Tell Me All About Raspberries!

[Jared77]

What variety Thistle?

 

[thistlebloom]

What variety Thistle?

I wish I knew. An old gentleman dug them out of his garden for me years ago. Whatever they are they're tasty and productive.

 

[Nyboy]

I wish I knew. An old gentleman dug them out of his garden for me years ago. Whatever they are they're tasty and productive.

Those are the best my father got his fig tree that way. It is a super fig makes in though a NY winter with no protection.

 

[Nyboy]

Bay i hope your planing on some mulberry trees. They are often overlooked as weed trees, but planted in the right place ( where berries can't make a mess) are great trees. tasty berries and leaves good livestock food.

 

[baymule]

@Nyboy, our DD and DSIL have a spreading white mulberry in their front yard and have a seedling about 6' tall they are saving for me! I like it that the white mulberry doesn't leave purple bird poop splats everywhere!

 

[Nyboy]

If you get rabbits, leaves make great food. not sure about horses you would have to check.

 

[baymule]

If you get rabbits, leaves make great food. not sure about horses you would have to check.

My horses think they are beavers. I don't know how many trees they stripped the bark off of and killed. They gathered around their intended victim, gnawed around the bottom, got their teeth chomped onto a piece and would flip their heads to tear the bark off in strips. They could strip the bark off pretty far up the tree. I even chewed some of the bark myself to see what was so darn good about it. BLECH! I spit it out. They did this mainly in the fall when the sap was moving from the leaves and branches down the trunk into the roots for the winter.

NOOOOOOOO........ my mulberry tree (and ALL fruit trees) will be planted out of the reach of the marauding 1200 pound dreaded buck toothed bark eating beavers!

 

[Smart Red]

Sad, but funny.

 

[bobm]

Bay... don't forget that horses , donkeys, and mules are also artists... in addition to fashioning totem poles out of trees, they create pasture art out of wooden fences, barn sides, chicken coops, as well as wood siding of you house.

 

[Smart Red]

So true!