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Default Got a favourite fruit?



"Jeßus" > wrote in message
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> On Mon, 22 Feb 2016 17:42:08 -0000, "Ophelia" >
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>>"Jeßus" > wrote in message
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>>> On Mon, 22 Feb 2016 09:02:35 -0000, "Ophelia" >
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>>>>"Jeßus" > wrote in message
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>>>>> On Mon, 22 Feb 2016 17:43:56 +1100, Bruce > wrote:
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>>>>>>On Mon, 22 Feb 2016 16:25:01 +1100, Jeßus > wrote:
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>>>>>>>On Sun, 21 Feb 2016 19:06:16 -0500, jmcquown >
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>>>>>>>>I'd have to say pineapple. How about you?
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>>>>>>>That's a tough call to pick just one. I guess I'll have to go with
>>>>>>>raspberries, always been a favourite and we've been eating tons of
>>>>>>>them for the past couple of months. They are tapering off now but the
>>>>>>>blackberries have been ripening in the past few weeks.
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>>>>>>I grew really nice raspberries in south tas. The type with slightly
>>>>>>furry skin if that makes sense. Then, one winter, it was so wet for so
>>>>>>long that the roots must have rotted and the plants all died.
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>>>>> That's a shame, maybe not the best spot to put them. My best friend
>>>>> has gone semi-commercial with raspberries so I don't bother growing
>>>>> them myself. I want to get some Loganberry vines this year and really
>>>>> need to get more serious about blueberries, which is also a big
>>>>> favourite of mine.
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>>>>I grow loganberries. They are popular in this house
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>>> My friend with the raspberries has a couple of vines and I'm now a fan
>>> of loganberries!

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>>I am not too keen but Himself <tm> loves them. I never make them into
>>anything because he loves to pick them and eat them straight off the
>>briar)
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>>Will you grow some?

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> Yes I plan to get some this year, I too think they are best simply
> picked and eaten as-is. The wild blackberries are ready to pick now
> and I plan to pick enough to make a blackberry mead or melomel.


I grow blackberries too and I prefer them

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