After fighting the blackberry vines for some 6 years now, which invade from two sides of my yard, this year I finally had quite a few bunches of berries hanging over the fence into my yard. I was looking forward to picking them when the neighbour at the back suddenly cut out all the vines. On one hand, I was happy to see him finally cleaning up the yard (it is a rental house, and I never see anyone in the back yard except the owner a couple times per year). But on the other hand, I was sad that his timing was off - if he had left them for another month, I would have picked quite a few berries.
But I am picking a few blackberries from the ravine side, behind my espalier trees. I enjoyed some more berries tonight:
On the other side, where my upper neighbours have a 4' retaining wall with a 5' fence on top, I see that they also have a zucchini growing into my yard:
On a sobering note, the virginia creeper on that wall tells me that Fall is just around the corner:
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I love when friendly visitors come wandering. Not the blackberry, although tasty they are such a nuisance. The zucchini though, very nice! A couple years back a pumpkin came visiting through the neighbor's fence. It was the only pumpkin she got that year. My daughter loved watching it grow. When it was time to harvest it, we offered it back to it's original owner, but she was happy to let my daughter make a jack-o-lantern. Thus started the wheel in my head that the next year lead to some raised beds and my own veggie patch.
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