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chickpeacurry

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black berries
« on: February 27, 2014, 21:41 »
Cut back all the dead growth off the black berries today. I was wondering about what to give them a feed. With and other fruit bushes

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Re: black berries
« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2014, 21:50 »
I always feed mine around now ---sulphate of potash.

Blood Fish & Bone does a good job too, and is slow released.
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Re: black berries
« Reply #2 on: February 27, 2014, 21:59 »
Would potash be ok for other fruit bushes raspberry gooseberry red currant

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Re: black berries
« Reply #3 on: February 27, 2014, 22:02 »
Would potash be ok for other fruit bushes raspberry gooseberry red currant
Yes - any fruiting plant loves potash..
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Re: black berries
« Reply #4 on: February 28, 2014, 00:01 »
no help to you i'm afraid but i have a massive blackberry bush that grows over my fence from the industrial estate behind my garden. obviously i don't feed them and god knows what substance they grow on. they gave a massive crop last year, which was a bonus as it's a new house to us.

not wanting to hi jack the thread but is it worth pruning / cutting back any of the old growth?

if so how would i go about it and what do i cut and what not to cut?

i can only get to the parts of the jungle that are 6 or 7 foot tall (at the top of the fence), and have no access to the growth that is the other side of the fence.


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