[Neil Doncaster]

 Hello all,
I am thinking of getting a tayberry plant,bush ,cane whatever do I treat them like a blackberry as regards to pruning ,training etc or more like raspberry.Also do they produce suckers like the raspberry ( which are complete pain in the you know what).Many thanks Neil Doncaster.

[sunshineband]

They grow like blackberries 

As long as you train the new year's shoots separately from this year's fruiting canes, they are easy to keep under control too. (After fruiting, then cut these canes out)

Well worth the space 

[SkipRat]

Tayberries are very much worth having on your allotment, very easy to keep.

[Kajazy]

I'm also planning on putting in some tayberries, in the autumn - I have an arch going over the central path which currently has runner beans on it, but I don't have any fruit up at the plot yet - from what I gather, tayberries are good - lots of decent-sized fruit. There is a thornless variety, if you're interested, called Buckingham.

[aqua]

i got some from the pound shop

[sunshineband]

i got some from the pound shop

Don't be too disappointed when they take a season or two to fruit, will you 

[aqua]

no - i always expect that with fruit. it has been useful them being small while i get he lottie in shape

[emptydraw]

I've got a small tayberry on my plot and we had the first fruit from it yesterday (very nice!). I was just wondering if you can layer the stems to increase the number of plants? Does anyone know if this will work?

Thanks,
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[Neil Doncaster]

Many thanks for all your advice I am going to get some later this year

[Growster...]

I've got a small tayberry on my plot and we had the first fruit from it yesterday (very nice!). I was just wondering if you can layer the stems to increase the number of plants? Does anyone know if this will work?

Thanks,
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I think they are tip propagators - just poke the tip into the soil and it should start a new root.

Hope my memory serves me correctly, it's ages since we had ours!

[Ralphy]

Definatly plant tayberrys! they're Lovely and don't take up much room if they're trained along a fence wire!
   I planted my tayberry in spring last year, and the first berrys are ripening and there are loads of them even though the stems are a bit spindly! only two canes have appeared this year though and they're growing rampantly!
  One of the canes was peeping over the fence and it's growing tip was knocked off by someone passing by, but it has since produced and aditional four growing tips from side shoots, do you think i should chop three of them off? or will one stem be able to support four canes?
 I trained last years canes along wires all to one side and was going to do the opposite side this year but the new stems have somehow managed it interweave themselves with the old ones, so 'll have to wait til the old canes are finnished and chopped off til i can make sense of it,
  so they're not entirely trouble free, at least with me....

[sunshineband]

I've got a small tayberry on my plot and we had the first fruit from it yesterday (very nice!). I was just wondering if you can layer the stems to increase the number of plants? Does anyone know if this will work?

Thanks,
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They grow root from the tip of the new shoots