Category: Other

The difference between blackberries

I did some blackberry pulling up top today, and figured out how to identify the different types (so I can leave the trailing native)

The native type has 3 leaves on each stem. The top leaf has two sticky outy (scientific language) lobes at the base.

Evergreen has 3 leaves as well, but the base leaves have the pokey lobes, and the top leaf is rounded. It also look more ruffly all around, the stem is reddish, and it has denser thorns on the stem.

Himalayan has 5 leaves. Easy peasy

Progress from the last week

I’ve been doing some basic things in the yard. I moved one Nova and one tomatillo into season starters, they seem to be doing ok, so are the squash. I put another patty pan and delicata on the slope, but the season starters won’t work there so I made a cover from a basket and plastic and I open it when i open the greenhouse every day.

Doom and Gloom

It’s definitely the end of the season. The raing has hardly let up. The green bean plants are falling apart, the tomatoes are terrible. The runner beans are holding in there- but not producing much.

My storage for photos on this site is full, so I gotta figure that out..