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Post by sandbar on Jan 21, 2010 22:14:05 GMT -5
Has anyone every grown Doyle's Thornless Blackberries? I'm wondering if they taste good. Their ad says they're the BEST! They wouldn't be stretching the truth would they?  |
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Post by mnjrutherford on Jan 22, 2010 7:04:36 GMT -5
I THINK (don't quote me here) that someone mentioned that they were not all that tasty. There was talk about it several months ago with discussion about what are more flavorful. I'm growing Arapaho and they are pretty darn tasty.
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Post by rockguy on Jan 22, 2010 7:54:27 GMT -5
I have thornless of some unknown variety, given to me years ago. They're heavy bearers and sweet. For some reason, some people don't know how to pick blackberries. Maybe they picked them twice as a kid and now they're an expert, lol. I have a time convincing some of my friends that black is not ripe, black and dull and falling off when you touch them, that's ripe! They pick anything that's black, even if you have to give it a heckuva tug to get it loose. The sweetest ones come off the vine with just a tickle. ;D
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Post by plantsnobin on Jan 22, 2010 9:19:30 GMT -5
The Doyle was developed just about an hours drive from here. I don't grow them myself, just what I have read is that they are not that good. They are ridiculously expensive it seems to me, and maybe it is telling that there aren't a lot of people here locally growing them. I think that if they were that great, everyone around their home area would be planting them, but that is only a guess.
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Post by mjc on Jan 22, 2010 10:27:16 GMT -5
Indestructible mint?
The stuff I've got should probably survive a nuclear war...this stuff will choke out blackberries...some of it is currently taking on a multiflora rose and seems to be winning. It was planted about 20 yrs ago in an old refrigerator that was half buried to use as a planter (or maybe it evolved in there and they just moved the frig out to the field to keep it from taking over the house?). It has spread over quite a large area and nothing can kill it. Repeated mowings...nope. Burning....even large bonfire type fires built on top of it...nope, it loves that and comes back even bigger the next year. RoundUp (I didn't, MIL did about 10 or so yrs ago)...thought that was punch or something. Cardboard and newspaper laid on top...it was found to be reading the comics and using the cardboard for shade. So, I've struck a truce with it...as long as it gives me enough to make my mint juleps, I'll let it live...if it doesn't I'm going nuclear...at least then, it will be a problem for the cockroaches, not me.
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Post by grunt on Jan 24, 2010 2:44:07 GMT -5
mjc: Feed it to death. If you can stand not being able to use the ground for a year, hit it with straight urea. It will burn it to the ground, and take the roots as well.
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Post by seedywen on Feb 19, 2010 17:37:36 GMT -5
There's a little unsolved mint mystery around here  When we bought this 'stump-farm' on the edge of the PWCoast wilderness, twenty years ago, there was mint in abundance. The main area where the mint grew, became a 50 x 50 foot fenced chicken run, where the chickens roamed when not 'free-ranging' around the farm. The next year(keep in mind this newly fenced area was initially a tangle of weed especially blackberries and dock) the (spearmint-type)mint... DISAPPEARED!!!!!!!! Actually I may have noticed, that the abundant crop looked sickly, browned etc. before the actually complete disappearance. Can spearmint have some kind of serious disease...that just given the right time and conditions, cause it to croak...completely. If you can give us clues, to this mint...Cold case...I'd be most appreciative. P.S. Have gradually introduced a few mints, apple, pineapple, chocolate to other areas of the farm...and all are doing well...even overtaking everything in their perimeter. However that original really tasty mint...spearmint? even transplanted from other local growers one pot at a time, has never really done much sharing the same property and conditions. |
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Post by canadamike on Feb 19, 2010 22:30:35 GMT -5
Yes, mint can have diseases, and even many, but they are simply rare, they are kind of resistant... yes, anybody can kill mint, but it usually happens to people that have been really bad bad bad  _________________ |
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Post by happyskunk on Feb 19, 2010 22:48:36 GMT -5
My best tasting mint got hammered by mint rust last year.  The other half dozen mints showed no signs of rust. |
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Post by seedywen on Feb 21, 2010 22:10:50 GMT -5
Mike,
are you telling me, I've been a really bad girl?
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Post by ottawagardener on Feb 23, 2010 13:06:34 GMT -5
Mint rhizomes for ANYone who has managed to kill mint and wants to try again. Anyone? Someone? Oh come on, I'm giving it away... I did kill ginger mint (I think) but it was in a half barrel that is never watered and is not really hardy here.
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Feb 23, 2010 13:18:03 GMT -5
Telsing, what varieties of Mint, pleez. It might help us decide to take some off your hands...(TY)
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Post by ottawagardener on Feb 23, 2010 15:10:23 GMT -5
Grandpa's spearmint. It comes via my family from England. I didn't think anyone would seriously take some of my hands. It spreads  , has nice flowers, attracts bees, seeds itself, tastes good. |
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Feb 23, 2010 16:24:08 GMT -5
Thanks, but I don't need Spearmint. Perhaps someone else might though, you never know til you ask.
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Post by mnjrutherford on Feb 23, 2010 20:56:30 GMT -5
I would love some, but would it be a hassle getting it here to the states? If you are coming to the swap, maybe you could bring some?
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The other half dozen mints showed no signs of rust.
, has nice flowers, attracts bees, seeds itself, tastes good.