Hi Kitty HI Kitty Hi Kitty! Michael! amazing garden you have going there, saw your other answer about seeing which ones thrive best, so smart! I am going to be developing more mounds in my garden but reason totally different. It's because we've had such intense downpours, with garden flooding much worse than ever before, so in order to get plants up elevated. I admire your focus on just berries? nothing else like tomatoes or ?
Hi Karen! I do have some tomatoes as well, I do like them so I will probably always grow a few varieties every year, but for some reason I'm obsessed with blackberries so that's really what I want the most of. Since I don't have a huge backyard, need to maximize my happiness-to-space ratio for every plant. It was actually for that reason that I dumped most of my strawberry plants - they did make me happy, but not compared to the amount of space they took up since I was growing them in containers. Perhaps in the future I can grow strawberries under the blackberry bushes for some "free" real estate?
I'm near Dallas, Texas, so zone 8b (or 8a on the 90's map). My long-term goals are to identify which varieties taste the best to me and grow the best in my area (i.e. don't die in the 105+ degree heat, and have berries that don't scorch in the sun), and then plant them in-ground along the fenceline. Also considering some kind of raised bed along the middle of the back yard with more, but also afraid it would make containing the spread even harder so I'm trying to think of ways to have a raised bed while preventing them from escaping out the bottom of it
Hi Kitty HI Kitty Hi Kitty! Michael! amazing garden you have going there, saw your other answer about seeing which ones thrive best, so smart! I am going to be developing more mounds in my garden but reason totally different. It's because we've had such intense downpours, with garden flooding much worse than ever before, so in order to get plants up elevated.
I admire your focus on just berries? nothing else like tomatoes or ?
Hi Karen! I do have some tomatoes as well, I do like them so I will probably always grow a few varieties every year, but for some reason I'm obsessed with blackberries so that's really what I want the most of. Since I don't have a huge backyard, need to maximize my happiness-to-space ratio for every plant. It was actually for that reason that I dumped most of my strawberry plants - they did make me happy, but not compared to the amount of space they took up since I was growing them in containers. Perhaps in the future I can grow strawberries under the blackberry bushes for some "free" real estate?
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What are your long term goals? Do you plane on putting these in the ground? What is your zone?
I'm near Dallas, Texas, so zone 8b (or 8a on the 90's map). My long-term goals are to identify which varieties taste the best to me and grow the best in my area (i.e. don't die in the 105+ degree heat, and have berries that don't scorch in the sun), and then plant them in-ground along the fenceline. Also considering some kind of raised bed along the middle of the back yard with more, but also afraid it would make containing the spread even harder so I'm trying to think of ways to have a raised bed while preventing them from escaping out the bottom of it