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- Plant blackberries in your own garden
- Choose the right variety for your own garden
- Prepare the planting hole properly
- Give the blackberry branches the right footing
- Tips & Tricks
Plant blackberries in your own garden
If you would like to snack on fresh berries straight from your own garden all summer, then you should plant blackberries. Unlike other berry fruits, blackberries gradually ripen from July to October.
Choose the right variety for your own garden
There are sometimes big differences between the different types of blackberry in terms of growth habit and characteristics. So wild blackberry plants should be settled despite their very aromatic fruits only after careful consideration in their own garden. These tend to spread very much over the widely branched blackberry roots and can be removed after a few years only with great effort. To grow large fruits, the various cultivars are already better anyway, as they grow less vigorously and can be controlled more compactly. Basically, the blackberry varieties that are on sale today can be classified according to three criteria:
Prepare the planting hole properly
Blackberry plants do not root very deep, so the planting hole only has to be dug out about 50 to 70 centimeters deep. They spread their roots but rather flat out towards the sides, so each planting hole should first be at least as wide as deep dug. However, it can then be filled with a loose and humus-rich soil substrate when planting or replanting the blackberries. Ideally, this should already be mixed with some seasoned compost and mulched grass clippings, so you save the additional fertilization of the plants in the first year. After planting, you should thoroughly water the soil around the blackberry groves. This not only serves the water supply of the plants, but also the so-called sludge, so it flooded the earth in the resulting air bubbles in the plants around the roots.
Give the blackberry branches the right footing
In a sunny and sheltered location, the tendrils of climbing blackberry varieties can be up to 4.5 meters long. Contrary to upright sorts, which need only a stick or something like that for their growth, tend creeping varieties to thickening, unless they get a corresponding steering of the shoots. A trellis is perfectly suited as a climbing aid for blackberries, as it not only allows a clear arrangement of the individual tendrils, but also promotes the plant vitality by the light and well-ventilated arrangement and thus protects against disease.
Tips & Tricks
If you want to plant or transplant offshoots of blackberries, the time between the last frost and April is the best time to do so. Sometimes even in the same year first fruits can be harvested at the new location.