Blackberries

Hi folks, I bought some Blackberry's yesterday in Lidl, they look healthy enough with a few buds appearing. I've never done them before so should I repot them just now and plant them out later or just put them in the ground now?. Do I treat them as you would rasps, I was going to plant them alongside. Also with having been kept inside the shop for I don't know how long, should I try and harden them of first?

 

Hi

I have three Blackberry bushes of the thornless variety. I cut out the old wood out in the Autumn and wire the new current years shoots along a series of wires stretched between two scaffold poles.

Those three plants fill the frame which is 20 feet long and 7 feet high and produce ooodles of blackberries each year

 

In my experience it's hard to kill them, last year a builder put my potted one in the bonfire [ no, i can't explain, perhaps he thought it looked dead] I rescued it looking rather scorched and it shooted again.... I'd put them in.

 

Thanks, I will plant them out at the weekend beside the Rasps, looking forward to some fresh Blackberry's.

 

Blackberries are tough plants, put them in the ground straight away. you will not need to prune them the first year, but after that. When the first frost arrives in the autumn, the plant will shed its leaves. Thats the time to cut out all the old wood (black or dark blue)thats has fruited a few months previously. If you have any, put some muck under them, when planting as they will be there a long time.