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any type of berry plant that i can make jellies from.

Janet, do you have dewberries? I can send lots of vines, although they are blooming now so you wouldn't get berries until next year. I also have agarita bushes. Not a berry, and the leaves are pointed and stick like American holly, but the tiny fruits make a unique jelly. I can also send my sister a request to send native blackberries from Louisiana. They will bloom and fruit later than dewberries, aren't quite as full flavored but make scrumptious jam and jellies, as well as cobblers. Let me know if you are interested.

aimee are dewberries the upright plants? if so I have them. lmk

No, they crawl all over the ground and any other plants nearby, having a definite viny characteristic. Blackberries are the ones with the thicker canes and growing more as a shrub. They produce later than dewberries.

How about red raspberries? "T" :)

I have red n black raspberries- the red ones come on 2ce a yr!

I have elderberries. I don't know when the best time to take cuttings would be... anyone else know?

Hey Janet, how about chokecherries? I have 2 that need a good home (they just don't do well here in the Bay Area) and I'd be happy to send them when I can dig again. (I tweaked my back with too much vigorous weeding, so I'm moving really s l o w for a while). Let me know if you'd like these guys. Thanks!

Chris - THGA

aimee, sledder, poppysue, notmartha and THGA you have mail.

Janet, please understand if I don't answer your email. I've having problems with receiving emails for some unknown reason. We recently changed internet service and my computer doesn't seem to like it. I'll get it eventually....(I hope) "T" :)

sledder, i would love some rasberries. what would you like in return. just answer here if you like.

Right now I have no clue. Let me do some checking tomorrow. Sorry for any inconvenience but right now I'm extremely frustrated with my email service.grrrr I'll get you some raspberry starts. No problemo!! "T" :)

Janet
I have thornless blackberrys tart fruit as big as your thumb.

troy you have mail

Janet, got your email, and can do! I will talk to my sister in La. and arrange for her to send you some starts. I will let you know when and how and what to expect. She will know the best way to move them. How many do you want? You can espalier these or train them on fences or other supports. I think they look especially neat espaliered, with the berries for accents when they ripen. I think it will need to be done immediately, as early spring is the time to move these bush types. I haven't seen the land for several years, so am not sure about the accessibility since logging, but I'm sure one of both of us have plenty she can get starts from. And your passifloras arrived, thank you so very much. Now about those beans, may I know more? You did a marvelous job of packaging the vines, by the way. They looked fresh and spry when I pulled them out. Planted them and am waiting to enjoy fruits. Thanks again.

i want to thamk you all for your generosity in getting these plants. thank you so much. janet

Janet, you have mail.

thank you all for the berries. i really have quite an assortment to work with.

Janet, just wanted to add that if you get the agarita bushes from Aimee, they DO make a heavenly jelly! Grandma Wall put them in a pan with an inch or so of water, just enough to get them boiling, then strain the juice and add 1 part sugar to 2 parts juice and the pectin. YUMMY!

And the best way to harvest them is, when they are VERY ripe (bright red and sweet), lay an old sheet or two under the bush all the way around and beat the bush with a stick so the berries fall on your sheets. I take a stick in each hand, hold one branch outwards by pushing on the base with one stick and beat it with the other so the berries fall out and on the sheet instead of in the crown of the bush. You'll have a few leaves so will have to "waller" the berries around in the sheet until the leaves gather at the top and edges. I've thought about going out there now to knock off the leaves dead from winter so there's not so many later (it's an evergreen bush, but over the course of the year, some leaves do die of natural causes ;-). All this isn't really that hard (easier than picking dewberries by hand!) and is SO worth it when you taste that jelly! Mmmmm-MMMM!

Janet,

Sorry to be so long ...I can now get to the grape vines you were needing. Please let me know if you are still wanting them.

HUGS!!
Shee

Janet - I also wanted to let you know I think the elderberry cuttings are gonna take. It's still a little soon to be sure but they look pretty good so far.

Noweedsz you have mail.

poppysue i sure hope so. i have never grown them and am l0ooking forward to doing so. janet