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To: Salamander

Don’t have kudzu here in Northern California but I guess blackberry must take its place here.
Planted some cuttings from the wild stock down by one of my springs a few years ago and I am kicking myself everyday now because of it. Stuff grows like a triffid (old horror movie reference).
Makes for good eats in the late summer but also draws every bear for miles around. They get their share, I get mine, and as long as they keep running from the dogs all is well with the world.


61 posted on 05/01/2015 12:14:43 AM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: 5th MEB

Triffids.
LOL!

I am letting honeysuckle grow around my fence, on purpose, because it’s a nice privacy screen.

The posts are good so no, it’s not gonna tear it down.

*But*, if the goats get into the yard, they go through it like weed whackers.

One time, they got into the front yard and ate the middle out of my dog’s memorial Arbor Vitae.

It never recovered.

It looks kind like a shrubby Mae West, now.

I let blackberry “go native” in the corner of the backyard for the birds.

I’ve been waging war on it ever since, as it also drew chipmunks and mice, which carry ticks.

I do a lot of well-intentioned but wonderfully stupid things.

:)


64 posted on 05/01/2015 12:34:47 AM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.)
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