I had some blackberry bushes in my yard a number of years ago. I didn't do anything to them because I wanted the blackberries.
They all died.
They all died.
I had some blackberry bushes in my yard a number of years ago. I didn't do anything to them because I wanted the blackberries.
They all died.
Am going through my seed boxes today and organizing. Moved from a desert climate to a good growing climate, so time to get organized for spring and lay out what I'll be growing. Have got the greenhouse already growing with lettuce, radish, spinach, rosemary, and mint and that is doing well. Town is a ways away just to go for salad stuff. Am also planning a larger greenhouse. Anyone on here have a rammed earth sided greenhouse?
So that is what is growing near my garden! I have wild blackberries about 15 feet away but didn't know these roots/vines/thorny hell things were blackberries! They don't come up anywhere near the garden, just the roots/vines. Well just dip me in a bucket of shiot and call me stinky! Learn something knew everyday! Thanks People!I have fought wild blackberries here in the city. Our realtor thought they were poison ivy, but I told here no, just wild blackberries. They are growing underneath my privet hedges out front but not all that bad really. From the reading I've done on them, most sources say to use both mechanical removal (digging up small younger shoots) and chemical application.
I can tell you from experience thus far, starving them from light does not kill them. The vines/stems will turn white from lack of light, but they will just keep on running out farther and farther, above or below ground, making new plants. So far I have reduced the quantity of vines out front by remaining watchful and persistent pulling/digging up of shoots as soon as they emerge from the dirt. A compounding problem for us is our house is pier-and-beam up off the ground 2', so the runners creep through the metal vents in the brick skirting and have gone under the house to our side yard! My tact so far is to just pull up by hand any new shoots that emerge into the side garden the minute I see one emerge. So far, that is working pretty well to keep them in check, though not totally eradicated. We can't (or perhaps I should say neither my husband nor I are WILLING to get in that crawl space) & deal with them there. So we'll just keep doing what we are doing.
My late brother had them real bad on his place in Tulalip, WA and used some sort of John Deere brush cutter to get the largest clumps of them under control, but again, he never totally eliminated them. They were kept in check enough you could at least walk the back yard in your bare feet.
So that is what is growing near my garden! I have wild blackberries about 15 feet away but didn't know these roots/vines/thorny hell things were blackberries! They don't come up anywhere near the garden, just the roots/vines. Well just dip me in a bucket of shiot and call me stinky! Learn something knew everyday! Thanks People!
They run along the ground but I have never seen any berries on them, just thorns! Maybe I need to look closer instead of trying to pull/dig them up.If they run along the ground instead of growing upright, they are most likely dewberries, which are closely related to blackberries, but are not actually blackberries. In this part of the country we call dewberry plants "brambles" and we call blackberry plants "briars."
Dewberries are usually juicier than wild blackberries and fruit earlier in the year, I really like them.
Mine are definitely not dewberries. Leaves are narrow and pointy. We have a fair amount of them along our rural property access lane and our yard fence there, too. They bloom and produce tiny fruit, but I haven't picked or tried cooking a pie with them yet. But they are sweet when ripe.
I think we may go to the cabin toward the end of the month so we can use my the telescope there (his Christmas present last year) to watch the 'Star of Bethlehem' (Jupiter & Saturn) event in the night sky. May just stay there through Christmas..............maybe even on through my birthday (New year's Eve). We only get a few TV channels there (no cable) and no internet either, so checking in here or staying abreast of national events will be just what is available on biased evening news out of Austin/Waco area. Hopefully, they will be reporting election battle outcomes correctly.
They are definitely Dewberries then! Thanks for the pics, helped clear it up!Brambles (Dewberries) will have thorns so thick the vine looks hairy. Some blackberries are trailing but the vine looks different with thorns more spread out. I believe in the UK they call blackberry thickets brambles. We call them briar patches.
Here is what a Dewberry vine looks like:
And this is a blackberry vine:
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