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Monday, March 12, 2012

The single Manchurian gooseberry

It's all that made it this year and even then, looks diminutive. I won't cast nasturtiums though - it's also the only, ever.
Next year, I'll expect more, or it'll be out with the loppers.

9 comments:

Shunda barunda said...

Loppers? I got a now 'tri blade' for my scrub cutter, have been turning black berry and gorse into sawdust all afternoon.
You should try one of those! ;)

Shunda barunda said...

new tri blade.

Now, must be the fumes.

robertguyton said...

The fumes sure are a selling point, Shunda, but I don't know...and by the by, blackberry sawdust?
Can't say I ever saw any of that. The trunks of your blackberry trees must be huge!

Shunda barunda said...

They are Robert!!

On the Coast one often hears the cry; "TIMBER" when a lofty Blackberry is cut down.

The thorns are like Tyrannosaurus teeth!!

robertguyton said...

I'd like to see the berries.

Shunda barunda said...

You should see the grubs that eat the berries!!

When people on the Coast say they are making black berry jam they really mean it, one black berry, one jar of jam!

robertguyton said...

Imagine biting into one and discovering you'd eaten half of one of those (grubs that is!)

robertguyton said...

And getting a seed stuck between your teeth must be hell.

Shunda barunda said...

I haven't even told you about those (normally) little tiny red spider mites yet.

Seen land crabs?