A Comprehensive Guide to Pruning & Training Blackberries.
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- Опубліковано 17 жов 2024
- Many folks find growing blackberries intimidating: they can make a giant tangle of canes and spread to form a large mass of brambles if not properly trained.
Let’s take all the worry out of blackberries: when we understand the growth habit of blackberries, we can implement a simple and effective system to contain our blackberries and keep them producing large yields year after year.
Join me as I rehab my neglected blackberry patch and talk you through every step so you’re empowered to grow abundant crops of blackberries with ease.
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Thanks Angela! I have an understanding of what to do now. My husband did the majority of the gardening and especially pruning and trimming himself. He tried to teach me the last winter and spring season we could be out in the yard together. The berries weren't part of those tutorials. So I'm thankful for this video.
OMG, I finally get it! Watched several videos on pruning canes which left me bewildered before watching yours. Thank you!!
That’s the best explanation of pruning blackberries that I’ve seen. I understand why I’ve only been getting fruit every few years. I’ve been pruning the wrong canes off.
It is 9 degrees here in Idaho, I am so jealous of your ability to be outside. I am here to live vicariously through you!!
Oh my goodness! After watching numerous blackberry pruning vids, this one makes my brain so very happy(I don’t know how else to describe it, haha).Thank you, thank you!
I love thornless blackberries!
I use the wire trellis method. Wire is supported by T posts, and my blackberries are in a very long line. I just tie the primocanes to the wire, and weave them in as we go. Cutting out the dead florocanes in the fall is a bit more challenging, but not so much.
Another thing: producing a yield of brand new berry plants could help out when they are shared/sold for $4 to $6 a plant. I figure I have over 50 plants ready to be snipped off from their tips, and shared out this spring. :) And all that without reducing my berry harvest at all.
And... I purposefully pinch the ends of the primocanes in the summer, to encourage those laterals. More flowers are produced off of those pinched primocanes, which produce more berries the following year. :)
Parkrose? Howdy neighbor! I’m Patrick living in Yacolt Washington across the Columbia. I have plants, bees and chickens too. Great video. I just planted 65 more Boysenberry, Marionberry, Tayberry, Loganberry, Pink Lemonade Blueberry and strawberry plants. My patch needed to be enlarged and weeded. Wild Himalayan blackberry plants had taken over.
Thank you for this amazingly helpful video. We bought a property that is overrun with blackberries and I felt so overwhelmed by the project, but now I actually know what to do.
This video is amazing! It is the most clear video on blackberry pruning I have ever watched and I have watched quite a few at this point. (I just planted blackberries late spring and looking forward to fruit next year!)
Great training idea that I would not have thought of.
all the other videos ive seen confused me as a noob but this has explained everything. i now understand how the plant grows and how to prune it. ive just planted 7 cuttings from the forest behind my house and hope 3 will grow. thank you angela
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you. This is exactly the video I needed to see.
I ordered 2 thornless blackberry plants, so this comes at a perfect time for me because I've never grown them before. I was just thinking I need to buy a saw. Thanks!
Thank you so much. I can't wait to plant blackberries in our garden this year.
Oh wow! This is great, now I get what I should have been doing! And will start doing, I just hope I haven’t killed by small planting of blackberries and can go forward from here. Thank you so much, you are a great teacher❣️
This was wonderful! If you don't have one already, I'd love to see a video on how you plan/pace out your garden chores throughout the year to ensure everything gets tended to on time, at least under ideal circumstances.
Great info and love to actual witness what and how you are doing it and the diff it makes. Will try your idea of creating bundles of primos and florals.
Very informative. Cant wait to try out that method at the end
This was a very helpful video. Thank you!
Thank you for all the tips
Smart way to prune and train wow
Great idea ✂️🌱👍
I am still working on the Himalayan Blackberries, or Luther Burbank's curse, that covered over half my yard when we bought our house, and after years of on and off health problems, I am still working to eradicate them. I find using long armed loppers for blackberry canes easier than pruners or pruning saws. I like the leverage they give me on cutting through the thick canes, and the ability to reach into the canes with fewer scratches. My other weapon beyond the 4 horsepower brush cutter, is a billhook, which is like a machete with the sharp side of the blade that ends in a hook, that is great for carving into dense stands of canes. It's an important tool for hedge laying too.
How I wish Burbank had released thornless blackberries in the Pacific Northwest.
Oh, yes! Invasive blackberries are a whole different beast! I no longer have any in my yard (sometimes have to pull up bird-planted ones when they’re little). But when I did, I found laying a piece of plywood on the brambles helped me compress them and get near the roots with pruners. They’re such a difficult plant…I know permaculture says “the problem is the solution, but I’m just not seeing it with Himalayan blackberries.
Himalayan blackberries are why we can't have nice things out here.
@@rosem7042 🤣🤣🤣
I love this method of sorting the canes. Thanks for sharing 🙏🏼
I'm going to find a good location in the yard to put my thornless blackberries. They're a little too much for a large pot (raspberries do better IMO). If hand pruners are too hard to use, I'd recommend a short pair of loppers. Saws are such a pain to sterilize, so I only use those when necessary (usually an inch or more in diameter).
Thanks for this! I have always been confused by berry canes and now I think I have a much better understanding of how to take care of them properly.
I like that idea. Hoping this will work with raspberries too.
Oh Angela, it's just lovely to see your garden this time of year and to see George out there working alongside you. Here in Calgary, our growing season is so short and fraught with hail, and I'm currently looking out into a yard full of fresh snow in - 20C (mind you, we just finished a lovely, warm, chinook). Thanks for the encouragement at the beginning of the video. I'm still determining which projects I want to take on this spring and summer having a 4yo, a 2yo (both definitely interested in gardening!) and another baby coming this Aug.
This is the best "how to". I feel confident I will be able to do my own now. Thank you so much
Garden goals: having so many blackberry plants that I don’t immediately replant new tip rooted plants (and share them instead)!
As always thank you, Angela! I have read about canes (primo vs flouro) probably four to five times and never been able to visualize it! This was perfectly articulated and I’m ready to plant some blackberries/raspberries/etc!
Very helpful thank you
Great information, thank you. Can you address blackberry diseases and treatment?
Great information, thank you.
Do you have a video about dealing with invasive blackberries? I looked, but if you have one, I didn’t see it.
This is my first year with blackberries (1 plant) and I'd like them to spread a bit since my budget is limited. So, it sounds like for the first couple years I may want to let it spread naturally and do it's thing and come in to stake it like you did once my blackberries taking up the space I'd like them to. Obviously, still pruning in fall, though. Would you agree?
Hello Angela, this was very interesting, I have never grown blackberries or blueberries, I think I will try to grow some this year, just need to find out which is better for my warmer zone 9b, and were to put them, thanks for sharing and have a great day :)
I believe you can grow rabbit eye blueberries where you are!
@@ParkrosePermaculture thanks Angela, I will check that out
Do you have anything showing your harvest with this method?
Super informative video as always! I planted some triple crown blackberries last year and pruned them to 4 feet high to encourage lateral growth based on the few pruning videos and books i read 😅.. is there a reason you don’t prune yours at all and wait for lateral growth the following year? Still a newbie and want to learn the correct way to approach this ! I garden in zone 6 Ontario canada. Thankyou
Does this method work for marionberries and raspberries as well?
Yes! It absolutely does!
I have about 30 canes that were so thick I am planning on using them to make a rustic looking trellis…or maybe just tie them together and make some bee houses.
Those are great ideas of making use of a “waste item”!
Turning them into biochar is another way to repurpose them.
Thanks. I think blackberries probably won't fit in my yard based on this information. All well. They're not my top priority. At some point I'd like to containerize some raspberries though.
What variety of bush cherry is that please?