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Re: [seedsavers] Now several plants wanted and have plums, blackberries



On Tuesday 22 January 2008 02:23:46 pm Lawrence F. London, Jr. wrote:
I've got Jerusalem artichokes that were being pulled out (before the ground 
froze). They are the wild (small tuber) Nebraska kind and adapted to this 
zone 4-5 climate and dry summers. 

While I've got stocks of multiplying onions, horseradish, and black and red 
raspberries, they aren't anything special. This kind of stuff seems like a 
better thing to give and trade locally. 

How could I obtain some of the plum seed? And what is the zone and water 
requirements for the blackberries. I've managed to kill the plantings the 
last three times they were tried.

> I should mention that I, for one, will be very interested in exchanging
> plant, bulb and tuber stocks.
> At this time I am looking for the following:
>
> 1) any kind of multiplying onion
> 2) Jerusalem artichoke
> 3) comfrey
> 4) horseradish
> 5) raspberries (black and red)
> 6) blackberries
>
> We have a wild plum around this region that makes the very best jam. I can
> save seeds from my tree to share. Its a very vigorous small tree that
> propagates by seed and underground runner (as far as I can tell)
>
> I have an everbearing delicious blackberry that I can share rooted sprouts
> from. This is a compact plant with a very different growth habit compared
> to the wild variety, easy to prune and shape and with somewhat less
> troublesome thorns.
>
> Herbs and ornamentals should not escape our attention.
>
>
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