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[dwoodard@becon.org]

> I had thought Don Yellman had called Baba Berry a raspberry?
> Despite praise for the Baba Berry, I still find few sources for it.
> One source shows of picture of it looks like a blackberry:
> http://www.tytyga.com/Baba-Blackberry-Plants-p/baba-blackberry-plants.htm
> but this article from the LA Times has a picture of Baba that is red:
> http://articles.latimes.com/2011/apr/22/food/la-fo-marketwatch-sherman-oaks-
> temple20110422
>
> I have always been reluctant to bring in brambles.
> I grew up with some raspberries red and yellow that yielded OK for some
> years but then gradually got viruses and after production declined it took
> many years to get rid of the plants that kept persisting and even
> spreading.  But now there's an area at the corner of the backyard that has
> two black walnuts getting pretty large and one of the few plants that
> naturally associate with black walnuts is brambles.  So if I want
> production of anything else out of the space, it means brambles.   I'm
> hoping that 10 years from now or whenever the brambles become
> unproductive,
> I'll find some way to smother the brambles.
>
> A blackberry I thought of bringing in is Kiowa because of large berry
> size,
> vigor.  Can someone comment on Baba vs. Kiowa?  And can anyone cite a
> reasonably-priced source for either that is recently out of tissue
> culture?
>
>
> As for where-to-buy, I found a page Arkansas [who bred most the current
> blackberries] has listing authorized sellers of its patented varieties:
> http://www.aragriculture.org/horticulture/fruits_nuts/blackberries/licensedp
> rop.htm   Thanks  Charlie in Massachusetts
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