In this video I will show you how to grow blackberries and raspberries in your organic garden.Growing blackberries and raspberries is easy as long as you get them planted correctly.
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31 Comments
I threw a few random black raspberry stalks in my yard that I found across the street in a ditch and within 3 years I have more berries than I can handle… No watering… No nutrients… Just production lol
They truly are "plant and forget" if you get them to establish… And my yard is in zone 5, pure clay, and compact… They thrive and would spread uncontrollably if I let them
Hopefully will start black berries and raspberries this year. Marking all your berry videos for easy reference. Thank you!!!! Blessings ❤️🌺
Do you have any blueberry trimming videos? I’m in Connecticut and planted 6 last year need some direction
We bought a home 2 years ago and to our surprise our first summer, we had 3 young Navajo blackberries & a blue jay blueberry bush along our fence! We’ve gotten a good bit of blackberries last summer, hoping for even more this year! 🤞blueberry bush hasnt fruited I think it needs moved somewhere with more sun bc the blackberries kinda shade it out, it has gotten way bigger though
How do handle (or do you have) deer?
why would put shade net behind? berries don't like sun?
You need THICK gloves while working with thorny blackberries!
Primocane raspberries fruit on new wood. Heritage is a fall primocane variety. Floricane raspberries fruit on last year's wood. Different pruning is required. Check berry plant sellers for which are which and pruning.
With (at least) 17 commercial blackberry species and 23 raspberry species you can easily find your desired berry producer.
– In fact, if you just go out in the wilds, forest edges, farm fence lines (where birds drop their berry poo) and dig up a strong contender blackberry plant. They are far more strong and onery than commercial plants – and most-likely will over-produce for you (mutual appreciation) in a nice, heavenly, fertilized location than their original rough and harsh location.
– When pruning, make sure you know your blackberry and raspberry cane pruning protocols. Some canes produce on first growths, while others grow on second growths. Do neuter yourself and the plants by counter-productive pruning the fruiting canes.
Can you talk about how to keep them from taking over outside of the trellis area? Can you bury pots to contain them?
Thank you Brian. Your not concerned about them suckering all over the place? ❄️💚🙃
Hi Brian, thank you for this very educational video about growing blackberries and raspberries! I have just potted a blackberry cutting in a 15 gallon pot yesterday, do you think it will do fine in the pot or should I put it in the ground?
Great video thanks, I bought 2 raspberry plants and a blackberry last year, have been in pots, hopefully survived the winter and I can plant out, I haven't looked at them in a few weeks, been too busy with starts.
The biggest connection most people don't know is that commercial blackberry stalks are different than the native American blackberry – and especially the thick and invasive Himalayan blackberry. The native has a green and pencil-thin reddish stalk and relatively small bushes and not viney (unless they can grabbed onto something and climb up – same for poison oak bushes or vines !!!). Commercials are mostly green stalked and also slightly larger than natives. It is the huge finger-thick and thorny brilliant green stalked Himalayans that are invasive – but when properly kept pruned and trellised for LONGGGG lengths of trellissing (like grape vines !), they can be great producers with the local honey bee et al population pollenating them (and keeping them off the ground for birds to scavenge your harvest from you).
If you want new growths of berry plants, one can easily cut a length of the growing stalk, and plant horizontally in the ground (like sugar cane segments). Guaranteed – blackberries and raspberries will sprout of that mother cane – without doing any air-rooting etc. One can also easily bend down a berry vine and burying in the ground for 12-16 inches and the leaf and nodes will all start self-rooting and creating their own daughter plants – just like strawberries throwing off daughter plants and self-seeding them. No need to go out and buy more commercial plants !
If you just want to be a penny pincher – find your local neighbors with their blackberries and raspberries. Buy some handfuls of berries from them and "Johnny Berry Seeder" … plant those berries in a suitable hoed or tilled, aerated, and soft-soiled area, fence line, trellis, … and later multiple sprouting berry plants will come up. Add some fertilizer and voila – nearly-free berry vineyard ! Within 2 years you will have full adolescent and fruiting berry vines with their deep rooted structures in the ground. Just keep pruned and trellised – and they will keep producing into old age (and shooting off daughter plants in the interim.
Your videos are always so well-structured, I appreciate the organization! 🧐
In Oregon they're considered an invasive noxious weed..
I planted thornless blackberries 2 years ago. Super productive wonderful harvest last year. Pruned everything last fall. Rabbits invaded my yard over the Winter and chewed the bark off on most of the canes. They didn’t touch the raspberries, I’m assuming because of the thorns. Is there any solution for this other than fencing?
I'm so excited. We are creating a "berry patch" on our new property and we have 4 black berries and 4 blueberry plants right now. We are trying to figure out the trellis we want to use for all. Thank you for another great video. 👍
Do it!
I just learned.. if it's green after it fruited leave it alone if it's brown cut it down.
Cool! Thanks Brian! At the last house I had my blackberries full of beetles, it was ridiculous! How do you prevent that?
Have you ever heard that cut hair is good for nitrogen?
Heritage has thorns. that's what we have. always use gloves to pick the berries & long sleeves! i love Heritage cuz you can prune to get 2 harvests and really love the flavor
Definitely good timing on this video. We will have four different varieties of Raspberry's as well as two varieties of figs arriving in a few days. So always something to learn and of course Thank You for another informative video!
Hi there Brian thank you for the excellent video as usual. This is kind of a dumb question but I am using the Neptune's Harvest Fertilizer that you recommended in all of your videos for the first time this year and bought the liquid tomato and veg fertilizer and was wondering when I do start fertilizing do I water first and then fertilize after or fertilize first and then water and play latest certain amount of time in between each one thank you
I planted dwarf thornless blackberries and raspberries last year in a planters made from a plastic 55 gallon barrel since I like container gardening. The blackberries did well and had lots of growth. Them raspberries didnt do as well and may not have survived the winter in 5b. If they didnt Im going to plant more blackberries. I also plan on starting blackberry plants from cuttings later in the year and place them in large grow bags.
I'm in Arizona, near Phoenix, and tried growing raspberries and they just died immediately. I may try again now that I've seen this.
I would like to see a video on growing grapes. I am on my 4th try now, and the best I can say is that they're not dead yet. No new chutes, no new leaves, no growth at all after about 3 months. I'm watering a LOT less than before because I think I overwatered them before.
I planted some container blackberry's last spring myself there The thornless kind they just starting to put on foliage I hope yours do well
I am surprised you can grow raspberries in your zone. I am in 9b and cannot grow raspberries but blackberries do really well.