Re: [gardeners] Blackberry vines
drusus@golden.net (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Mon, 19 Apr 1999 20:26:00 -0400
At 06:30 PM 19-04-99 EDT, you wrote:
>Well, Harry...I just may have to start now to finish painting them
>individually by the end of the next decade! LOL
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>I have to admit...I pick some of those blackberries during their fruit
>bearing days, but they are just awful to fight all of the time. The more I
>dig them, cut them and cuss them, the healthier they seem to grow!
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>Hubby has resorted to plowing them up and has made a little headway.
Every bit of cut root left in the ground will produce a new plant. That's
why he feels he hasn't made any headway -- just wait till next year!
Pulling them up is the only way and even that takes 2-3 years before they
*all* are gone, unless you wish to use the Round-up method.
Another
>pest we'd like to get rid of are the Beavers that are taking down all of the
>trees around our farm pond...any suggestions?
Not one, just much sympathy. We've been very dry here and lots of critters
are making their way into our yard. I finally drowned/flooded out the
batch of groundhogs under the porch...for the moment. I guess that
wouldn't work with beavers.
What part of Oklahoma are you in?
Lucinda
>Vicki Day-Cook
>Oklahoma
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