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enigma wrote: Johnny wrote in ups.com: So, those are grapes? Excellent! Can we eat them? of course, but i can't guarantee they'll be very good. depending on where you are, they would be different varieties. for example, i'm in New England, so wild grapes here are generally Concords, good for jelly. in NY they might be Concords or they might be fox grapes, which are tiny & sour (i like them better than Concords). down South, you get wild Muscat grapes. Check that. Muscadine grapes, sorry, muscat, with their honeysuckle flavor, are a vitis venifera. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitis_rotundifolia If I let the sapling go, it will grow into a tree? the tulip tree? yes, they are really a very pretty tree. i wish i had at least one. however, they can get really large, over 200', so make sure it has some room. Those are some type of berries. We picked them and ate them last year. My neighbor said they were raspberries. However, I went out again and noticed another plant that has different leaves but what looks like raspberries already in bloom (right term?) - see the updated web page. So now I'm not sure what we have. Lastly, I found another "plant" - guess I can't tell a weed from a plant - that I posted some pics of for ID. ok, the first berries *are* a wild type of raspberry. they have pink flowers, don't they? i did have a couple of them but we cut down a willow & i think it got too boggy for them. they're gone now anyway. they're as good as domestic raspberries & mine had berries rather late in the season, after the domestic ones were finished. berry B is a trailing variety of blackberry, i think. is it growing on those canes or on the vines? i can't tell from the photo. either way, they're pretty good if you can get them before the birds do. your weed D looks like what we call 'dewberries', another type of trailing blackberry. they're mostly annoying since they rarely have berries & the vines trip you. if you're lucky you'll find some black raspberries along your wooded area as well. I was mostly interested in ID'ing these plants to know what to eliminate. But I guess I should keep them all. Would it be beneficial to keep all these plants? The "fruit" plants all seem to be growing on the part of my property that gets the most sun - the rest is heavily forested - so I don't think they will be invasive. i keep a good stand of goldenrod. it's *not* a cause of hayfever (it's pollen is too heavy), but since it blooms at the same time as ragweed, which doesn't have showy flowers, it gets blamed. goldenrod is an important butterfly plant. lee -- Billy Bush and Pelosi Behind Bars http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KVTf...ef=patrick.net http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0aEo...eature=related |
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