[mumofstig]

On my small plot, in one of the beds is a 'plant' that looks very much like a blackberry to me. The OBs said it was a tayberry cutting planted there last year.
Is this what a tayberry grows like....cos the canes are enormous with evil prickles? Some of the flowers have set, so I'll find out later what sort of berry it is.

My question is......is the growth very vigorous on a tayberry, and do you get a reliable good yield for the amount of space it will take up and is the flavour worth it?
Basically...... is it  worth keeping?.... bearing in mind that there is no shortage of blackberries for free locally

[Spana]

I love tayberries.  They are larger, longer and sweeter than blackberries, and red.  If it is a tayberry i would keep it They are very stong growers

[SG6]

Crop is pretty good, not a plentiful as a blackberry in my experience. Nice flavor, bit sharper. And one of the most evil set of thorns you can get. Cannot recall if loganberry is worse. One of them has thorns on the leaves as well.

Makes great jam.

[goodegg]

got tayberries in the greenhouse when they are really ripe  they are allmost black and very tasty a lot nicer than blackberries and logans there are some with prickles and some without well worth keeping there delish they are id say the best fruit on a prickly plant but they must be really ripe the only problem with them, the birds love them

[mumofstig]

This is embarrasing   cos when I went to the plot today I found the evil prickles belong to a different cane.....which is probably a wild blackberry..doh!

The very long canes are prickle free..........so if that is a tayberry it can stay, but it will have to be moved. In the new plan it would be in the middle of the potato bed if it stayed where it is

[New shoot]

Tayberrys are usually prickly beyond belief and loganberrys are usually thornless.  There also cultivated blackberries which are thornless just to add to the confusion 

I love loganberries as my mum had one on her garden and I used to nick them when I was little, but they are on the sharp side and most prefer them cooked with sugar.  Tayberries just beg to be eaten straight off the canes 

[sunshineband]

It does sound more like a loganberry like New Shoot says tbh

Stiil worth keeping especially as it is already established. One garden we had we grew one along wires at the side of the garden, only about 3 ft high. Makes great jam 

[mumofstig]

So I might even  have a tayberry and a loganberry.......if I have a prickly and a smooth one! they are side by side at the end of one of the beds so the prickly one may not be a wild blackberry which I assumed 

Oh dear.....I'll just have to wait and see what the fruit is like on each 1  

[sunshineband]

They should both have flowers on about now, so hopefully will fruit well for you 

[white westie]

Hello i have a tayberry bought it back in march and planted it in the garden seems to be growing good.Can i just ask do they grow better in the greenhouse then?Do you have to cut them back in the winter?Thankyou.

[lacewing]

The tayberry is a cross between a blackberry and a raspberry. The best way to grow them is to  train the plant along wires between two posts. The posts should be 6' tall and the wires set 2'apart. Tayberries fruit on the previous years wood and these canes should be trained along the two bottom wires, the new shoots growing up from the ground should be tied in, taken up the centre and along the top wires. The fruting canes are cut back to groung level after harvest, the new canes are then drpopped down to the two bottom wires, for fruting the following year. If the plant is left untrained it gets into a tangled mess and makes picking the fruit difficult. A well trained, mature tayberry plant, will produce up to 20lb of delicious fruit each year. Provided it's fed and watered of course!     

[mollydog]

A well trained, mature tayberry plant, will produce up to 20lb of delicious fruit each year. Provided it's fed and watered of course!     

Sorry to bump this thread but it seemed ok  to ask, what do you think it's best to feed berry plants with . I was told only to give them a well rotted manure mulch in early spring

 

[realfood]

And just to complicate matters, there is a thornless variant of the tayberry, called the "Buckingham tayberry" in existance.

[lacewing]

A well trained, mature tayberry plant, will produce up to 20lb of delicious fruit each year. Provided it's fed and watered of course!     

Sorry to bump this thread but it seemed ok  to ask, what do you think it's best to feed berry plants with . I was told only to give them a well rotted manure mulch in early spring

 

I would give a manure mulch in autumn and a dressing of B.F.B in spring. When the plant starts to fruit give a high potash liquid feed once a week.

[mollydog]

Ok Lacewing I'll try that, Thankyou