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["Scott Weber and Muffy Barrett" <bluestem_farm@juno.com>]

Larry,My experience is many years ago, growing up in SE Penna.  They are 
tasty fresh, and tasteless cooked.  They are protected until a few days 
before ripe, so the birds can still get to them.  Is it more invasive than 
other wild berries?  Well, it isn't 'wild', it's feral.  Thirty years ago, it 
was only present as scattered plants in the woods.  Now, I believe there's 
more of it.  As climate and even the air changes, the behavior of plants 
changes, and it is certainly capable of moving into natural areas.  As 
Michael pointed out, birds love them.  And when birds love a berry like this, 
they move the seeds off to the next place they fly and deposit them in a 
convenient packet of manure.  If you plant them and want to keep them from 
invading other places, you had better net them (my bias is as the chief 
grower at a native plant nursery).  If you will be netting them, you may as 
well grow raspberries or something else that comes unprotected. They have 
been outlawed in Wisconsin, and personally I'm glad.  We have way too many 
thorny invasives to deal with as it is.   Draw your own conclusions.Muffy 
BarrettSouthern Wisconsin,where there is still snow, although less of it.

---------- Original Message ----------

On Mar 25, 2013, at 10:39 PM, Larry D. Cook wrote:

> Can anyone give me a first-hand account of the good/bad and U.  of this 
> plant.? Is it more invasive than other wild berries? Is the fruit actually 
> protected by some type of covering until ripe? 
> Thank you
> Larry D. Cook
> __________________

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