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   M.S. Bellows, Jr. (msbellows@c.im)'s status on Thursday, 13-Nov-2025 15:55:23 JST M.S. Bellows, Jr.

   Capitalism at its very worst (at least to gardeners in Oregon's Willamette Valley): #evil #gardening #EffLutherBurbank

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     AI6YR Ben (ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org)'s status on Thursday, 13-Nov-2025 15:55:21 JST AI6YR Ben

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     • :David Campey

     @msbellows @davidcampey They're invasive up there?!?!

     Steve's Place repeated this.
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     Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸 (realtegan@wandering.shop)'s status on Thursday, 13-Nov-2025 15:55:21 JST Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸

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     • :David Campey

     @ai6yr @msbellows @davidcampey
     Our first house had a back yard completely full of blackberry plants. It took us three years to manage to cut it all back, and during that time one blackberry plant managed to grow under the back door of the garage while another went up the gutter spout. The things grow so fast in the Seattle area it's almost impossible to stop them.

     The mounds of blackberries were so high we never realized we had a well in the back yard until we cut them back.

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     :David Campey (davidcampey@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 13-Nov-2025 15:55:22 JST :David Campey

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     @msbellows curious, why?

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     M.S. Bellows, Jr. (msbellows@c.im)'s status on Thursday, 13-Nov-2025 15:55:22 JST M.S. Bellows, Jr.

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     • :David Campey

     @davidcampey Because Himalayan blackberries are both prolific and invasive here. No one needs to buy one, and if they do, it will consume their garden and then their neighbor's garden and then gardens a mile away. (And Luther Burbank, who actually was a great horticulturalist, is who imported them to California, not realizing birds would spread them everywhere.) https://positivebloom.com/risks-of-growing-invasive-blackberries-you-shouldnt-ignore/