to figure that out because it's been scorching hot in Holland these days.

Despite the hints some insect give you, you just can't fathom when the right time is, to pluck your self grown fruits. Some, they're just so ready for the picking or perhaps you were just there at what they call - "the perfect timing."

Nevertheless, you have always hoped for that very moment when you can taste a berry sweet summer.

"Wait! That's a pear and it ain't a berry!" Yes, I'm just trying to show you they're fine despite looking so scorched earlier on. Btw, is it possible for a black berry and a raspberry to cross breed and look like that of that first pic? They taste sour though and never turned sweet at all.