We were growing blueberries at one time, but we never got a harvest. Then we discovered that one of our dogs liked blueberries, and she was "harvesting" them.
If you want new growths of berry plants, one can easily cut a length of the growing stalk, and plant horizontally in the ground (like sugar cane segments). Guaranteed - blackberries and raspberries will sprout of that mother cane - without doing any air-rooting etc. One can also easily bend down a berry vine and burying in the ground for 12-16 inches and the leaf and nodes will all start self-rooting and creating their own daughter plants - just like strawberries throwing off daughter plants and self-seeding them. No need to go out and buy more commercial plants !
@@toosense Leave the leaves, and if you just bend down the green portion of the whole tip into the ground - that is where the plant has the most growth (and rooting) hormone - so no need to trim the tip. Rooting depends on when you buried it, soil type, moisture, temperature, grow zone, etc.
If you cut off segments and plant them in potting soil, compost, fertilizer, and have them in a warm grow house with sunlight on them - you will get excellent quick rooting and growth happening.
- IF - you do use Rootone (rooting hormone) on a buried tip, or a planted segment, only only needs to use a paintbrush and paint the leaf nodes - no need of dipping the whole stalk into the liquid (the stalk doesn't root - only the nodes for leaves, roots, or the fruiting stalk will. One can do the same with the sucker growths of tomatoes, with rootone and start whole new daughter plants for unlimited plant productions. with tuber vegetables and some lettuces/ cabbages etc with the greens kept intact from harvesting the tuber (carrots, leeks ...) or harvest the lettuce/cabbage head from its rooted bottom, one can regrow the vegetable tuber or the head. The rootone incentivizes the cut off tops of carrots etc, or the rooting section of celery, celeriac, carrots, beets, turnips, rutabagas etc - and it will restart growing its tuber ... or the roots and push out a new green head of lettuce etc. Save the seed ! Succession planting and proper gardening throughout the year !
I'm so excited. We are creating a "berry patch" on our new property and we have 4 black berries and 4 blueberry plants right now. We are trying to figure out the trellis we want to use for all. Thank you for another great video. 👍
You just inspired me to try growing blackberries and raspberries. The first time I tried I didn’t have a clue what to do . Now I got some solid info , definitely trying . In my area they aren’t available for purchase till April 🤞
I threw a few random black raspberry stalks in my yard that I found across the street in a ditch and within 3 years I have more berries than I can handle... No watering... No nutrients... Just production lol They truly are "plant and forget" if you get them to establish... And my yard is in zone 5, pure clay, and compact... They thrive and would spread uncontrollably if I let them
Wow Brian has it been that long since you moved to the new place that's so crazy how fast time goes by!! Been following you for awhile now several years!!
Definitely good timing on this video. We will have four different varieties of Raspberry's as well as two varieties of figs arriving in a few days. So always something to learn and of course Thank You for another informative video!
Perfect timing seeing this video, i just got a raspberry bush. I have it in the house right now cause the temps arnt high enough for it to survive outside. But, im very excited, i have a 5 year old blueberry bush and my son just loves picking and eating fresh blueberries. So, im sure he'll love the raspberries as well. Thanks for the info!
Thanks again Brian. on planting rand taking care of raspberries & black berries. O have about 30 plants of raspberries and I definately need to pay more attention to soil and watering.
Brian, On your blueberry video you went into each variety zones and chill hours. I feel this detail is *missing* here on the bramble berries .. I live in a zone 9 -10 and wondering if they're gonna set fruits We get hot temperatures night and day all summer long. Thank you Mishmish
Thank you Brian, l would have looked at that pot that you were 'rooting' around in, pun intended, and thought it was a lost cause. Best wishes Jason from Melbourne Australia.
We bought a home 2 years ago and to our surprise our first summer, we had 3 young Navajo blackberries & a blue jay blueberry bush along our fence! We’ve gotten a good bit of blackberries last summer, hoping for even more this year! 🤞blueberry bush hasnt fruited I think it needs moved somewhere with more sun bc the blackberries kinda shade it out, it has gotten way bigger though
Strong suggestion to plant more local blueberry bushes - as cross-pollination (flowers and fruits) happen with a colony of bushes than a singular alone and lonely bush making its own produce.
@@MikeDawson1 the previous owners left the tags hanging on the trellises. We didn’t even notice them when looking at the home in October and closed the beginning of January so it was a nice surprise the following Spring haha
I planted dwarf thornless blackberries and raspberries last year in a planters made from a plastic 55 gallon barrel since I like container gardening. The blackberries did well and had lots of growth. Them raspberries didnt do as well and may not have survived the winter in 5b. If they didnt Im going to plant more blackberries. I also plan on starting blackberry plants from cuttings later in the year and place them in large grow bags.
Heritage has thorns. that's what we have. always use gloves to pick the berries & long sleeves! i love Heritage cuz you can prune to get 2 harvests and really love the flavor
Great video thanks, I bought 2 raspberry plants and a blackberry last year, have been in pots, hopefully survived the winter and I can plant out, I haven't looked at them in a few weeks, been too busy with starts.
Hi Brian, thank you for this very educational video about growing blackberries and raspberries! I have just potted a blackberry cutting in a 15 gallon pot yesterday, do you think it will do fine in the pot or should I put it in the ground?
I see many comments about failures with these plants. Blackberries, blueberries, raspberries and grapes all struggle with wet feet at night causing root rot/damage. Water them all day but stop at 2 or 3 in the afternoon so they have a chance to dry out a bit and go to sleep without soaked roots. We grow them in bags. We actually measure how much goes into the bag, and how much comes out of the bag. We aim for about 1/3rd drain, adjusted as the plant gets bigger ie 6 litres go in, 2 litres come out. If we get that consistently, we are pretty happy. We spread this out across the day (with a timer obviously), but always shut off after the temp starts to drop in the afternoon so the roots have a chance to dry out. I love my rants, sorry everybody....
What size bag do you use? I've seen people suggesting anywhere from 10 gallons and up. Some say minimum 15 gallons, and one lady did a video with 25 gallons and said she actually prefers 50 gallons.
@@aimeepeltier4489 We have our blackberries and raspberries in about a 2.2 gallon pot (2 plants per bag), blueberries in 7.5 gallon pots. This probably is aided by not having cold weather here at all, ever, so no risk of small bags freezing. Also we irrigate every hour. If you want less watering then probably a bigger bag would be better. In my home garden I grow everything in 30 litre fabric pots and that is fine to water just about four times a day.
Primocane raspberries fruit on new wood. Heritage is a fall primocane variety. Floricane raspberries fruit on last year's wood. Different pruning is required. Check berry plant sellers for which are which and pruning.
I watched on TH-cam...can't remember which vlogger, but that's how I figured out most of my aquired canes (from local Community garden) are Fall bearing🙄 I grew up w/raspberries, didn't realize there were so many varieties. Mine are also tall/thin and I can't keep them within my wires (go between and lean over, despite 'training'). Definitely not the variety I knew, which grew straight and sturdy.
I had a question about the laundry hamper strawberry setup: - do you remove the 3rd/4th year strawberry plants from their laundry hamper holes? Or keep as is and let it degrade/die? - as you replant the runners, how much space should be between each plant? Can every other hole of the laundry hamper be filled with strawberry plants/runners? - what do you do with the gaping hole of the fabric for the removed old strawberry plant if you do decide to go down that route? plant another one in there immediately? - do you need to cover the sides of the laundry hamper for winter? I am planning to store mine outside (zone 8b) in my undercover patio. Just wondering what steps I would need to do to winterize it!
If you just want to be a penny pincher - find your local neighbors with their blackberries and raspberries. Buy some handfuls of berries from them and "Johnny Berry Seeder" ... plant those berries in a suitable hoed or tilled, aerated, and soft-soiled area, fence line, trellis, ... and later multiple sprouting berry plants will come up. Add some fertilizer and voila - nearly-free berry vineyard ! Within 2 years you will have full adolescent and fruiting berry vines with their deep rooted structures in the ground. Just keep pruned and trellised - and they will keep producing into old age (and shooting off daughter plants in the interim.
OH HECK YEAH BRIAN, JUST IN TIME. WE HAVE POTTING SOIL AND COW MANURE BUT DON'T KNOW WHAT RATIO. THEN WE HAVE FERTILIZER. APPRECIATE ANY HELP. THANK YOU. LOVE YALL ❤
Just use a shovel to cut them off when they get too far away from the original position. You can save them or compost them. It isn’t a big deal, just keep up on it.
Good Morning Brian, going through your videos I can't find one for Okra. Mine are ready to go into the ground. What do I need at this point to get them in and have success this year?
I enjoy all the great information on plants. I am wondering if you've ever used a green stalk? I bought one and I want to plant strawberries in mine. Any tips?
I am a newbie gardener. I have a very small yard that doesn't get much sunlight. Can you tell me what I can plant that will grow with these conditions. I live in the lower end of Alberta Canada. We can have a frost as late in the year as May. What types of fruits or vegetables would you suggest I grow. Also, what would be good to grow on a deck/balcony that gets sun on half the balcony most of the day? I appreciate any answers that you could provide to me. Thank you.
I watched your video from a couple of years ago when I planted my blackberries last year. I tied them to one side of my trellis as instructed, but then forgot the instructions to cut the canes down part way through the season, so now they are very long. Will it do any good to cut them back now, in the spring? Will I still end up with a small harvest because I missed this step last year?
I have a cross hatched trellis. I'm not finding anything online about people using this as a trellis system. Is this frowned upon? Should I not use a crosshatch trellis for blackberries?
Hi there Brian thank you for the excellent video as usual. This is kind of a dumb question but I am using the Neptune's Harvest Fertilizer that you recommended in all of your videos for the first time this year and bought the liquid tomato and veg fertilizer and was wondering when I do start fertilizing do I water first and then fertilize after or fertilize first and then water and play latest certain amount of time in between each one thank you
The biggest connection most people don't know is that commercial blackberry stalks are different than the native American blackberry - and especially the thick and invasive Himalayan blackberry. The native has a green and pencil-thin reddish stalk and relatively small bushes and not viney (unless they can grabbed onto something and climb up - same for poison oak bushes or vines !!!). Commercials are mostly green stalked and also slightly larger than natives. It is the huge finger-thick and thorny brilliant green stalked Himalayans that are invasive - but when properly kept pruned and trellised for LONGGGG lengths of trellissing (like grape vines !), they can be great producers with the local honey bee et al population pollenating them (and keeping them off the ground for birds to scavenge your harvest from you).
I am sorry to bother you again. I do have a question about seedlings. Do I have to water my seedlings first a little bit before I use liquid fertilizer? The soil is dry now. I did get the liquid fertilizer that you recommended and I know about half strength, I am just wonderful it’s ok to fertilize when the soil is dry Thank you
I planted thornless blackberries 2 years ago. Super productive wonderful harvest last year. Pruned everything last fall. Rabbits invaded my yard over the Winter and chewed the bark off on most of the canes. They didn’t touch the raspberries, I’m assuming because of the thorns. Is there any solution for this other than fencing?
It depends, if your winters are hard and the rabbits are hungry, only a fence will work. If they are not very hungry, try some other means of deterring them.
Hello Mr. NLG WE have Apache Thornless blackberries from U of Arkansas. they do well most of the time but this year most of the blossom centers have turned black and are not forming berries. Do you have diagnosis? Thank you if you do take the call !!
I'm in Arizona, near Phoenix, and tried growing raspberries and they just died immediately. I may try again now that I've seen this. I would like to see a video on growing grapes. I am on my 4th try now, and the best I can say is that they're not dead yet. No new chutes, no new leaves, no growth at all after about 3 months. I'm watering a LOT less than before because I think I overwatered them before.
@moth orchid I think I'm in zone 9b. Thanks for the info, I didn't even think about mulching it but I will do that. Can't remember what kind of grapes I have, but they're green seedless. I love grapes and would really like to be able to grow my own. The ones in the store are just HORRIBLE - always very bitter. I can't imagine why anyone would willingly pay for them. Thanks again for the info. I will keep at it and appreciate any help I can get.
Heritage raspberry is very thorny. Small berries. I hate it. I grow thornless *Joan J* raspberries. My favorite out of the many varieties I've tried. Large berries, everbearing, and very high yield, tastes better than Heritage.
I started a Joan J raspberry last summer and it did great in a container and was very productive! However I did forget to prune in the fall after harvesting so I had to prune last week and hope it doesn't affect it's growth too much. I'm in zone 6b
With (at least) 17 commercial blackberry species and 23 raspberry species you can easily find your desired berry producer. - In fact, if you just go out in the wilds, forest edges, farm fence lines (where birds drop their berry poo) and dig up a strong contender blackberry plant. They are far more strong and onery than commercial plants - and most-likely will over-produce for you (mutual appreciation) in a nice, heavenly, fertilized location than their original rough and harsh location. - When pruning, make sure you know your blackberry and raspberry cane pruning protocols. Some canes produce on first growths, while others grow on second growths. Do neuter yourself and the plants by counter-productive pruning the fruiting canes.
Ave a love hate relationship with blackberries. I eat their ripe fruit and then spray with brushkillerxt. They are hard to kill and every piece of cane self sets. A grazing farmers nightmare. They are not fussy about poor soils.
Omg olallieberry! I’m trying to eradicate them as they took over. Mom had them, they were gone for over 25 yrs and I came in w 4” of compost and built a new garden there. One little shoot came up, so I thought I’d leave it as an homage to mom. Then I broke both of my legs and couldn’t get back out into the garden for over six months. They took over the entire side of my house. Rooting wherever they touched the ground. Why anybody would buy barbed wire when they could just plant these I’ll never know. I even resorted to round up and it just laughed at me. After the big atmospheric river we are getting tomorrow, I’m going to just try to see if I can rip them out with a hoe. Trying to eradicate them has been a multi year project, so far me zero, olallieberries 110,000,000. I’m curious, are yours seedless? These are not, so not that easy to eat. Mom just took a cutting from the side of the road and poof, here they are. And they came back from, I kid you not, a bare yard for no less than 25 yrs! Just hiding there under the ground…waiting. I’m glad you have experience with them to keep them in check.
We were growing blueberries at one time, but we never got a harvest. Then we discovered that one of our dogs liked blueberries, and she was "harvesting" them.
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If you want new growths of berry plants, one can easily cut a length of the growing stalk, and plant horizontally in the ground (like sugar cane segments). Guaranteed - blackberries and raspberries will sprout of that mother cane - without doing any air-rooting etc. One can also easily bend down a berry vine and burying in the ground for 12-16 inches and the leaf and nodes will all start self-rooting and creating their own daughter plants - just like strawberries throwing off daughter plants and self-seeding them. No need to go out and buy more commercial plants !
Hi. If you bend down the vine and plant it, should you trim the end off or leave it as is? How long does it take to root?
@@toosense Leave the leaves, and if you just bend down the green portion of the whole tip into the ground - that is where the plant has the most growth (and rooting) hormone - so no need to trim the tip. Rooting depends on when you buried it, soil type, moisture, temperature, grow zone, etc.
If you cut off segments and plant them in potting soil, compost, fertilizer, and have them in a warm grow house with sunlight on them - you will get excellent quick rooting and growth happening.
- IF - you do use Rootone (rooting hormone) on a buried tip, or a planted segment, only only needs to use a paintbrush and paint the leaf nodes - no need of dipping the whole stalk into the liquid (the stalk doesn't root - only the nodes for leaves, roots, or the fruiting stalk will.
One can do the same with the sucker growths of tomatoes, with rootone and start whole new daughter plants for unlimited plant productions.
with tuber vegetables and some lettuces/ cabbages etc with the greens kept intact from harvesting the tuber (carrots, leeks ...) or harvest the lettuce/cabbage head from its rooted bottom, one can regrow the vegetable tuber or the head. The rootone incentivizes the cut off tops of carrots etc, or the rooting section of celery, celeriac, carrots, beets, turnips, rutabagas etc - and it will restart growing its tuber ... or the roots and push out a new green head of lettuce etc. Save the seed ! Succession planting and proper gardening throughout the year !
You don’t even need rooting hormone, it increases the speed and the likelihood but plant 10 canes and at least 5 will grow regardless
we live in the south and blackberries grow wild everywhere! my husband just goes over them with the lawnmower and they always come back lol
Here in Idaho also, I always cringe when I see people intentionally planting them lol.
I just ordered some blackberry plants last night. Thank you, Brian. Now I know the proper way to plant them.
Perfect timing as I just ordered some Arapaho blackberries. They should be here on the 15th. Can’t wait to get them growing.
I'm so excited. We are creating a "berry patch" on our new property and we have 4 black berries and 4 blueberry plants right now. We are trying to figure out the trellis we want to use for all. Thank you for another great video. 👍
We are making a berry tunnel. 20ft rebar and 2x4 wire fence. I can stand with about 2 ft above my head I'm 6 foot
So excited for this video I just purchased raspberries. Thank you perfect timing.
This is the most specific and detailed tutorial i found here ytube. Thanks!
Hopefully will start black berries and raspberries this year. Marking all your berry videos for easy reference. Thank you!!!! Blessings ❤️🌺
You just inspired me to try growing blackberries and raspberries. The first time I tried I didn’t have a clue what to do . Now I got some solid info , definitely trying . In my area they aren’t available for purchase till April 🤞
I threw a few random black raspberry stalks in my yard that I found across the street in a ditch and within 3 years I have more berries than I can handle... No watering... No nutrients... Just production lol
They truly are "plant and forget" if you get them to establish... And my yard is in zone 5, pure clay, and compact... They thrive and would spread uncontrollably if I let them
hi, can i ask...what time of year do you do this?...must be some season preferable to do this, thank you
@@eannaMullarkey Early spring. So about now.
You can plant before last frost date if they’re still dormant but if there sprouting wait until after threat of frost in late spring for zone 5s
Wow Brian has it been that long since you moved to the new place that's so crazy how fast time goes by!! Been following you for awhile now several years!!
Definitely good timing on this video. We will have four different varieties of Raspberry's as well as two varieties of figs arriving in a few days. So always something to learn and of course Thank You for another informative video!
Perfect timing seeing this video, i just got a raspberry bush. I have it in the house right now cause the temps arnt high enough for it to survive outside. But, im very excited, i have a 5 year old blueberry bush and my son just loves picking and eating fresh blueberries. So, im sure he'll love the raspberries as well. Thanks for the info!
Thank you so much! I am always grateful to learn as much as I can.
Thanks again Brian. on planting rand taking care of raspberries & black berries. O have about 30 plants of raspberries and I definately need to pay more attention to soil and watering.
Another amazing vlogg really enjoyed this planting session. Damien garden channel from Ireland
Brian,
On your blueberry video you went into each variety zones and chill hours.
I feel this detail is *missing* here on the bramble berries ..
I live in a zone 9 -10 and wondering if they're gonna set fruits
We get hot temperatures night and day all summer long.
Thank you
Mishmish
Thank you Brian, l would have looked at that pot that you were 'rooting' around in, pun intended, and thought it was a lost cause. Best wishes Jason from Melbourne Australia.
Had a wild Black barry patch in a cleaing behind my house growing up. Good times when it was picking time
What a beautiful area you live in.
We bought a home 2 years ago and to our surprise our first summer, we had 3 young Navajo blackberries & a blue jay blueberry bush along our fence! We’ve gotten a good bit of blackberries last summer, hoping for even more this year! 🤞blueberry bush hasnt fruited I think it needs moved somewhere with more sun bc the blackberries kinda shade it out, it has gotten way bigger though
Strong suggestion to plant more local blueberry bushes - as cross-pollination (flowers and fruits) happen with a colony of bushes than a singular alone and lonely bush making its own produce.
@@johnlord8337 thanks for the tip! I’ll grab a couple from our local nursery 😊
how did you figure out they were Navajo variety?
@@MikeDawson1 the previous owners left the tags hanging on the trellises. We didn’t even notice them when looking at the home in October and closed the beginning of January so it was a nice surprise the following Spring haha
I planted dwarf thornless blackberries and raspberries last year in a planters made from a plastic 55 gallon barrel since I like container gardening. The blackberries did well and had lots of growth. Them raspberries didnt do as well and may not have survived the winter in 5b. If they didnt Im going to plant more blackberries. I also plan on starting blackberry plants from cuttings later in the year and place them in large grow bags.
Heritage has thorns. that's what we have. always use gloves to pick the berries & long sleeves! i love Heritage cuz you can prune to get 2 harvests and really love the flavor
I think people need to know whether they are summer or autumn fruiting Raspberries, the pruning is very different.
We have the thorny blackberries here in BC that seem to grow everywhere. We have some growing near us near the forest across from our house.
Great video thanks, I bought 2 raspberry plants and a blackberry last year, have been in pots, hopefully survived the winter and I can plant out, I haven't looked at them in a few weeks, been too busy with starts.
There has to be 200 feet between red and black berry beds one will kill out the other. Found this out the hard way.
What about using water changes from a pond to water garden beds? That seems like it'd be a great natural nutrients
Thank you for the information! What is the benefit of the "thorny" berries? I love the thorn less blackberries - the care, picking & taste!
Great info! Thanks Brian
Hi Brian, thank you for this very educational video about growing blackberries and raspberries! I have just potted a blackberry cutting in a 15 gallon pot yesterday, do you think it will do fine in the pot or should I put it in the ground?
Thank you again for another great video
I see many comments about failures with these plants. Blackberries, blueberries, raspberries and grapes all struggle with wet feet at night causing root rot/damage. Water them all day but stop at 2 or 3 in the afternoon so they have a chance to dry out a bit and go to sleep without soaked roots. We grow them in bags. We actually measure how much goes into the bag, and how much comes out of the bag. We aim for about 1/3rd drain, adjusted as the plant gets bigger ie 6 litres go in, 2 litres come out. If we get that consistently, we are pretty happy. We spread this out across the day (with a timer obviously), but always shut off after the temp starts to drop in the afternoon so the roots have a chance to dry out.
I love my rants, sorry everybody....
What size bag do you use? I've seen people suggesting anywhere from 10 gallons and up. Some say minimum 15 gallons, and one lady did a video with 25 gallons and said she actually prefers 50 gallons.
@@aimeepeltier4489 We have our blackberries and raspberries in about a 2.2 gallon pot (2 plants per bag), blueberries in 7.5 gallon pots. This probably is aided by not having cold weather here at all, ever, so no risk of small bags freezing. Also we irrigate every hour. If you want less watering then probably a bigger bag would be better. In my home garden I grow everything in 30 litre fabric pots and that is fine to water just about four times a day.
Cool! Thanks Brian! At the last house I had my blackberries full of beetles, it was ridiculous! How do you prevent that?
Primocane raspberries fruit on new wood. Heritage is a fall primocane variety. Floricane raspberries fruit on last year's wood. Different pruning is required. Check berry plant sellers for which are which and pruning.
I watched on TH-cam...can't remember which vlogger, but that's how I figured out most of my aquired canes (from local Community garden) are Fall bearing🙄 I grew up w/raspberries, didn't realize there were so many varieties. Mine are also tall/thin and I can't keep them within my wires (go between and lean over, despite 'training'). Definitely not the variety I knew, which grew straight and sturdy.
I had a question about the laundry hamper strawberry setup:
- do you remove the 3rd/4th year strawberry plants from their laundry hamper holes? Or keep as is and let it degrade/die?
- as you replant the runners, how much space should be between each plant? Can every other hole of the laundry hamper be filled with strawberry plants/runners?
- what do you do with the gaping hole of the fabric for the removed old strawberry plant if you do decide to go down that route? plant another one in there immediately?
- do you need to cover the sides of the laundry hamper for winter? I am planning to store mine outside (zone 8b) in my undercover patio. Just wondering what steps I would need to do to winterize it!
I planted some container blackberry's last spring myself there The thornless kind they just starting to put on foliage I hope yours do well
If you just want to be a penny pincher - find your local neighbors with their blackberries and raspberries. Buy some handfuls of berries from them and "Johnny Berry Seeder" ... plant those berries in a suitable hoed or tilled, aerated, and soft-soiled area, fence line, trellis, ... and later multiple sprouting berry plants will come up. Add some fertilizer and voila - nearly-free berry vineyard ! Within 2 years you will have full adolescent and fruiting berry vines with their deep rooted structures in the ground. Just keep pruned and trellised - and they will keep producing into old age (and shooting off daughter plants in the interim.
OH HECK YEAH BRIAN, JUST IN TIME. WE HAVE POTTING SOIL AND COW MANURE BUT DON'T KNOW WHAT RATIO. THEN WE HAVE FERTILIZER. APPRECIATE ANY HELP. THANK YOU. LOVE YALL ❤
Thank you.
The leaves on my blackberries are turning brown. I'm not sure if that means too much or too little water. I'm new to blackberries. Help please 😢
Are you thinking about growing currents?
Good video
Thank you
Can you talk about how to keep them from taking over outside of the trellis area? Can you bury pots to contain them?
Just use a shovel to cut them off when they get too far away from the original position. You can save them or compost them. It isn’t a big deal, just keep up on it.
Would raspberries benefit from coffee grounds placed into the soil?
Good Morning Brian, going through your videos I can't find one for Okra. Mine are ready to go into the ground. What do I need at this point to get them in and have success this year?
Do you have any blueberry trimming videos? I’m in Connecticut and planted 6 last year need some direction
I enjoy all the great information on plants. I am wondering if you've ever used a green stalk? I bought one and I want to plant strawberries in mine. Any tips?
I'm sure this reply is not from his site.
Thank you Brian. Your not concerned about them suckering all over the place? ❄️💚🙃
In Oregon they're considered an invasive noxious weed..
I had the understanding that canes had to go through a freeze before fruiting
I am a newbie gardener. I have a very small yard that doesn't get much sunlight. Can you tell me what I can plant that will grow with these conditions. I live in the lower end of Alberta Canada. We can have a frost as late in the year as May. What types of fruits or vegetables would you suggest I grow. Also, what would be good to grow on a deck/balcony that gets sun on half the balcony most of the day? I appreciate any answers that you could provide to me. Thank you.
Olallie berries are the BEST!!!
I watched your video from a couple of years ago when I planted my blackberries last year. I tied them to one side of my trellis as instructed, but then forgot the instructions to cut the canes down part way through the season, so now they are very long. Will it do any good to cut them back now, in the spring? Will I still end up with a small harvest because I missed this step last year?
I have a cross hatched trellis. I'm not finding anything online about people using this as a trellis system. Is this frowned upon? Should I not use a crosshatch trellis for blackberries?
So will erect thorny blackberry vines i bough at Walmart produce berries this same year if I fertilize them right or will it be next year?
Hi there Brian thank you for the excellent video as usual. This is kind of a dumb question but I am using the Neptune's Harvest Fertilizer that you recommended in all of your videos for the first time this year and bought the liquid tomato and veg fertilizer and was wondering when I do start fertilizing do I water first and then fertilize after or fertilize first and then water and play latest certain amount of time in between each one thank you
You can do this with blackberry seeds or raspberry seeds
I was told not to plant black or raspberries close together because of cross pollination? Getting ready to plant.
I wondered about that too
The biggest connection most people don't know is that commercial blackberry stalks are different than the native American blackberry - and especially the thick and invasive Himalayan blackberry. The native has a green and pencil-thin reddish stalk and relatively small bushes and not viney (unless they can grabbed onto something and climb up - same for poison oak bushes or vines !!!). Commercials are mostly green stalked and also slightly larger than natives. It is the huge finger-thick and thorny brilliant green stalked Himalayans that are invasive - but when properly kept pruned and trellised for LONGGGG lengths of trellissing (like grape vines !), they can be great producers with the local honey bee et al population pollenating them (and keeping them off the ground for birds to scavenge your harvest from you).
Wow. Thx
How much sun do they need?
All sun
I am sorry to bother you again. I do have a question about seedlings. Do I have to water my seedlings first a little bit before I use liquid fertilizer? The soil is dry now. I did get the liquid fertilizer that you recommended and I know about half strength, I am just wonderful it’s ok to fertilize when the soil is dry
Thank you
I planted thornless blackberries 2 years ago. Super productive wonderful harvest last year. Pruned everything last fall. Rabbits invaded my yard over the Winter and chewed the bark off on most of the canes. They didn’t touch the raspberries, I’m assuming because of the thorns. Is there any solution for this other than fencing?
It depends, if your winters are hard and the rabbits are hungry, only a fence will work. If they are not very hungry, try some other means of deterring them.
Hello Mr. NLG
WE have Apache Thornless blackberries from U of Arkansas. they do well most of the time but this year most of the blossom centers have turned black and are not forming berries.
Do you have diagnosis?
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I'm in Arizona, near Phoenix, and tried growing raspberries and they just died immediately. I may try again now that I've seen this.
I would like to see a video on growing grapes. I am on my 4th try now, and the best I can say is that they're not dead yet. No new chutes, no new leaves, no growth at all after about 3 months. I'm watering a LOT less than before because I think I overwatered them before.
@moth orchid I think I'm in zone 9b. Thanks for the info, I didn't even think about mulching it but I will do that. Can't remember what kind of grapes I have, but they're green seedless. I love grapes and would really like to be able to grow my own. The ones in the store are just HORRIBLE - always very bitter. I can't imagine why anyone would willingly pay for them.
Thanks again for the info. I will keep at it and appreciate any help I can get.
@9:07 - I thought that only "Primocane" varieties fruit on first year growth
I just learned.. if it's green after it fruited leave it alone if it's brown cut it down.
mine send out new growth under ground, too hard to keep them contained, I going to start digging up the extras and move to another location
How do you make them sweeter??
How do handle (or do you have) deer?
Can you grow berries that will produce in a pot?
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Where are you gardening?
Heritage raspberry is very thorny. Small berries. I hate it.
I grow thornless *Joan J* raspberries. My favorite out of the many varieties I've tried. Large berries, everbearing, and very high yield, tastes better than Heritage.
I started a Joan J raspberry last summer and it did great in a container and was very productive! However I did forget to prune in the fall after harvesting so I had to prune last week and hope it doesn't affect it's growth too much. I'm in zone 6b
Wouldn't it be good to talk about containing berries? They can be locally invasive and spread underground in any direction...
You said something about 3rd year no fruit? Expand please
why would put shade net behind? berries don't like sun?
Have you ever heard that cut hair is good for nitrogen?
With (at least) 17 commercial blackberry species and 23 raspberry species you can easily find your desired berry producer.
- In fact, if you just go out in the wilds, forest edges, farm fence lines (where birds drop their berry poo) and dig up a strong contender blackberry plant. They are far more strong and onery than commercial plants - and most-likely will over-produce for you (mutual appreciation) in a nice, heavenly, fertilized location than their original rough and harsh location.
- When pruning, make sure you know your blackberry and raspberry cane pruning protocols. Some canes produce on first growths, while others grow on second growths. Do neuter yourself and the plants by counter-productive pruning the fruiting canes.
You're crazy. I'm in Oregon and I have a constant battle with blackberries. They are weeds
#HowToPlantBlackberriesAndRaspberries
Ave a love hate relationship with blackberries. I eat their ripe fruit and then spray with brushkillerxt. They are hard to kill and every piece of cane self sets. A grazing farmers nightmare. They are not fussy about poor soils.
You need THICK gloves while working with thorny blackberries!
And long sleeves! Leather gloves work best
I love to see the dirty knees on your jeans. My husband always calls me "Pig Pen" when I come in from happily spending all day digging in the gardens.
Omg olallieberry! I’m trying to eradicate them as they took over. Mom had them, they were gone for over 25 yrs and I came in w 4” of compost and built a new garden there. One little shoot came up, so I thought I’d leave it as an homage to mom. Then I broke both of my legs and couldn’t get back out into the garden for over six months. They took over the entire side of my house. Rooting wherever they touched the ground. Why anybody would buy barbed wire when they could just plant these I’ll never know. I even resorted to round up and it just laughed at me. After the big atmospheric river we are getting tomorrow, I’m going to just try to see if I can rip them out with a hoe. Trying to eradicate them has been a multi year project, so far me zero, olallieberries 110,000,000.
I’m curious, are yours seedless? These are not, so not that easy to eat. Mom just took a cutting from the side of the road and poof, here they are. And they came back from, I kid you not, a bare yard for no less than 25 yrs! Just hiding there under the ground…waiting. I’m glad you have experience with them to keep them in check.
LOL someone needs help growing Raspberries and Blackberries?
well, two minutes into the video i havent learned anything at all about how to grow blackberries and raspberries.