Bob Randall

Dan Boone wrote:I grow angustifolia here, where they grow wild and are known as "sand plums" -- just one of their many regional names. Honestly I had never heard of any of your named cultivars before; people go wildcraft them along the back roads or they transplant a few wild ones into their yard and wait for a thicket to appear (which is what I'm doing).

Here in early summer when they ripen I should have a bunch of seeds to share. But I don't have any source info for the cultivars you are looking for, sorry!

I grow a selected yellow one here in Houston. I call it Rohde after the late fruit explorer who found it. Bob Randall

I have been growing both southern highbush blueberries and upright domestic blackberries (kiowas and Tupis) for many years here in southeast Texas. Blackberries if tied to a stake (or grape trellis post )and pruned to eye height and secondary branches to 18 inches are easily managed and stack well under improved muscadines. They can be triple stacked with sweet potato spinach below. These three plants don't really benefit from each other but don't compete in the same horizontal space.

Blueberries need much more water and are thus not well suited for this guild because blackberries grow too much if watered a lot and I need to mosquito net blueberries which would snag in thorns of blackberries. I am experimenting with kiwis in the paths near the blueberries but don't have any Houston plants yet that benefit from them that I can benefit from too.