They're here! And all seem healthy--they went right to their water (electrolytes) and food. After some drama, I drove to a town half an hour away; otherwise they wouldn't have come until today. They're so darn cute!
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Gawd, yes! Nasty. It does seem to lead to clean seeds, at least. So many ways to do it. My lemon boys are very productive. And I only got them because I was in full-on garden frenzy mode; didn't start them from seed. They're tasty, will be saving seed, I think. Also, my white eggplant is quite prolific--I'm getting five and six eggplants from each (not very big) plant. Impressed over here.
I'm jealous!! I planted 2 eggplants and they look terrible!! What's your secret??
I also planted a lemon boy tomato plant this year on impulse. Haven't gotten any produce from it yet, but it's growing.
We have wild black raspberry as well, but only a few plants. We moved here in August, so I had no idea what kind of plants were growing. The black raspberry is mixed in with a blackberry patch, and it is completely overgrown. We are debating just mowing it down and trying to manage the plants as they come back up. We tried thinning it but it literally has canes three feet deep and in a big dip in the ground. To give you an idea, we didn't even know there was a dip in that area because the blackberries covered it.Got over a quart of black rasperries off of my wild raspberry canes today!
My sister gave the canes to me from her back yard a bit under two years ago. They had been in deep shade, under several trees in forest-like conditions, and she just chopped them back each year because they were just thorny plants to her and she disliked them. Asked me if I wanted to dig them up cause she knew they were berry canes, so they came to live at our house.
Now they have self propagated to be in a patch about 8'x3'. Last year I didn't get more than a few before the birds ate them all but this year I netted most of them up and got most of them! This is only the first set that ripened, as well!
Carried some across the street to my sister who didn't want those nasty thorny plants in her back yard and she spoke very highly about how tasty they are.We ate the whole bowl together with her kid.
But that's OK, cause I have another whole bowl all to myself and my household.<3