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Post by nhmountains on Jul 23, 2017 15:54:56 GMT -6
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Post by sd51555 on Jul 23, 2017 16:00:30 GMT -6
Wow! I'd start eating cold breakfast again if I had a patch like that!
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Post by nhmountains on Jul 23, 2017 16:00:52 GMT -6
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Post by nhmountains on Jul 23, 2017 16:03:07 GMT -6
Wow! I'd start eating cold breakfast again if I had a patch like that! The kicker is they were going to spray and mow them when they bought the house. I told them not to but to keep tge edges well mowed. There weren't many last year due to tge drought but I bet they've got 100+ quarts sitting there for this year if they pick them.
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Post by nhmountains on Aug 5, 2017 3:30:43 GMT -6
The blackberries at my niece's house are just starting to ripen. There will be 100!quarts of berries there this year.
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Post by Reagan on Aug 5, 2017 6:35:57 GMT -6
My peach supplier has a big batch of blackberries. They don't have thorns and produce a lot.
Can I propagate these from cuttings? If yes, do I just cut young growth next spring and put in a pot?
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Post by smsmith on Aug 5, 2017 7:29:05 GMT -6
Man, I'd be picking and freezing those as fast as I could.
Reagan - if you mean cuttings like a hybrid poplar or willow cutting...that'd be pretty tough. You can take root cuttings. You can also use layering, that's probably the most successful method.
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Post by Reagan on Aug 5, 2017 8:20:46 GMT -6
I froze a bunch that he gave me when I got the peaches.
His family harvests most of them each year. I want to create my own patch from his.
I'll research layering. I'm ignorant on growing anything other than my garden.
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Post by smsmith on Aug 5, 2017 10:41:13 GMT -6
I froze a bunch that he gave me when I got the peaches. His family harvests most of them each year. I want to create my own patch from his. I'll research layering. I'm ignorant on growing anything other than my garden. An easy way to get some brambles (assuming the guy will let you) would be to take some pots (flower pots, landscape pots, roottrappers, whatever) full of soil over to his place. Pin an existing bramble into your container of soil using a rock, landscape cloth pins, a piece of bent wire...whatever. Water the pot/bramble end and keep the soil moist. That bramble will send down roots into the soil and send up a new vertical shoot...once it does, cut it off from the parent bramble and take it your place.
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Post by nhmountains on Aug 6, 2017 14:56:11 GMT -6
My niece's picked 2 gallons of blackberries this morning. I picked a quart this afternoon and brought home to our freezer. They're just beginning to ripen. They'll be able to pick several gallons and still let the birds have their share.
I'd ask the guy if he'd let you dig up some. Chances are his will root underground and pop up where he doesn't want them. It could be 15-20' away from the patch.
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