Re: WILD BLACK RASPBERRIES

ciao_bella · ‎03-13-2010

UGH! I have wild blackberry plants/vines growing between the slats of my Trex Deck in the rear of my house. They are very hard to control since you can't get under the deck to pull them out. Every year I have to resort to using chemical sprays to get rid of them, but it seems like it's only for that season. They come back every year.

For me they're a royal pain and a huge annoyance.

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cheriere · ‎12-01-2023

@Icegoddess wrote:
@cheriere wrote:
@goldensrbest wrote:
I remember people picking them,when i was a kid,yes they are so sweet,my grandma use to make a cobbler, was my favorite,but people would get a rash ,sometimes from what they called chiggers.
Lol, I know about chiggers all too well! I've started spraying myself with bug and tick spray after I had to have help pulling a tick from my belly a few weeks ago. I hadn't had one dug in like this since I was a kid. You can't imagine how embarrassing it was to ask my dad to help pull a tick from my side stomach.😂
@cheriere Maybe TMI, but earlier this year I squeezed one out of my back. I actually at first thought it was a large blackhead since it was in an area where I had one the doctor removed for me. DH didn't know if it was a blackhead or something else. Imagine my embarressment about going to the doctor for THAT. Anyways, after I squeezed the blackhead out, I looked at it (don't we all?) and realized it had legs. It was tiny, much smaller than the comon dog tick I usually find crawling around on me. That sorta worried me since the tiny ones, which are deer ticks, are the ones that carry lyme diseas. So, I saved it in alcohol just in case. I never developed that rash though, thank goodness.

Lol, definitely not tmi for me! I am that person!

That's kinda the way my belly is with a lot of dark moles. I honestly thought that's what this tuck was at first, until it moved a little bit whenever I scratched it. The place it was in, I couldn't get it out myself with tweezers. In fact, between dad and myself, it didn't come out clean at all. It was torn into pieces. I've been nervous that the head never was completely out.

Just like yours, it was a tiny little deer tick. However, it was big enough I knew it must've been there for at least a few days, maybe longer. I did have a big red circle around the area about a week free it was removed. So, I'm hoping for the best.

I read somewhere on the internet that if a tick bites a person, it usually just falls off after three or four days...BALONY!!!

I have those kind of blackheads too. I really need to get better reading glasses lol. For the longest time, I tried to get a wild eyebrow growing a tad under the rest. Finally, I borrowed mom's glasses and extra large magnification mirror. I barely touched the sides and out came a milk chocolate colored solid plug over an inch long. There's still a little bump in the area, but nothing else like that would come out. There's no telling how many of these "moles" on my body are in fact these blackheads! I'm ashamed to be walking around like this.😳

cheriere · ‎12-01-2023

@Icegoddess wrote:
@cheriere I'm not a huge fan of raspberries. I think it's because they get soft and mushy so quickly and I don't like mushy fruit.

I have a blackberry plant. It's not much, and it actually moved itself to a different spot. Must've worked for it since this year it had more flowers on it than I've ever seen. It's got berries on it right now, but not ripe yet. Guess how many I'll get.......how about none to less than a handful. The wildlife will surely take care of that.

That's a BEAUTIFUL blackberry plant! You should have berries every place a flower has bloomed too!

I've been saving my progression of blackberries until I can get a shot where they're fully ripe. I've been watching it since March.

Your flowers look to be much more alive than mine are right now, so yours will probably come in a little later than mine. The flowers on here have already started to turn to berries.

cheriere · ‎12-01-2023

@Carmie wrote:
We had a row of wild black raspberries along the bank of our yard when I was a kid.

I used to snack on them and have cuts all along my arms and hands from picking them. They were so good.

What good memories you brought back. I haven't had any in years.

Aww, I'm glad they brought back good memories.😊❤️

You're sure right about the thorns too. I've gotten spoiled to these big hybrids that really don't have any thorns at all. I do think the black ones are a bit sweeter too and that's always a good thing!😃

cheriere · ‎12-01-2023

@ciao_bella wrote:
UGH! I have wild blackberry plants/vines growing between the slats of my Trex Deck in the rear of my house. They are very hard to control since you can't get under the deck to pull them out. Every year I have to resort to using chemical sprays to get rid of them, but it seems like it's only for that season. They come back every year.

For me they're a royal pain and a huge annoyance.

I'm sorry yours are coming up in such a bad place. I've had that problem with plants before myself. It seems like when you want rid of something, it's impossible to kill!

We're gonna end up moving these vines while they're still small enough to handle. I don't want them mixed in with my regular raspberries. I still want to keep the black ones, but they need a place if their own. I can already see they spread like wildfire.😃❤️

bmorechick · ‎03-11-2010

@cheriere Wherever you live, you sure do have a beautiful outdoor variety of wild flowers and fruits. Lucky you. I grew up in the city so the only thing wild were the streets🙃. When I met my husband his family lived in another area in the state. Really rural. I remember seeing blackberries growing along a ditchbank and they would pick them. They were so sour though. The only fruits I saw "wild" were the variety the street vendor had for sale. He would come around our hood with his horse drawn cart saying, "strawberries, blueberries, waterMELON." And my mom would be so thrilled to get farm fresh!

cheriere · ‎12-01-2023

@bmorechick wrote:
@cheriere Wherever you live, you sure do have a beautiful outdoor variety of wild flowers and fruits. Lucky you. I grew up in the city so the only thing wild were the streets🙃. When I met my husband his family lived in another area in the state. Really rural. I remember seeing blackberries growing along a ditchbank and they would pick them. They were so sour though. The only fruits I saw "wild" were the variety the street vendor had for sale. He would come around our hood with his horse drawn cart saying, "strawberries, blueberries, waterMELON." And my mom would be so thrilled to get farm fresh!

Thank you so much.😃❤️

It really makes me happy to know you enjoy my garden posts. I live in a very rural part of southeastern KY...which, let's face it, all of KY is pretty much rural lol.

We had gardens as long as I can remember. So did both sets of my grandparents. They grew them out of necessity. Every little bit that you didn't have to buy helped.

I can even remember seeing my grandparents on my dads side grow sugar cane and make molasses the old fashioned way. They had a mule that went in a circle turning a grinding machine as he fed the sugar cane through.

The juice that comes out is green. It's then taken to a big metal contraption of individual rows where a large fire underneath slowly cooks and thickens it. As it thickens, it turns black. Then, it flows through a plugged valve into large jugs.

We still have pictures of doing this every summer. Sometimes, I was lucky enough to get to ride the mule as she went round the circle.😃

My dad is who instilled my love of gardening. He does it just because he "can", he says. He likes to try and see if different things will grow. But, he loves it too. ❤️