If you plan to grow blackberries, raspberries, boysenberries and the like, there are two things to know before you plant these cane berries. Our latest YouTube video helps you decide on a location, and how to keep these plants in check.
Our latest YouTube video shows you how to prune unruly blackberries before spring bud in 3 steps.
We got a good one from Ask Gardenerd this week: "Hello, our blackberries are thriving this year, probably because of all the rain we got in SoCal, but I am…
As we look into the corner of the Gardenerd Test Garden, we see the need for blackberry pruning. Someone else in the Gardenerd community did the same thing and asked:…
Here is Southern California the cane berries are ripening. We planted
a cutting last year, and the reward has been sweet so far. We’ve been nibbling on a few blackberries each day.
The question always comes up: How do you know when to harvest? Here is a simple primer.
Blackberries produce fruit on second-year canes
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Every once in a while I get a question that I don’t know the answer to. This week was one of those times:
“I am planting some yellow raspberries this spring. I am now able to harvest strawberries in the spring and blackberries in the summer. I selected the yellows so that I could have a fall harvest
of fruit. What do I need to know to encourage this to happen? What should I expect the first year?”
Cane berries can be fun – thorny, but …
Fall is the time to start thinking about next year’s fruit, mainly because bare root fruit trees and cane berries will soon be in stock. Most seed companies and nurseries encourage you to order early
for deliveries that start in January, and their supply sells out quickly. So now is the time.
Peaceful Valley Farm and Garden Supply has always been my go-to place for bare root fruit trees
and cane berries (no, I don’t get any kickbacks for promoting them, I just love these guys). The folks at …
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