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I've never had the (dubious) pleasure of picking gooseberries, so I can't say. But definitely thorny enough to pierce gloves.

What does gooseberry pie taste like?

Lali, I'm surprised you were able to buy GMO seeds. I've never seen them marketed to home gardeners in the U.S., and I've bought from a lot of sources. As far as I know, even the ones Monsanto sells to home gardeners (like Ferry Morse seeds) are just ordinary hybrids and open-pollinated (heirloom) v...

No luck with hawthorn trees so far - it was too hot for the dogs so we turned back after an hour or so. Might be just as well, unless you had some really heavy-duty gloves along. Hawthorns are incredibly thorny. I planted some in our woods last year (they're supposed to be pretty), and they were pr...

Thanks, Jude - I promise not to be a troll or spambot. ;) It is a little hard to have a conversation when you're not sure when a post will appear (and if it will even make sense at that point.) Though, to be honest, I didn't notice the long delay the first time. We went on vacation two days later. I...

Hi Frelga, good to see you. I do post on TORC (mainly in Movies), but I never really chatted there. Actually, I haven't been to TORC much lately - not too many Hobbit discussions that interest me, and I haven't had much time, so I stopped checking it often. Jude, the TSA experience was this: I was d...

Jude, I registered here just to say thanks for trying to get TOB back online. I wasn't sure what happened - whether cem moved it to her own website as she'd discussed, or technical problems, or ???? I suppose it was inevitable - so few of us were posting. Still, it's a pity we didn't get a chance to...