Blackberries
Posted by: Volcano
20th Feb 2012 11:48am
I love blackberries, and often get annoyed when I remember they are listed as a weed. How can something which is such a noxious weed and produces fruit so easily be so expensive to buy in the shops? Do you think we should make more of this fruit? If it is such a successful plant shouldn't we be selling more of them? I know they can get out of hand, but ... what is your opinion?
faerydoc
- 20th Mar 2012 09:51am
I love blackberries and agree they tend to be very expensive. However, we recently discovered that our backyard had been taken over by blackberry plants, and we have never ever planted berries of any kind - they obviously have migrated into our backyard from someone else's bush (or else from the fields that aren't too far from our house). They are a terrible nuisance to get rid of (yes, I love blackberries, but I can't have the entire garden taken over by them). And that's the problem - they easily seed into other areas and other people's properties, and become a major nuisance and kill off native plants. Perhaps that is why they are expensive to buy - because those farms that produce them have to put a bit of effort into containing them (plus they are a bugger to pick!).
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