Re: New Potential Weed
- To: m*@ucdavis.edu, j*@nemo.mech.eng.usyd.edu.au
- Subject: Re: New Potential Weed
- From: "* G* <s*@hotmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 19:36:30 PST
>I would have thought that Hawaii would be a bit warm to be optimum for
>blackberries. Here in NSW, they are a great pest in the highlands and
>tableland areas, but seem to be much less invasive down here on the
coast.
>I have feral blackberries in a couple of places in my garden, but they
>hardly increase at all and I get few berries. I always assumed they
needed
>cool winters (frosts) to do well.
>
>And even more so for raspberries, which only seem to go feral further
south
>in Victoria.
Don't I know it!!!!!!! Where I live (McCrae on Port Phillip Bay in
Victoria) we have significant blackberry problems on farming land, in
the national parks, on the foreshore and in the more urban areas. I have
tried digging them up and using 'brushed on' Roundup on fresh cuts (to
my indignation they put on new growth!). We have native raspberries
growing in the same places so spraying is out of the question. I just
don't know what to do except persisting and maybe eventually weakening
the plants to such an extent that they give up (one can hope anyway)
Susan George
McCrae, Victoria, Australia
>
>John.
>
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