Although I would love to take credit for the health of my plants I can't. Mother Nature is truly the worlds best gardener. She provides the rain, and the sun. The 2 essentials for growing plants like this Blackberry vine.
The vine is along the back fence of our yard. Most of it is actually on our neighbors side but as it is a big bush/vine they can't reach it all...so by default I say that means it is part ours. I love looking at the vine (from a distance) and seeing all the different colors of the berries. Some are green, some are white. Red today black tomorrow. The more rip they get the easier it is to pick. Giving us a cup full of blackberries
for the kids to eat. Even the berries that fall off easily are different shades. Some are more red than black. Some leave juice on your fingers while others don't.
Each day the Grapes seem to get bigger and bigger. Soon they too will begin their change of color. After all the trauma from last year the vine is back and healthy as ever. See we had some major wind storms last year that knocked the arbor the vine grows on over. They grew grapes last year but they never ripened or got as big as they are now. But it seems Mother Nature understood that the vine just needed to stop working so hard to produce grapes last year and work on healing it's self.
After many attempts last year at trying to grow strawberries I finally have a small garden with some plants. And they are slowly producing berries this year. I chatted up a lot of folks over at
myfolia to find out what in the world I was doing wrong. Seems the advice worked cause they are thriving this year.
I will never (try my best not to) talk bad about Mother Nature again. She knows what she is doing and has for some time now.
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