"paghat" wrote in message
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When we bought this house six years ago it had mainly blackberries in the
backyard. I dug up the enormous roots with great effort. The blackberries
came back the next year & I dug them up again. The year after that only
one blackberry briar reappeared. Since then, nothing but an occasional
seedling that i pull out before it gets a real root on it.

*sigh*
i wish we could do that... our yard is bordered by a protected native
growth area. it's filled with blackberries. they try to spread into our
yard constantly, but i can't legally pull up the roots.

they do make good jam, though.

-kelly