nightshade
Garden Ornament
I have boughten ones as well as wild ones in red and black.
Mulch around them in the fall with sawdust to improve your acidity and help protect them from poor weather during their hibernation. They need water must not drowned, it they get to moist they will rot, and would rather be a little dry most of the time then over wet. You should cut off the shoots that had this years berries on at end of the harvest season, these stalks will not produce fruit next year and will only suck up nutrients that should be going to produce new stalks and fruit. They do not mind bad soil but will not do extremely well in tight clay which should be amended with a little compost to keep it from being hard as a rock. Gravely or other types of poor soil is not a big deal.
Raised beds for them can be more of a convince because they help keep them contained. Any where a blackberry touches the ground it will re-root and make a new plant, sometimes this is great, more plants more fruit. Not so great if you want a neat well maintained looking patch. In a raised bed it makes it easy, if it out of the bed you can either dig it up and move it or simply mow it off.
Hope this helps.
Mulch around them in the fall with sawdust to improve your acidity and help protect them from poor weather during their hibernation. They need water must not drowned, it they get to moist they will rot, and would rather be a little dry most of the time then over wet. You should cut off the shoots that had this years berries on at end of the harvest season, these stalks will not produce fruit next year and will only suck up nutrients that should be going to produce new stalks and fruit. They do not mind bad soil but will not do extremely well in tight clay which should be amended with a little compost to keep it from being hard as a rock. Gravely or other types of poor soil is not a big deal.
Raised beds for them can be more of a convince because they help keep them contained. Any where a blackberry touches the ground it will re-root and make a new plant, sometimes this is great, more plants more fruit. Not so great if you want a neat well maintained looking patch. In a raised bed it makes it easy, if it out of the bed you can either dig it up and move it or simply mow it off.
Hope this helps.
). I came across a comparison online with Triple Crown, and the tester found Doyles to be more prolific, but a tad sour and thinks that they would make good wine.
