"Claire Petersky" wrote in message
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"Ray Drouillard" wrote in message
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"Claire Petersky" wrote in message
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This seems to mostly be robins eating the blackberries.

You deliberately grow blackberries?

What's wrong with growing blackberries? They make fine jam.

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.


Ray