pruning back blackberries early season...

majorcatfish

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thank you everyone..... it has taken years to get where they are now and some tweaking as well.


monty... it would be nice to have a stickie on this, need to get the whole growing season photographed first need then need to edit it...

skeeter it was nothing to put this together, enjoy sharing.

honeycomb blackberries and raspberries cultivated or wild do not get along together and need to be planted in separate areas away from each other <diseases>

baymule or anyone if you want to start growing them look into growing bush type blackberries if you have high temperatures early on.
 

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Uh oh! We planted our raspberries interspersed with our blackberries. :he Sheesh - now we have to dig something up and rework our plan. Good grief! :barnie
 

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Skeeter, don't fret raspberries will send off shoots/suckers next spring off the primocanes.
If you careful while digging them up you can propagate them as long as you get plenty of root.
Place them in a gallon pot and keep them out of the direct sun and kept watered, by mid summer
You will be able to plant them. The following year you should start getting berries.

Sometimes our best plans backfire
 

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Well, that's good news. We will give it a try and hope for the best. I'm definitely one of those people who fits the description, "the best laid plans of mice and men. . ." :p
 

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do need make a correction...

you will not get any new plants off the primocanes....

in the spring you are going to see around the root system of the raspberry plants, little raspberry plants coming up<guess you could call them suckers> those are the ones you want to transplant....

sorry if i mis-lead anyone..

we are thinking about growing raspberries again.....
 

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majorcatfish, thanks so very much. I think I now understand more of what to do with that growing jungle of mine. I'm so looking forward to a lot of sweet berries next year.
Jo-Ann
 

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Not as goo as yours, Major but yummy.
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