Talking Southern – Blackberry Winter

Talking Southern – Blackberry Winter

So it is springtime – or sprangtime, as we mentioned in an earlier column – and we  anxiously await, or else dread, the official arrival of summer and its blue-blazing heat on June 20,, 2025.   But often around this time of year in the southeast, there comes a cooler spell, lasting perhaps a week, that can threaten newly blooming plants with rime much later than when old Jack Frost usually makes his rounds.      We call this mini-cold-blast, “Bl…