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Post by shin on Jul 17, 2016 23:06:19 GMT
Here is one photo, and here is a link to a full sized photo. It is to the right of the ivy, a thorny branch growing out of the ground. I have these all over the property, they come out of the ground everywhere and just grow longer and longer, covered in thorns. It feels a bit too late to battle them this year, I'd like to get rid of them all as they are just getting started next year at least. I'll test out various ways of killing them this year in preparation and just keep hacking them back with the shovel in the meantime.
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Post by AD in WNC on Jul 17, 2016 23:13:18 GMT
I don't know what it is, but I put on leather gloves and pull it up. The base seems to have fewer thorns.
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Post by shin on Jul 17, 2016 23:21:54 GMT
I rarely see these berries but looking at the leaf pattern it looks like the same stuff, so here's a picture with the rare berries.
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Post by shin on Jul 17, 2016 23:27:18 GMT
Thanks AD, I tried and they are too strongly rooted to pull out. The base of a fresh growth has countless tiny thorns, unlike the too large to hold thorns on top with just gloves. The stems however are pretty weak and easy to break.
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Post by feather on Jul 17, 2016 23:38:32 GMT
Is it a raspberry? They spread by roots and they are thorny.
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Post by shin on Jul 17, 2016 23:43:04 GMT
I think you're right feather.. I only see the berries once in a blue moon, but when I look at pictures of raspberry plants that's what the leaves look like.
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Post by feather on Jul 17, 2016 23:50:17 GMT
shin, could you train yourself a hedge of raspberries? yum, yum! Not too thick, so you don't get thorned up and the mosquitos don't get you, not really close to the building? They do seem to take over!
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Post by shin on Jul 17, 2016 23:53:03 GMT
It looks like there's such a thing as 'everbearing' raspberries and 'summer bearing'.. These I think could be called 'never bearing', so I'd have to learn to give them whatever it is they like to have berries if I would plan to keep some.. I do like the idea of keeping some, and will think the idea over after I try out one of the raspberries..
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Post by here to stay on Jul 18, 2016 0:07:58 GMT
Come rains they may be a lot easier to pull up. They do not need much root to transplant.
They may actually be a lot more productive than you think but the birds have simply taken most of the berries.
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Post by shin on Jul 18, 2016 0:21:34 GMT
Tried one, they are worth trying to keep in a patch somewhere! I'll try pulling up the rest after it rains.
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Post by solargeek on Jul 18, 2016 1:02:19 GMT
Here is one photo, and here is a link to a full sized photo. It is to the right of the ivy, a thorny branch growing out of the ground. I have these all over the property, they come out of the ground everywhere and just grow longer and longer, covered in thorns. It feels a bit too late to battle them this year, I'd like to get rid of them all as they are just getting started next year at least. I'll test out various ways of killing them this year in preparation and just keep hacking them back with the shovel in the meantime. These are wild black raspberries. We have them everywhere. Delish! You can cut them down with a mower and they do not grow back. My Neighbor effectively wiped out her wild black raspberry patch thinking it would come back stronger!
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Post by Use Less on Jul 18, 2016 11:11:30 GMT
Wild blackberries! Let the fruits mature and EAT THEM! Or find an area where you would have space, and toss some berries there to start a patch. Read up on how to ID and cut out old canes, since they don't bear after a few years.
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Post by paquebot on Jul 27, 2016 13:13:27 GMT
For certain, those are blackberry-type leaves. I think that they are what we call dewberries. They are a low-growing blackberry which don't make long canes. Won't produce on this year's growth but will next year. Berries smaller than a regular blackberry but worth the effort to gather if there are enough of them.
Martin
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Post by oxankle on Aug 6, 2016 11:50:28 GMT
I had no idea dewberries grew so far N. Where I grew up on the Gulf coast there were no wild blackberries, no raspberries, only dewberries. They grew wild in neglected pastures, along the railroad tracks and sometimes along the roads.
My father and I would be sent out by Mama to get a bucket of dewberries for pie---there were ten of us, so we needed a milk bucket full of berries. One day picking berries in a ranch pasture my dad stepped on a big snake---we lived in rattlesnake country, so he jumped what seemed to me to be four feet high. Big blacksnake, but it sure made the morning eventful. One of the memories I'll never forget.
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Post by shin on Aug 6, 2016 12:17:37 GMT
They are all over the place here, obviously they love it. It's a consolation to me, who has tried to grow blueberry bushes but had them all die once their roots reached the regular soil instead of the potting soil.
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Post by paquebot on Aug 6, 2016 12:25:21 GMT
We have them here but mostly in open sandy wastelands. My most memorable year of picking them was about this time in 1951. Had a gallon honey pail and picked it full. Mother asked how they tasted and I told her that I couldn't swallow them. I had mumps!
Martin
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