Post by heavyhitterokra on Mar 25, 2023 20:30:52 GMT -6
Quote, from Tucson Grower,
Well, nowhere near blackberries like you've got, heavyhitterokra, but I just got me a start of a thornless blackberry vine, on clearance at Walmart for $5. So far, so good. From prior experience, I know I'll need to set it on a timed drip line, before the heat of summer.
Growing berries here, is nothing like the, almost 10 years I spent in Oak Harbor, WA; many varieties of wild or naturalized Rubus species grew there, wherever you looked.
***Tucson, Thanks, for the memories ... I still remember the awesome berry plants I saw while living in Seattle for two years. I've never seen bushes as prolific as those were. I'll bet their plants were 8' feet tall!
Being from Oklahoma, I picked berries like crazy that first summer. It seemed like the natives had very little interest in picking berries, which seemed so strange to me, but after the second summer in that environment I began to understand why. There were berries everywhere we looked, raspberries of every color, red, black, yellow, and wild blackberries galore!
They had native plums there that were as bag as any I've ever seen in the grocery stores. They had so many plums falling from their overhanging branches that portions of the highway were slicked over with squished plums, so many plums the birds wouldn't even eat them. That whole area was amazing to me that way. Kind of like the Garden of Eden in a way, but no one there had a decent tomato and okra was unheard of.
Well, nowhere near blackberries like you've got, heavyhitterokra, but I just got me a start of a thornless blackberry vine, on clearance at Walmart for $5. So far, so good. From prior experience, I know I'll need to set it on a timed drip line, before the heat of summer.
Growing berries here, is nothing like the, almost 10 years I spent in Oak Harbor, WA; many varieties of wild or naturalized Rubus species grew there, wherever you looked.
***Tucson, Thanks, for the memories ... I still remember the awesome berry plants I saw while living in Seattle for two years. I've never seen bushes as prolific as those were. I'll bet their plants were 8' feet tall!
Being from Oklahoma, I picked berries like crazy that first summer. It seemed like the natives had very little interest in picking berries, which seemed so strange to me, but after the second summer in that environment I began to understand why. There were berries everywhere we looked, raspberries of every color, red, black, yellow, and wild blackberries galore!
They had native plums there that were as bag as any I've ever seen in the grocery stores. They had so many plums falling from their overhanging branches that portions of the highway were slicked over with squished plums, so many plums the birds wouldn't even eat them. That whole area was amazing to me that way. Kind of like the Garden of Eden in a way, but no one there had a decent tomato and okra was unheard of.