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11-02-2005, 03:10 PM

enigma wrote:
wrote in
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Is this hard? How do they grow? Been thinking of building
some along a fence I need to build in the front yard. Can I
mulch with plastic or do they have runners? Do they flower?
Are they pretty? DO they need alot of water?

are you completely clue free? can you not read? (i thought
shy people read a lot...)
anyway, blackberries are weeds. they are easy to grow.
anything that bears fruit has flowers (skipped biology, did
you?). they need a lot of sun, so if it's sunny along your
fence, & the soil is decent, they will do ok. they aren't
particularly attractive & you will need to prune out old canes
every year & tie up the current growing canes.
how much you need to water them depends on what your soil is
like & how much rain you get. if it's really dry, you get
crappy dried out berries.
given a choice, i'd grow raspberries over blackberries any
day.
lee wondering how one builds blackberries

Thanks for the response but not for the smart tone.