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To Herb or Not To Herb...No Question

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Black Raspberries    ...Snow blew across the landscape as the groundhog's revenge zapped us, again.  That predicted early spring had better happen soon.  However, an all-white terrain beats the dreary gray blah of January we experienced here in the Magic City.  Today I spent my day looking through my herb books under the pretense of straightening up my bookshelves.  Actually, I have realized that I am yearning fpots of little green herbs growing in pots in Le Petit Jardin.  I even dug out some seed packets with the dream of sunflowers while devising how I would keep them safe from the neighborhood groundhog as they grew big enough to fend for themselves.                                                    As I perused my photo files, the sparkling image of raspberries jumped out at me.  The Herb of the Year is bramble.  Blackberries and raspberries are included in the bramble collection.  Once upon a time I had such treasures growing in my much larger garden.  For several