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   Bob F to songbird   
   Re: Blackberry prune questin   
   02 Jun 21 11:24:05   
   
   From: bobnospam@gmail.com   
      
   On 6/2/2021 5:49 AM, songbird wrote:   
   > Boron Elgar wrote:   
   > ...   
   >> I need to try some other variety of thornless- problem is, I do not   
   >> recall what I have, nor did I by the time they started to fruit a year   
   >> or 3 after they went in.   
   >>   
   >> They fruit well enough, look great, but they do not have the deep,   
   >> wonderful flavor of the scratch-your-eyes-out old ones I spent so long   
   >> getting rid of.   
   >   
   >    there are a few things i'm willing to just buy at the store.   
   > raspberry seedless jam and blackberry seedless jam.  i like   
   > both of them but i don't want them very often and i sure don't   
   > want anything around here like a blackberry patch having seen   
   > what they are like out west.   
   >   
   >    acres and acres of blackberry brambles is enough to give me   
   > nightmares.   
   >   
      
   When I first moved to Seattle, I loved to go out and pick several   
   gallons each year. A couple pairs of jeans and an old leather coat, and   
   I was ready to go picking.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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