Nope! Not gonna give you any details. This isn't THAT kind of forum..... though I do remember in the beginning being shown someone's jugs... and there have been naked ladies mentioned a few times, though I've yet to see any... Just what kind of details are you wanting? I'm single, 42, and male. I know some lady-friends who like to spend time with me, doing various activities. (grin) And yes, Wendy, I've been spending a lot of time over on the Round Robins! (grin) Those are way cool to participate in, and a lot of fun to host! Trying to get all you ladies to sit on my lap can be time consuming! hohoho As for my lawn, it's now a lovely shade of straw brown, having gasped its last breath this past week. My neighbor with the "oh so proper" English garden doesn't even look over here any more, but that's okay. I understand. She's been a bit busy attempting to eradicate the spearmint which has shown up in her yard this year. And I simply have NO idea where that could've come from! (attempting to look innocent here, is it working?) It's just happenstance, truly, that I happen to have spearmint in my yard. There's just no way the birds or wind could've carried some seed across the yard and into her very formal garden. No way at all! And, did any of you know that mint can grow through pavement? Not only does it continue to spread in my garden, but has begun to burst through my paved driveway! Cool, eh? Don't you just love invasive plants? I DO!!! Tomorrow I'm going out to my parents' house and making a tipsy pot planter for my mother. And, while out there, my dad and I are going to look for a pine tree and a stump for me to bring home. I want to plant the pine tree in my yard and do some minimalistic bonsai with it, and I'd like to turn the stump on its side and use it as a planter/plantstand. Then, of course, I need to plant some corn and see how that does. The days are still a little cool around here, but one of the guys at the office is also a farmer, and he suggested I plant some trial rows this week to see how they do. Fresh sweet corn, just pulled off the stalk. Now, doesn't that just make your mouth water? And that, my dears, is it for now. I've just noticed the time, and need to be getting ready for a date. And no, there won't be any details about THAT either!!! HEHEHE HAHAHA HOHOHO HUHUHUHUHUHUUUUUUUUUUU

Anyone near the Beaumont area to Galveston area growing blackberries. adc1947 looked at Natchez but worried about the chill requirements, but they are on my list to try. Ordered some Kiowa, boysen, and Tayberries to try, have 2 Ouachita growing, but was thinking to plant 8 to 10 plants. Anyone having any luck growing in the blackjack or black clay gumbo in this area. Have them in18 and 21 diameter raised round containers holding about 15 inches of soil. Clay down here is horrible.

You could try Hazelwood Farm - Creamery Road, back of Penguin/Suplhur Creek way. They would be in the 64 phone area. Alternatively try Robin Dornhof who has the raspberry farm at Christmas Hills and might sell off canes. The other place that you might try later in the year would be Bunnings in Lonnie. We dug all ours out - sodding things were taking over and the birds got the lot! We have bought from Hazelwood for years and they have fantastic fruit trees and canes. Nice drive out there too. I'll track some down for you from a few growers around here if I can.

Rifis, Are your Raspberry Cupcakes own root or grafted? The thick section just below where the canes emerge doesn't look normal to me...to wide in diameter, but what do I know? They could be tissue cultured, which may be the reason for such a, " big belly.". It would stand to reason if they were tissue cultured seeing Raspberry Cupcake was just introduced in the USA in 2023. The rush to get abundant marketable stock is shortened by tissue culturing. I ask because I just purchased only one Raspberry Cupcake bare root from Home Depot which rose is supposed to come at week's end. If mine is grafted, unless upon multiflora, it will very likely sulk like every other non-multiflora root stock rose I have grown. Taking an eternity regarding putting on size, but bloom a lot it will. Nevertheless, it will not gain much size from year to year....never reaching its mature size listed in the literature in a reasonable amount of time. Our Raspberry Cupcakes are supposed to be #1 grade according to National Plant Network. Yours are excellent looking, except for the puny one which NPN replaced excellently. However those chopped off roots and less than 3 nice canes does not make them #1 grades. They're still very nice anyway. Moses.