Wednesday WEEDS ......

[fourandsixpants]

with all the rainfall.....if you leave them to grow some have pretty flowers, some stink and some must GO!

I could make dandelion soup if I knew how.....but these blighters grow in cracks of brick paved area and are really hard to get roots out

[imastawka]

Blackberries are a weed all over Australia.

The climate seems to suit them and then they take over.

[sineaterdoodah]

wow...does anyone pick and eat them at all? i'm sorry if that's a stupid question...i just can't wrap my mind around them being a weed...

[imastawka]

Yep.  But with the wild blackberries - snakes like to live in them,  shudder

[lloydslights]

And from personal experience, wasps.

At different times of the year, we used to cross the creek for blackberries and mushrooms.

The paddocks are now covered in McMansions.

DEB 

[b3llag1na · Accepted solution]

When I was little ( maybe 7?) Dad took us blackberry picking up in the Snowy mountains- the thickets were huge!

He would throw a big sheet of cardboard up into the middle of it, then threw me on top of it so I could pick from the centre  We would pick bushel tins full, and mum would make jam, juice and cordial from them.

Now most of the wild stuff has been killed off - weed killer first, then some introduced diseases. Probably not a bad thing as they were really taking over.

[sineaterdoodah]

i keep forgetting that most of your country is actually a more temperate zone,so i can see ,when i DO think about it,how they could overrun areas. 

are there people who grow them as a domestic product,like strawberries?