Chokecherries taste best in later autumn.
The berries are a wine colour when they are ripe. The chokecherry shrub is about 1.5 metres to 3.5 metres in height. Chokecherries are picked and eaten fresh, or they are pounded into cakes, dried and stored. Gooseberries are picked, eaten fresh, or made into jams and pies. These berries are picked in the summer and dried for use in the winter.