I do this with many garden plants :) I accidentally discovered this when my overgrown forsythias touched the ground and started rooting, so I started pinning overgrown plants to the ground to see which ones would take root. This is much easier than taking cuttings. I will try digging the hole method instead of pinning.
We just moved to WA. state to be with our son . He had told us the blackberry bushes grow like weeds here and take everything over . I didn't believe it until I saw it . They are along roads,in yards and any land , across from shopping area's and next to it . On my son's land he went to check on things and the road and paths were covered with the berry bushes ! He had to hack them down to get his truck through . We don't have to go far or look hard to pick berries here for our first time here in Wa. and will be canning . Blessings, Linda
6 yrs later yet still so beneficial. Been laerning more about all my different berries & grapes since ive ignored the leaves for 30 yrs. Time to eat more berry leaves 😊
You could try cooking pulled pork stuffed baked potatoes with the sun oven. Put a small pork butt roast in some apple cider vinegar, chilli powder, paprkia, and chicken broth. Bake some large baking potatoes in the other. Shred the pork and add bbq sauce (optional) and place it on top of the open baked potato. I also place a little butter, cheese, and sour cream on the potato. It can all be cooked in the sun oven.
Wow, this is an oldie. Doug's focused on setting up that homestead for his family. It's been quite a journey to witness over the years. Thank you for all you do, all that you share, and for being awake. Have a great weekend, Homestead Homies ✌
Our Blackberries were covered by all the snow we had last year and in the spring the plants that were bent over to the ground had rooted down and were growing. We separated the new plants from the old and had several new ones that took off right away.
Stacy, thank you for showing us how to do a tasty combo meal in the sun oven. Love that pot roast recipe. Seeing how you prepare it is so much better than reading a cook book for me. Got me hungry watching. Love that its zero energy, zero heat in the house on hot summer days, and dinner is ready when you are... win win win! Love it! I love sweet potatoes cooked soft in the skins. All the nutrients baked right in. Sun oven is going on my "wanted" list! Thank you.
I love berries, too. Thanks forgiving us another way to propagate them. I really want to use a sun oven. This makes so much more sense than burning up fossil fuels.
Doug and Stacy, thanks for the video on the blackberries. You illustrated it well. I have read of the technique, and you make it even easier! The sun oven looks great! I live in sunny south Florida, so that is something to look into. The ovens have come a long way. Thank you!
I still hope so. I was up there but. did not have time to see you in May. I lost my nice on the 11th. I want to see you both for a happy time. So one day it will happen. :)
A yum on that pot roast ! OMG Im so excited to be able to order my sun oven. I got a savings for that and a couple other things. I have been aquiring more Hand tools and less gas powered and electrical types of things for use in my garden and in the home. Now the blackberry thing.. AWESOME ! my neighbors have blackberries and i have got to share this with her. ! This will make for more room also. cause hers are growing branches out just like that. Thank you Stacy and Doug ! God bless you !
out standing tips thanks for the information both of you... love the Dutch oven never seen one like that great ideas... thanks a again from Alaska will use these ideas at my home in the woods .
I've been going through your videos and sharing all day! This is great info for me as this is my first year growing blackberries, raspberries, blueberries and kiwi! Thanks so much for sharing this, I am truly grateful!! You've helped me in so many ways. I've explained before about my MS and what you two are doing is helping me help myself and I wish I could do more than say Thank you but it's all I have to offer. So again, Thank you!! Much love and Gods Blessings to you both always! 💞 Lisa
I had this paused on the TV and my boyfriend walked by and said, "That's not an old timer, that's Doug... Ya think if he disguised himself, he'd put another beard over his beard?" Hahaha!! What a visual! And yes, I can see Doug doing that. 😅
Round TWO - What I’m going to do… is arch it out perpendicular to where it will be in its new row already when I snip it! Add cattle panel after to tie the new row up.
Rewatching some of your videos, getting ready to tend my fruit beds and garden in general. This is a great tip and I will be using it in the future, thanks Doug.
That's awesome we just planted blackberries 5 months ago and have that happening and didn't want to buy more but wanted more. That's a womnderful share thank you so much. Just looked at them this morning and was wondering how to get more
Doug, thanks for this knowledge nugget. This method could give you a blackberry hedge in a few years. Your way of tipping canes is brilliant! And the way you filmed it was very instructive. Thanks for sharing this. Love blackberries. A home I lived in many years ago had an 8 ft diameter blackberry hedge that ran one side of the property line. LONG hedge! Besides always having plenty berries for my family, that hedge fed most of my neighbors and wildlife in the area as well! Loved it. Always felt gratitude for the hard work of the farmer who planted those original blackberries.
if you know that you don't want the starts where you bury the tips at, you can bury little 4" pots filled with potting soil and then bury the tips in them. That way you aren't leaving a hole when you move the starts in the spring
Doug, When do you cut off the old stems (that has fruit on them now) and instead of cutting them off, can you root those as well in a month or 2? - Stacey, Just a thought, cover bottom pot with foil first for an air tight seal. Can you also show how you position the oven to the sun ? Cause that was a bit confusing from the web-inar. Are you moving it every hour?
Any time you find a new type of berry plant, all you need is one bc in a couple years you'll have hundreds without bothering to bury the tips. They also spread underground through rhizomes, and they'll sprout from seeds dropped by birds or rotten fruit which has fallen. I live in NJ and I constantly dig up random berry plants that I come across and now I have fields of different berries all over my yard. They're literally weeds. I've found that concrete reinforcing screen works great for a trellis- cut the bottom wire running lengthwise off and use the wires sticking out to push into the ground to hold the wire upright. I use zip ties on the first click to loosely hold the stalks to the wire. You can either contain them in a bed or do what I do and leave a lawnmower wide path between the rows and then you don't have to worry about a big unruly briar patch
Now there's a COOL Job, while you're working the blackberries, you pick and eat as you work! Mmmmm.....now that's BERILICIOUS! Forgive the pun, and those vittles that Stacy's got planned for supper, nothing like a homestyle, country dinner to top the day off! Thumbs Doug and Stacy,......I believe I've seen ya'll on Julianne's channel as well on the FRESH PRINCESS'S! :)
yeah you can put the tip of the blackberry bush into a pot full of dirt and stake it down in the pot - so when that roots you can cut it and then have a bush in a pot you can put wherever
That was a totally awesome tips on the black berries. I have one that I can start me another. I am so excited. Thank you for that tip. The meal Stacy has prepared looks delicious. The only thing that is missing is the onions. Lol.
You guys are terrific. In what state (besides bliss) are you homesteading? I am in southern Arizona, aka 'opposite-world', but higher in elevation than the Sonora desert, where I get 15 to 20 inches of rain per year. Your videos give me hope for humanity and for me.
Happy Independence Day Dough and Stacy!! Doug - great tip on the blackberries! Looks like you are growing one of the thorn-less Indians varieties but also noticed the gloves. Question, do you happen to know if this propagation method works with Raspberries? Stacy - this past Friday my oven arrived and I was contemplating the first meal which is now going to be roast and sweet 'taters! Thank you. Have a blessed day!
What do you do with the new canes for the Winter after you cut the old ones? Thanks for the info and for the wood cook stove. Brought back lots of memories from the mountains .
That was very interesting information,,I never knew that you could double your berry plants ,,, thank you very much , you have showed me so much ,,,, your northern neighbor Ed,, Luray mo
My family also lives by the fives books of Moses. I love your homesteading and off grid living videos. I wanted to view all of them and I am so happy that I found this video. I have even more admiration for you and Stacy now. :)
Very good to know, I’ve heard about that but I like your idea better I’ve got 9 bushes. But Deere’s got on to 3 of them and about killed them. This spring they started coming back except one it died.And now I’ve have several branches on the ground. Tomorrow I’m going to try your method. Thanks for that video.
I recently got a thornless blackberry...building clothes line type hangers for them and some rassberries too.. I live near Sequim, Wa. Can’t wait for results!
That's cool idea!!👍I plan to move mine they grow in powerline &every so years they come thru & bushhog line😡I know it needs to be done..but oh well..be safe & blessed✝️🙏
I pull ht4 cane over like you did and scratch th dirt a bit....but I'd take a heavy stone and then pull the cane over letting a few inches pass up the loosened dirt while laying the stone on the cane to hold it in the loose dirt. soon you can move the stone back to see of its rating well.. If so, use clippers to separate the new shoot. You can also take a pot or can of dirt and do sort of the same and end up with a potted start once separated from the mother plant..... Many different ways to do the same thing.... Best!
Hey Doug good video great idea with propagating the blackberries. Can you do this with all wild berries and grapes as well? and if you had a long branch like 20 feet does it work if you put it in the middle in the earth or only on the ends by burying the tip?
Perfect, was just wondering what to do with berries that showed up behind the garage where I have a big section of my container garden. Lumber cost too much for raised beds this year. Was so hapoy the berries showed up. I really want a sun oven to make meals like that too.
Nice! What kind of fence do you have in your blackberries? Do you weave the plants into it? Do you fertilize your blackberries? When? With what? Thanks!
Life is simple. We just have to help it along. Thank you for the wonderful lesson.
I do this with many garden plants :) I accidentally discovered this when my overgrown forsythias touched the ground and started rooting, so I started pinning overgrown plants to the ground to see which ones would take root. This is much easier than taking cuttings. I will try digging the hole method instead of pinning.
Love blackberries. Can't get enough of them.
We just moved to WA. state to be with our son . He had told us the blackberry bushes grow like weeds here and take everything over . I didn't believe it until I saw it . They are along roads,in yards and any land , across from shopping area's and next to it . On my son's land he went to check on things and the road and paths were covered with the berry bushes ! He had to hack them down to get his truck through . We don't have to go far or look hard to pick berries here for our first time here in Wa. and will be canning . Blessings, Linda
Very cool. Man... we have lost so much information on doing things that our grandparents used to know. Thank you for bringing some of that back.
The deers who visited us every morning eating all our berries and salads thanks you :)
6 yrs later yet still so beneficial. Been laerning more about all my different berries & grapes since ive ignored the leaves for 30 yrs. Time to eat more berry leaves 😊
Great propagating tips and Love the sun oven!! Thanks Stacy and Doug!
Thank you! My blackberry plants have tons of new shoots.
You could try cooking pulled pork stuffed baked potatoes with the sun oven. Put a small pork butt roast in some apple cider vinegar, chilli powder, paprkia, and chicken broth. Bake some large baking potatoes in the other. Shred the pork and add bbq sauce (optional) and place it on top of the open baked potato. I also place a little butter, cheese, and sour cream on the potato. It can all be cooked in the sun oven.
I don't think they eat pork
I didn't know that.
Wow, this is an oldie. Doug's focused on setting up that homestead for his family. It's been quite a journey to witness over the years. Thank you for all you do, all that you share, and for being awake. Have a great weekend, Homestead Homies ✌
Our Blackberries were covered by all the snow we had last year and in the spring the plants that were bent over to the ground had rooted down and were growing. We separated the new plants from the old and had several new ones that took off right away.
Stacy, thank you for showing us how to do a tasty combo meal in the sun oven. Love that pot roast recipe. Seeing how you prepare it is so much better than reading a cook book for me. Got me hungry watching.
Love that its zero energy, zero heat in the house on hot summer days, and dinner is ready when you are... win win win! Love it!
I love sweet potatoes cooked soft in the skins. All the nutrients baked right in. Sun oven is going on my "wanted" list! Thank you.
You're right, Doug, that IS a good tip! I recall seeing it before, long ago, but had forgotten about it, so thanks for the reminder!
I did the same thing,started with one plant now a 50ft row after 4 years 👍✌
Blackberries are my favorite fruit. I don't have any bushes, but plan to get some. Great trick. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for the wonderful idea Doug! :-)
That is awesome Doug Thank you for sharing this tip !!!!👏
I love berries, too. Thanks forgiving us another way to propagate them. I really want to use a sun oven. This makes so much more sense than burning up fossil fuels.
💗Doug & Stacy💗 Thanks for the tips on the barry plants
Im gonna do this! Thank you Doug and Stacy.
Thank you Doug for showing us this nugget on propagating blackberries🥰
We raise blackberry here also.This is the best way to grow your patch its almost foolproof.
Deep South Homestead can I do the same with raspberries too?
I've lost count on how many videos I've watch Stacy cooking while Doug holds the carema. The food always looks delicious!
Great tip rooting method. You can tip root at any place the cane comes in contact with the ground, it doesn't need to be the tip.
This works with some other plants/bushes as well such as forsythia. This method is called Tip Layering. Super easy to do. Love me some berries!
GONNA TRY THIS, THANK YOU DOUG!😉👍
WOW!!! Wish I would've found your channel long time ago. Thanks for the Great Tips!!!
You just saved me a lot of time and effort! Thanks. God bless.
Great tip...I like that idea of starting new plants. Thanks Doug. Now I gotta get me some black berry bushes. I do love black berries. ~♡~
Great tips for the blackberries. Supper looks delicious.
Doug and Stacy, thanks for the video on the blackberries. You illustrated it well. I have read of the technique, and you make it even easier! The sun oven looks great! I live in sunny south Florida, so that is something to look into. The ovens have come a long way. Thank you!
Wow free plants! Sun oven sounds wonderful. Thanks for sharing. Loving my daisies.
Thank you Doug I learned something new I'll do this with my blackberry bushes
Glad to see you really like the sun oven. Great tip on the berry's too.
Best wishes to you both.
I still hope so. I was up there but. did not have time to see you in May. I lost my nice on the 11th. I want to see you both for a happy time. So one day it will happen. :)
A yum on that pot roast ! OMG Im so excited to be able to order my sun oven. I got a savings for that and a couple other things. I have been aquiring more Hand tools and less gas powered and electrical types of things for use in my garden and in the home.
Now the blackberry thing.. AWESOME ! my neighbors have blackberries and i have got to share this with her. ! This will make for more room also. cause hers are growing branches out just like that.
Thank you Stacy and Doug ! God bless you !
out standing tips thanks for the information both of you... love the Dutch oven never seen one like that great ideas... thanks a again from Alaska will use these ideas at my home in the woods .
Great tip! I've never seen this with berry plants. Thanks. Daisy.
I've been going through your videos and sharing all day! This is great info for me as this is my first year growing blackberries, raspberries, blueberries and kiwi! Thanks so much for sharing this, I am truly grateful!! You've helped me in so many ways. I've explained before about my MS and what you two are doing is helping me help myself and I wish I could do more than say Thank you but it's all I have to offer. So again, Thank you!! Much love and Gods Blessings to you both always! 💞 Lisa
What a great tip! My sun oven arrived today!!!
Love you all! So helpful in spreading such important info!
I had this paused on the TV and my boyfriend walked by and said, "That's not an old timer, that's Doug... Ya think if he disguised himself, he'd put another beard over his beard?" Hahaha!! What a visual! And yes, I can see Doug doing that. 😅
Thanks for the tip I got 15 pieces from a neighbor last year and now I know what to do with this long stems
Wow, learned a new trick with the berries. Very yummiest dinner Stacy
Round TWO - What I’m going to do… is arch it out perpendicular to where it will be in its new row already when I snip it! Add cattle panel after to tie the new row up.
Rewatching some of your videos, getting ready to tend my fruit beds and garden in general. This is a great tip and I will be using it in the future, thanks Doug.
been doing this for years. Works excellent
Great idea Doug!
Common sense if you think of it.
Thanks for helping us all out!
You and Stacey are so amazing!
Have a nice day!
Moira
From England.
That's awesome we just planted blackberries 5 months ago and have that happening and didn't want to buy more but wanted more. That's a womnderful share thank you so much. Just looked at them this morning and was wondering how to get more
glad Im going back through your older videos:)))))))
I never thought to propogate berries that way! Awesome! Stacy I definitely have the Sun Oven on my list of things to save up for!
Doug, thanks for this knowledge nugget. This method could give you a blackberry hedge in a few years.
Your way of tipping canes is brilliant! And the way you filmed it was very instructive. Thanks for sharing this.
Love blackberries. A home I lived in many years ago had an 8 ft diameter blackberry hedge that ran one side of the property line. LONG hedge! Besides always having plenty berries for my family, that hedge fed most of my neighbors and wildlife in the area as well! Loved it. Always felt gratitude for the hard work of the farmer who planted those original blackberries.
Guess what I'm going to do to my raspberry bushes this spring! Excellent, information. I have done this with flowering shrubs, why not my berries!
I found my blackberry bushes doing this on their own 😄😁
if you know that you don't want the starts where you bury the tips at, you can bury little 4" pots filled with potting soil and then bury the tips in them. That way you aren't leaving a hole when you move the starts in the spring
Thanks for the tip Doug! Love the farm help. Keep it up
Thank you Doug. That makes so much more logical than cutting them. Less likely to lose them
I should move in with Y'ALL! You definitely know how to do things and eat good!
Just place a stone or wire peg on top of where're the tip naturally meets the soil and it will root just the same - no digging needed.
Thank you, Doug & Stacy.
Great tip for the berries. The food looks awesome too.
thanks for sharing that, I love blackberries
Great tip! I will try this method on my raspberry plant! Awesome looking meal in the sun oven too!
No not yet, maybe it will come today, I will let you guys know as soon as it gets hear. Thanks again
***** Whooohoooo it's hear, it's hear!!!!! The oven just came!!!!!
Great tip Doug! Wonderful looking meal! Good video guys!
Oh nice Doug. I knew about the tips but I never thought to make a fence arbor out of cattle panels :)
So glad this popped up for me to watch. Heading your way tomorrow to dig some up from a fellow HH to transplant in our neck of the woods.
Doug, When do you cut off the old stems (that has fruit on them now) and instead of cutting them off, can you root those as well in a month or 2? - Stacey, Just a thought, cover bottom pot with foil first for an air tight seal. Can you also show how you position the oven to the sun ? Cause that was a bit confusing from the web-inar. Are you moving it every hour?
Any time you find a new type of berry plant, all you need is one bc in a couple years you'll have hundreds without bothering to bury the tips. They also spread underground through rhizomes, and they'll sprout from seeds dropped by birds or rotten fruit which has fallen. I live in NJ and I constantly dig up random berry plants that I come across and now I have fields of different berries all over my yard. They're literally weeds. I've found that concrete reinforcing screen works great for a trellis- cut the bottom wire running lengthwise off and use the wires sticking out to push into the ground to hold the wire upright. I use zip ties on the first click to loosely hold the stalks to the wire. You can either contain them in a bed or do what I do and leave a lawnmower wide path between the rows and then you don't have to worry about a big unruly briar patch
Now there's a COOL Job, while you're working the blackberries, you pick and eat as you work! Mmmmm.....now that's BERILICIOUS! Forgive the pun, and those vittles that Stacy's got planned for supper, nothing like a homestyle, country dinner to top the day off! Thumbs Doug and Stacy,......I believe I've seen ya'll on Julianne's channel as well on the FRESH PRINCESS'S! :)
oh yeah this is awesome! I have wild black/red berry's and would love to fill the holes in the row. going to do this now tks so much!
yeah you can put the tip of the blackberry bush into a pot full of dirt and stake it down in the pot - so when that roots you can cut it and then have a bush in a pot you can put wherever
my BB's send up 15-20 new plants every year within 10 ft of the patch. come spring time i can dig them up and transplant them.
That was a totally awesome tips on the black berries. I have one that I can start me another. I am so excited. Thank you for that tip. The meal Stacy has prepared looks delicious. The only thing that is missing is the onions. Lol.
+OFF GRID with DOUG and STACY It looked so delicious I don't think it would of matter that the onions were present. It's all finger kicking good. 🙂
Just watch this video...love it** thank you..I have an old blackberry patch that's been let go needs a lot of love and care""
Love your videos! Great job.
Very interesting indeed. Will these new plants fruit the first season?
Same works for raspberries. Mine did it all by themselves. When they bent over the tips automatically took root.
You guys are terrific. In what state (besides bliss) are you homesteading? I am in southern Arizona, aka 'opposite-world', but higher in elevation than the Sonora desert, where I get 15 to 20 inches of rain per year. Your videos give me hope for humanity and for me.
Cool! I’m going to try this with my thornless boysenberries and blackberries. I just planted them this year though. Wonder if I should wait.
Nope. I left my berry plants in California…🎶 😭
Happy Independence Day Dough and Stacy!!
Doug - great tip on the blackberries! Looks like you are growing one of the thorn-less Indians varieties but also noticed the gloves. Question, do you happen to know if this propagation method works with Raspberries?
Stacy - this past Friday my oven arrived and I was contemplating the first meal which is now going to be roast and sweet 'taters! Thank you.
Have a blessed day!
What do you do with the new canes for the Winter after you cut the old ones? Thanks for the info and for the wood cook stove. Brought back lots of memories from the mountains
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Some plants like forsythia do this by themselves. If only I'd planted blackberries before, I'd be eating them now. =)
The plant is growing up side down,doesn't that matter?seems odd to me. your wife is an awesome chef.intresting video Thank you!
That was very interesting information,,I never knew that you could double your berry plants ,,, thank you very much , you have showed me so much ,,,, your northern neighbor Ed,, Luray mo
My family also lives by the fives books of Moses. I love your homesteading and off grid living videos. I wanted to view all of them and I am so happy that I found this video. I have even more admiration for you and Stacy now. :)
Gut Shabbos, my brother and sister!
Good tip for getting more blackberries!
We have so many wild blackberries on our place that I don't hardly know how to handle them all!
Great Tip. Headed out to the Berry patch to use your advice as soon as I find my twine.
Very good to know, I’ve heard about that but I like your idea better I’ve got 9 bushes. But Deere’s got on to 3 of them and about killed them. This spring they started coming back except one it died.And now I’ve have several branches on the ground. Tomorrow I’m going to try your method. Thanks for that video.
Awesome! Can you do this with blueberry bushes as well?
I recently got a thornless blackberry...building clothes line type hangers for them and some rassberries too.. I live near Sequim, Wa. Can’t wait for results!
That's cool idea!!👍I plan to move mine they grow in powerline &every so years they come thru & bushhog line😡I know it needs to be done..but oh well..be safe & blessed✝️🙏
Blackberry- Lemon jam? That sounds interesting. Would you post the recipe?
Doug nice job!
Best thing I learned today. Awesome! Our future Peacewood Posterity will be better off because of that black berry info! Shalom.
I pull ht4 cane over like you did and scratch th dirt a bit....but I'd take a heavy stone and then pull the cane over letting a few inches pass up the loosened dirt while laying the stone on the cane to hold it in the loose dirt. soon you can move the stone back to see of its rating well.. If so, use clippers to separate the new shoot. You can also take a pot or can of dirt and do sort of the same and end up with a potted start once separated from the mother plant..... Many different ways to do the same thing.... Best!
Good to know as I planted 4 bushes this past fall.
Hey Doug good video great idea with propagating the blackberries. Can you do this with all wild berries and grapes as well? and if you had a long branch like 20 feet does it work if you put it in the middle in the earth or only on the ends by burying the tip?
Perfect, was just wondering what to do with berries that showed up behind the garage where I have a big section of my container garden. Lumber cost too much for raised beds this year. Was so hapoy the berries showed up. I really want a sun oven to make meals like that too.
Would the old growth (where you planted the end of the bramble) serve as a support cane for the next year’s growth?
Nice! What kind of fence do you have in your blackberries? Do you weave the plants into it?
Do you fertilize your blackberries? When? With what? Thanks!