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We got hold of some lovely cheap gin this year and wanted to make sloe
gin. However, we live in the London area and they seem to be over
here, as though we did find some blackthorn there was the sum total of
three berries on it.

We have said berries, but I have two questions for all you lovely
people:

1. Are the sloes really over for the season now or were we just
unlucky in your opinion and should persevere?
2. Would planting the three we've found be inviting disaster, I have
read that blackthorn is very pervasive and hard to control, if that's
the case can it be grown in a pot and still produce sloes?

Many thanks in advance for any responses from yet another clueless
newbie... I do think I can get to like this gardening thing!

"The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything -- and it
works."

- William Strong

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