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["Ernest Plutko" <ernestplutko@wiktel.com>]

I bought a few Himalayan blackberries on the Internet.  I'll keep
them wet.  I'll baby them to keep them alive.  I doubt if they will
be too rampant here.

---- Original Message ----
From: bwoodtx@verizon.net
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Himalayan blackberry
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:14:03 -0500

>I might add a note about Oregon's Himalaya blackberry. Back in the
>late 1950s we had a farm in Oregon with a big 'patch' of these
>berries. Relatives visited and were impressed with the "wild"
>blackberries. We shipped my uncle in central Texas a good start of
>these "wild" plants. We figured that they needed lots of water so he
>put them out in an area that was the overflow from a natural spring.
>It stayed moist to moderately wet all year. They thrived and he had
>lots of berries. They stayed in the area that received the spring
>water and did not grow out into other areas. As he aged, he decided
>that he did not want to pick them any more and diverted the overflow
>water away. They all died within a year or two.
>
>Regards,
>Richard Ashton
>Oak Creek Orchard
>www.oakcreekorchard.com
>bwoodtx@verizon.net
>
>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: Lon J. Rombough 
>  To: North American Fruit Explorers 
>  Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 3:58 PM
>  Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Himalayan blackberry
>
>
>  Just cutting Himalaya blackberries stimulates them. As the mounds
>get old, the old dead canes shade the crowns and fewer new canes come
>out. Cut off the canes without doing anything to the crown and it
>will shoot up big, thick new canes larger than the ones removed. I've
>dug out crowns that were such large masses of wood they were big
>enough to saw up like wood.
>  -Lon Rombough
>  Grapes, writing, consulting, my book, The Grape Grower, at
>http://www.bunchgrapes.com Winner of the Garden Writers Association
>"Best Talent in Writing" award for 2003. 
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>
>  On Apr 24, 2008, at 1:37 PM, Donna &/or Kieran wrote:
>
>  My son made a tool from a circular sawblade, cut a notch in it and
>added a 
>  handle to be fastened onto a long pole. He can reach it in under
>the vines 
>  to cut them off at the base. He sent us one, but our native
>blackberries in 
>  TN aren't as hard to deal with. Donna 
>
>
>
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