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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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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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