Kate Connally > wrote in news:f6dlke$kko$1
@usenet01.srv.cis.pitt.edu:

> Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>> On Jul 2, 4:38 pm, Kate Connally > wrote:
>>
>>>The black raspberries are in so I drove out to Schramm's
>>>Farm Market and got a pint. (If I could have afforded it I
>>>would have bought all they had!) Anyway, I got some heavy
>>>cream on the way home and for dessert last night I had a
>>>giant bowl of berries with sugar and cream. Yum!
>>
>>
>> I picked a couple of quarts out of my raspberry patch yesterday.
>> Probably will get a couple more quarts Wednesday. They're
>> dead easy to grow--do you have any space?
>>
>> Cindy Hamilton
>
> Not really. And, anyway, for me "dead easy to grow" would
> be something on the order of hiring a gardener to do it. ;-)
> I'm not much into plants - I mean, I like them and all, but
> I hate gardening. I did a tiny bit of it when I first moved
> into my house and didn't have my arthritis yet. You know how
> people plant maybe 2-3 tomato plants and then end up with
> bushels of tomatoes that they can't even give away? Well,
> I did that and got one tiny ripe tomato and about 3 unripe
> ones that I picked just before the first frost, figuring
> they were never going to get ripe! ;-)
>
> I did have some luck for a few years with some red currants
> but they got some disease and died. I like plants that you
> can plant and ignore and they will bloom or produce fruit
> forever after without any attention from me. House plants -
> forget it. If they don't meow when they're thirsty I'm not
> going to notice and they're going to shrivel up and die.
> It's pretty pathetic.
>
> Kate
>

Look if I can grow raspberries and mint anybody can....my thumb isn't
green it's black...raspberries rate up there with rhubarb as one of the
easiest plants to ignore and will flourish.

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