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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: rowlandwells on October 16, 2021, 19:32

Title: blackberries
Post by: rowlandwells on October 16, 2021, 19:32

we had some good pickings of our blackberry bush this year and now autumn  is fast coming  up on us the wife asked  me how do i prune my blackberry bush good question don't know  :( so  Il ask some of our member that do how do you prune blackberries  :unsure:

Title: Re: blackberries
Post by: mumofstig on October 16, 2021, 23:29

John explains how to do it, here
https://www.allotment-garden.org/fruit/blackberries-growing/


I'm not organised enough to use the one side, then the other side the next year. I just cut away any branches that have fuited this year, and then tie in the new growth ready for it to fruit next year, I did mine a week or so ago. If you leave it a bit later the old growth tend to look a bit brown and woodier, so it is easy to see what you have to cut away.