Muse
Lifer
- Jul 11, 2001
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I attack anything that looks like a blackberry on my lot. I see them from time to time. I'm familiar with the wild blackberries that grow in the hills etc. around here, I've been pricked by their thorns! I used to bicycle up into the hills and hunt for patches. I still have quarts of those berries on my shelves, unsweetened. I also canned them, adding sugar, for BB jam/preserves. With the quarts of unsweetened I have now I can make the occasional BB pie (yum!), but I can also make jam out of them, just add sugar, simmer and re-can.I'm trying to grow less Himalayan blackberry. Hack it back and dig out what I can, rinse and repeat for the next decade or whatever. The apple trees seem to be bearing fruit again this year, they gave last year a pass.
But in my yard, I figure it's highly unwise to let BB's get a foothold anywhere. I don't know how they find their way into my yard occasionally.
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