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abbadon420@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Wait…

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  • Poppa_Mo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Hahaha. You poor soul.

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• Gerudo@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It’s ALMOST worth it for fresh Blackberries that actually taste like blackberries. Not that trash in the grocery store.

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  • Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Do those get replicated or something? Crafted from foam, glue and paint?

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    • nickiwest@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      They get picked before they’re ripe, which means their flavor isn’t very good.

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• CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Wait, do blackberries also grow like weeds? I’ve never had much interest in gardening, but like the one plant I’d genuinely like to have, due to loving the fruit, would be blackberry

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  • absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Blackberry is evil.

    If it is not native to your country don’t plant it! Nothing eats it, grows extremely quickly and is very hard to get rid of.

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    • CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      If I ever did get one, I’d probably want to grow it indoors anyway, if that’s even possible. I’m more a city person and dont especially desire living somewhere with lawn space to maintain

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      • PapaStevesy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Sounds like you’d be interested in hydroponics.

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    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I mean tell that to all the birds eating my blackberries.

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      • absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        They are spreading seeds… That is the point of the berries.

        Nothing eats the plant.

        Even goats, which famously will eat blackberry, will eat anything else first.

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    • Nefara@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Rubus Ursinus (Pacific blackberry) and Allegheniensis are both native to the US. They’re still prickly but not evil, we have some in the backyard and the turkeys love them.

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      • absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I’m in NZ, of there is a naive blackberry, I’ve never heard of it. But we have a lot of blackberry in this country, it all sucks.

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  • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Blackberries grow in thick brambles with nasty thorns. It also has a hardy root system that allows it to regrow if you just cut it down. They also spread a few feet per year, so keeping them contained is a constant (and often painful) battle. If you go too long without paying attention to it, your entire yard will be a mess of thorny brambles that are nearly impossible to kill.

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    • rain_enjoyer@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      or you can put them on wires like grapes. idk if it’s unusual luck or skill issue, but my blackberries get stem rust every couple of years and they have to be cut down, they do grow back from roots but it keeps them from spreading too far

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  • prettybunnys@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    They grow as brambles and grow thick.

    It will take up any and all space it can.

    You won’t have to worry about kids playing in your yard, but they’ll be in it for berries

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  • protist@retrofed.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Make sure to try to find a thornless variety. Blackberry thorns will wreak havoc on your body and your clothes

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  • too_high_for_this@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The bramble types do. They’ll spread out a few feet every year and new plants will pop up everywhere. They’re hard to prune because of the nasty thorns, and as long as there’s roots, they’ll grow back.

    You can get a thornless variety that’s much easier to contain. I have one in my front yard that hasn’t spread at all.

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  • Speculater@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Extremely hardy, hard to kill, and spiders love them. But the fruit is delicious!

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  • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Well, good news!

    You’ll certainly have a lot of blackberries if you plant them.

    The bushes down near the river by me are about 20 feet thick and 8 feet high. The only other thing growing near them are nettles. It’s a genuinely fearsome plant.

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    yes, and they have sharp thorns, makes removal them very difficult. apparently is the himlayin blackberry is the notirous hard to kill weed.

    the himalyin blackberry is capable of regenerating from root fragments, even if you pull out the whole plant, a small part of it can regenerate.

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  • Nefara@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Are you in the US? There are a couple of native blackberries that don’t grow in brambles, but they are still quite pokey. This one basically grows as a couple of arching canes, usually on a tree line with a few others.

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    • CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Interesting, I didn’t realize there was more than one species, I had always figured that one blackberry population had been domesticated at some point and then bred into the different varieties out there

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  • Malyca@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    They are evil incarnate

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• MissJinx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Oh no, I planted Bamboo trees to avoid issues

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  • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Bamboo is native to more places than people think.

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    • potpotato@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      “A species of bamboo”

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• Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Personally I love en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convolvulus_arvensis, it:s flowers are so cute! The neighborhood is blooming!

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  • PapaStevesy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    We just bought a house last year and now are currently dealing with a garden full of bindweed and creeping bellflower. It’s fairly daunting but also kind of addicting trying to dig it all up.

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    • Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      addicted to the war game

      [Sabaton]

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• Signtist@bookwyr.me ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I planted a blackberry plant 2 years ago, and it’s grown maybe a couple inches since I planted it. I’m annoyed - I wanted blackberries! The raspberries took off, so that’s nice. I just planted them all in the yard so I can mow down any that grow where I won’t want them.

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• CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Bamboo looks way better than blackberry, I made sure to plant a ton of it in various parts of my yard.

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  • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The funny part is that clumping bamboo actually makes a great privacy hedge. It’s leafy, grows in thick bunches, very quickly hits like 10-20 feet tall (depending on the variety), and doesn’t rapidly spread. So it can be a great option for people looking for a perimeter hedge or property divider.

    The tricky part is that most bamboo isn’t clumping. Most is running bamboo, which rapidly spreads, doesn’t grow very tall, and will break past basically every barrier (like sidewalks and landscaping stonework) that most other plants would be stopped by. It’s also extremely difficult to kill, because it stores nutrients in the (extremely wide) root system. So even if you cut it down, it’ll just grow right back again somewhere else.

    And plenty of people have accidentally planted running bamboo, thinking it was clumping bamboo.

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• Nangijala@feddit.dk ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Demonic thing to say 😭

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• Mpatch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Throw some blueberry, strawberry plants in there too

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