Raspberry and thornless blackberry patch

[skyhightree1]

I bought a start to raspberry and thornless blackberries to plant in my back yard.. I used the litter out of my coop and some 10-10-10 lil lime tilled it in and after a good soaking rain I'll put BLK plastic down and plant them.

 

[wbvs58]

I can send you some blackberry with thorns Sky, if you want the real thing.

Ken

 

[coachg]

Build you a trellis system , like for grapes or muscadines . You won't be sorry !

 

[TexasJerseyMilker]

Last year I planted a row of Boysenberries. They are part Blackberry, part Raspberry and part Marion berry. They are trellised on 2 wires. You let the first year canes grow, they don't make berries and you wind them on the first wire of the trellis. The second year they bear and you wind those on the second wire, bringing up the first year canes to the lower. This year I will get boysenberrys, see if all this work is worth it.

Invasive Himalayan blackberries in Oregon take over entire pastures. Every year I have the blackberry wars. Chopping down, stump painting and just straight spraying herbicide. I have it controlled in pasture 2 and 3. The river side of pasture one is my next line of attack.

The blackberry bloom season is the major honey flow of bees here. My 'employees' make huge amounts of honey off them. I make huge amounts of jam off them before I cut them down.

 

[TexasJerseyMilker]

Boysen berries have thorns. The other berry patch I planted are everbearring strawberries. They filled the freezer with strawberries with a lot less work. You have to net them though or the jays will take every single one.

 

[skyhightree1]

I can send you some blackberry with thorns Sky, if you want the real thing.

Ken

I have those im going to say no thanks ken lol

 

[skyhightree1]

Build you a trellis system , like for grapes or muscadines . You won't be sorry !

I probably will once they grow some

 

[skyhightree1]

Boysen berries have thorns. The other berry patch I planted are everbearring strawberries. They filled the freezer with strawberries with a lot less work. You have to net them though or the jays will take every single one.

That's funny that's my next order of business strawberries

 

[skyhightree1]

Ready for planting

 

[skyhightree1]

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