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- A trellis for blackberries in the garden
- Build a trellis yourself
- Annual care is necessary
- Tips & Tricks
A trellis for blackberries in the garden
In the cultivated cultivars of blackberries for the garden, there are now also upright species. For rambling blackberries, however, steering the tendrils with a trellis is still one of the best solutions.
Build a trellis yourself
A trellis for the forming education of blackberries can be in the garden also relatively easy to build yourself. It is an ideal solution to control growing blackberry varieties, as they can only be brought into shape with a targeted cut due to their long tendrils. For a trellis you need the following things:
Stretch the wire at intervals of about 50 centimeters as cross lines from peg to peg. Then plant the climbing blackberries at a distance of about two meters close to the trellis in the direction of the sun. Attach the tendrils to the tension wires with a piece of binding brush or special rings. Be sure to direct the tendrils in both directions to give a pleasantly loosened shape. It has a positive effect on the earliest possible maturity of the fruits, if all areas of the tendrils can be reached well by the sunlight.
Annual care is necessary
Blackberries always bear their fruit on two-year-old shoots that were expelled from the blackberry roots in the previous year. Therefore it is necessary to attach new tendrils to the trellis in your garden every year. After the harvest, you should cut the fruit-bearing tendrils near the ground in autumn. At the same time, you can already steer young shoots in the right direction at this time. Over the trellis out-guarded tendrils should cut off in the spring at the end, so promote the education of flowers and fruits.
Tips & Tricks
Wild blackberries from the forest or from embankments are more likely not suitable for use on a trellis. But you can let them proliferate in an area of their garden. You should be aware, however, that once settled blackberries of a wild variety spread very strong and difficult to remove completely.