"Ray Drouillard" wrote in message ...
"Claire Petersky" wrote:

You must live in an area where they are not a noxious
weed. If I want to make jam, I can go to any vacant
lot, park, or verge and pick. But I must be ever-vigilent
to keep them out of my yard -- a few weeks of neglect,
and I've got vines sprouting once again from the edge of
the fence.

Sort of like multiflora roses, eh? I have heard nasty things about
them, but they don't seem to be a problem here. I guess competition in
the plant world is so stiff here that none of the 'noxious weeds' that I
hear about can really get a good toehold (roothold?). We have lots of
the plants that are called 'noxious weeds' elsewhere, but they seem to
find their niche and stay put around here.


Hmmm... the thorny blackberries can be troublesome but they like sun
and seem to mostly propagate through the root system so this limits
their spread to adjacent sunny areas.