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- Transplant blackberries properly
- Find a good location for the blackberry
- Ideal is transplanting in the spring
- Prepare the planting hole properly
- Tips & Tricks
Transplant blackberries properly
The blackberry plant, with its rods shooting out each year, is generally quite a survivalist. When transplanting but some things should be considered to allow the plant to grow smoothly.
Find a good location for the blackberry
Blackberries in the home garden are faithful suppliers of delicious berries, which gradually ripen all summer long and can be harvested fresh for months. With only a little care in the form of a regular fertilization and an annual re-cut, blackberry plants rejuvenate almost constantly themselves and can thus provide decades of pleasure. That is why it is a shame when old blackberry plants have to be removed in the garden when building greenhouses or other projects. If you are looking for a new location for a blackberry plant, you should choose it in a sunny and sheltered place. Sometimes it is also advisable to put blackberry plants on a trellis in front of a sunny wall in order to put the maturity forward.
Ideal is transplanting in the spring
The best chance for a survival of the blackberry plant offers a conversion in the spring. As soon as the upper soil layer is no longer frozen, blackberries can be replanted until about April. If one year old rods are present on the plant to be displaced, fruits may possibly be harvested from the plant in the same year. As with all plants, prolonged dry periods for repositioning should be avoided. However, in early spring there is also no excessive heat, so that the pouring of the plant usually suffices after irrigation.
Prepare the planting hole properly
The period between digging and reintroduction into the soil should be as short as possible to protect the blackberry roots from drying out. When digging, the roots should remain as completely as possible on the plant, otherwise a larger pruning of the rods will be necessary to compensate. To plant a hole of at least 50x50x50 centimeters should be dug. In order to optimally apply the fertilizer for the first year, the following natural fertilizers can be mixed with the plant substrate:
Tips & Tricks
If an old blackberry bush can not be dug up due to its branched roots, an increase in cuttings is also an option. These are ideally cut by annual rods and rooted mostly within a few weeks.