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Mike,
The bees pollinate the blossoms in the Spring then they leave. They
don't hang around until the berries are
ripe.
I went out this morning and picked a couple of handfulls to put over
my cold cereal, they will probably be gone
in a couple of weeks as the big juicy ones are nearly gone now and it's
starting to cool off so the little ones had
better grow fast or they won't be worth much until next summer.
I have some in my freezer but they just aren't the same as freshly
picked ones. Mmmm, they sure are good over
ice cream in the middle of the winter though.
Bob Saville
Mike Dean wrote:
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>
> Oh, well. There ya go. See, there are two things in this world I
absolutely cannot stand.
> And that would be bees. Experiment canceled. :-)
>
> Mike "Did I hear buzzing" Dean
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Hi Mike,
> Because they grow wild up here and I have them all over the place I
never thought of it, but I don't know
> why that wouldn't work if the pot was big enough as they have quite a
large root structure. You'd want to keep
> the branches from touching the ground as they will 'take root' just
about anwhere they touch along the ground.
> As for the size.....shall we start with about one acre? ;-) I
think if you'd start one in a large pot
> the branches would probably go out about 4 or 5 feet in all directions
in one year. There would, of course,
> need to be some bees in the area to polinate the blossoms when they come
out with their pretty little white
> flowers in order to bare fruit.
> That might be an interesting experiment.
>
> Bob Saville
>
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