Last night I “rescued” a blackberry plant that has been growing between the fence and my neighbors garage for close to a decade.
My new neighbors have redone the whole yard during this COVID thing, including cleaning and graveling around the garage and replacing the post and beam fence with a privacy fence. Some weeds have been growing up on a bit of dirt on my side of the fence, and I noticed that some of them looked very familiar. I looked over to my blackberry and raspberry plants, and realized what it was. It has survived the years of been treated as a weed, the winters, and growing in basically sand and gravel on the west side of a building. It was just mixed in with the weeds and brush, and I’d see a random berry over the years.
I figured it’s hardy enough, I might give it a chance. I dug up two spindly canes with a section of root and put it in a reused gallon pot to grow out. I gave it a trimming to reduce water loss since it no longer has the whole root system. At the least, I’ll bring it up to my friends land when it’s grown, not sure if I want it in the long run since I have several cultivars planned already.