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Fucking mint, never get rid of it.
However, thinking about blackberries, the only solution is fire.
I don't know which one wins, as long as they win far away from me...
I don't think there was ever a version of Mint that would run on a Blackberry.
You want FEWER blackberries?
The heck is wrong with you?
Himalayan blackberries are a huge issue here in the PNW. They are imported and invasive. Also delicious! But they annihilate native plants.
Just outside of Portland, I got to take a field trip in my senior year eco-science class to go cut down blackberry bushes. They gave us machetes!
TIL about a PNW problem!
A few months ago I went to Portland for the first time and I was so happy to find a huge patch of wild blackberries just outside my hotel. They were delicious! I had no idea they were an invasive and bothersome problem!
I’ve lived in NJ and SC, and in both places it is kind of rare and special to find wild blackberries.
There are also native blackberries! But most of what you see in the valleys are the Himalayan variety.
The native blackberries do not form a hedge or grow on top of things. They're more of a ground cover. The berries are smaller, and in my opinion, tastier. They have much smaller stems as well.
Yeah we went and spent a week up in the Seattle area couple years ago camping and the campsite we were at had blackberries all over it. We're from an area that these things don't grow and so my kids were super excited and spent the entire camping trip picking blackberries and eating them.
I think they want fewer brambles, because blackberries are neither the most-voluminous nor the most-annoying part of the bush.
Always plant your mint in a pot. Preferably a suspended one.