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[tanis cuff <tanistanis@hotmail.com>]

That's good advice Jim.  But also the flower buds on most just aren't hardy.  
If they spend the winter in snow drifts, we get more berries the next year.

 

Cold windy weather today.  Hard to believe it was over 80 two weeks ago.

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> From: jimfruth
> To: nafex
> Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 09:22:25 -0500
> Subject: [NAFEX] Blackberry in SWI
>
> Tanis Cuff wrote, "sWI, plenty blackberry canes but not much fruit."
>
> Blackberries tend to overcrowd themselves whereupon they stop producing
> fruit. You need to do some thinning to get them to bear.
>
> Jim Fruth
> Brambleberry Fruit Farm
> 4002 Davis Street
> Pequot Lakes, MN 56472
> 1-218-831-7018 (My Cell)
>
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