[chillimummy]

Hi took over plot last year and not until early spring this year that we found blackberries starting to grow where cleared weeds. Told previous owner of plot always planted really nice fruit so pinned branches we found to very temporary wooden fruit frame!
Have had small crop. Some nice but lots sour. Not in best position either.
Wonder whether worth moving them or buying new? Some very vicious thorns on some of them!
Have read you can buy thornless variety
Wondered if any one has advise or recommendations for tasty varities   
Thanks
 

[gobs]

Thornless variety is a hybrid, a very different taste. No blackberry...

If no other means, buy a good, tasty one, you like and multiply with years.

[mumofstig]

I can recommend Boysenberry, I think it tastes like a good Blackberry - but it's thornless 

[Nobbie]

I'd buy a new thornless blackberry and maybe a thornless Loganberry as well. I've got a thorny loganberry at the moment and I just can't be bother with the pain of trying to tie it in and so will be digging it up this year and replacing. I've also got a Thornless blackberry which is great, but you don't pick when they've just gone black, you need to leave them until they almost fall off in your hand otherwise they have little flavour.

[sunshineband]

Nobbie is quite right -- the thornless ones have to be almost over ripe before they develop a decent flavour.

They cook up alright though.

Loganberries also need to stay on the plant until they are deep purply red of they are very sharp indeed

[chillimummy]

Thanks all. Think will dig them up. Like the sound of loganberry or boysenberry so will investigate 

[chillimummy]

Have been reading instead about a tayberry called buckinghamshire. Sounds tasty and fairly easy to grow. Has anyone grown this?

[VegGirl7]

Wondered if any one has advise or recommendations for tasty varities   
Thanks

to be honest, I don't think you can beat the taste (and abundance) of wild blackberries... 

I'm removing the blackberries from my plot to make space to grow other things - I can collect more from a short walk than I could ever grow on the plot

[compostqueen]

You could dig it up and replant it by the edge of the plot, by the hedge if you have one. I think the brambles taste far better than the cultivars so I'm glad I re-sited some    Having said that I do have a bought one and it took forever to get into its stride and start fruiting, which tasted salty at first, but now the plant has got going and fruits like mad. Still not as good as the hedgerow ones though, in my view, much bigger fruits though

[mumofstig]

Have been reading instead about a tayberry called buckinghamshire. Sounds tasty and fairly easy to grow. Has anyone grown this?

I planted one last Autumn and it's still only about 18ins tall, no fruit yet to try  So I'm not sure about the easy to grow bit

[chillimummy]

Thanks all. Think will dig up existing blackberries and decide then.
Does sound like takes a while for fruit bushes to establish themselves. Perhaps why poor crop from mine this year?
Last year they were in last patch of allotment to dig. Were either covered in black plastic or trampled!
Since had allotment, find it hard to throw anything away