➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[R2elk]

Also, I planted some kind of fruit bush last year. Well, actually I planted a few different kinds but none of the others did anything. I think this is a blackberry bush.
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I was supposed to trim back the branches before the first freeze or something but that didn’t happen. I think the plant boxes say that it will take 2 or 3 yrs before it bears any fruit? So probably not this year? I’m looking forward to it tho. We bought a boysenberry plant that I need to get in the ground. I can’t say that I’ve ever had one before. It says sweeter than a blackberry and no or less seeds, I forget which. I liked the sound of it. We’ll see what happens.

You have blossoms. Blossoms = fruit.
Boysenberries are just another type of blackberry.

 

[R2elk]

Wasn’t there a brief conversation or at least a mention in here at one time about female Welsummers can get spurs? I’m sitting outside with my chickens enjoying the breeze and I noticed that my Hazel has little nubbies on both of her legs. Those are spurs right?
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All of my Welsummer hens had spurs.

 

[CrazyCrttr75]

You have blossoms. Blossoms = fruit.
Boysenberries are just another type of blackberry.

SHWEEEEEEEEET!!! It has a bunch of blossoms all over it.

 

[RUNuts]

Blackberries. These aren't sweet or large. But they are thorny and hard to kill.

 

[R2elk]

Blackberries. These aren't sweet or large. But they are thorny and hard to kill.
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They are really easy to kill here. They don't like my water.

Don't get me wrong, I would never intentionally kill a blackberry plant.

 

[FortCluck]

Blackberries. These aren't sweet or large. But they are thorny and hard to kill.
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We have those and I got a thorn in my lip getting my turkey poult that escaped.

 

[BantyChooks]

They are really easy to kill here. They don't like my water.

Don't get me wrong, I would never intentionally kill a blackberry plant.

Send your water over here. I can't get rid of those blasted things.

 

[R2elk]

Send your water over here. I can't get rid of those blasted things.

Where is the middle finger emoji when you need it? I will not be party to the intentional murder of a wonderful fruit plant. This water will kill a lot more things than you want it to kill. It will absolutely destroy blueberry plants.

 

[BantyChooks]

Where is the middle finger emoji when you need it? I will not be party to the intentional murder of a wonderful fruit plant. This water will kill a lot more things than you want it to kill. It will absolutely destroy blueberry plants.

Wonderful fruit plants, my butt. I can't move a mere foot into the woods during the summer without getting ripped to shreds by them. They encroach on what little lawn I have year by year, fought back only by goats and long hours with pruners. I collect buckets and buckets of blackberries yearly and the vast majority of the fruit still rots on the ground.

Noted. I will be sure to avoid the places where the wild blueberries grow.

 

[CrazyCrttr75]

Blackberries. These aren't sweet or large. But they are thorny and hard to kill.
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Mine is a thornless. We got the Boysenberry planted today. It is thornless as well. I hope it does as well as the blackberry is doing. We watered it with our ducks old pool water.