I bought (10) - 1 gallon blackberry plants 2 years ago at an auction for a couple of dollars. I grew them and transplanted them into 5 gallon pots. I didn't know where I wanted to plant them on my property yet so I kept them in the pots. They began to produce berries the following year and my chickens proceeded to eat everyone of them as soon as they were ripe. They sat through two freezing winters with ice and snow and a summer without water. I thought they all had died . I walked past the pots of what I thought to be dead plants. 5 plants actually survived. I am excited to plant these very hardy blackberries this weekend.

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