Blackberry

Can you grow a blackberry bush up wires against a fence?

 

Hi,

Yes, they will grow up against most things, you can train your shoots as you like.

We let the long new years shoots grow out during the summer, then carefully bend them to form a more compact circle up against the garage wall.
Still got plenty of fruits in the freezer from this years crop !

 

I'm not sure this is a blackberry. Is blackberry a bramble? My neighbour says its a blackberry bush - but it doesnt look like brambles. It might actually be a blackcurrant and she has the name wrong. O gawd. Can you train blackcurrants up a wire too? I've never grown anything apart from strawbs before.

 

It's in the middle there beside the fuchsia.. There are two apple trees trained up that big fence, I had thought to put it over there near them?

 

Thanks JWK.It's not a great pic but I think that's the answer. One more problem solved, now onto the next one which I'm sure I'll hit soon

 

Agree its a current bush may be blackcurrent, but they also come in red and white berries.
(though a slim chance its one of the modern patio blackberry bushes)

You can see in these pics the difference between a black current and black berry.

Nice looking plot in front of the window, what are you planning for there ..?

 

Great thanks Ricky, pics make everything easier. What you call blackberries I call brambles and I dont want them in the garden, I can pick them from the wild. Not a clue what to do with the garden yet really - but the old man who lived here was a gardener, he worked his whole life at a huge house locally, doing all kinds of garden maintenance, so the soil should be good and the garden all ready to be refreshed. My own one that I left had taken me 30 years!

 

I can (and do) easily pick 300lbs of Blackberries from the wild, so would never bother growing them myself, same with crab apples, damsons, cherry plums, etc.

This year I even gave up on growing blackcurrants, doing away with pruning, feeding, losing plants to big bud, losing loads of fruit to birds, especially pigeons who would eat them before ripe/netted, and 'topping and tailing' was a real chore. So I got a load of frozen, prepared blackcurrants delivered.

 

I might go this way meself, will give it a try for one summer and see what it entails Scrungee. I haven't got energy or strength to waste, so if it's too much work then I won't do it.

 

I'm very grateful for all input and advice, I can think over winter what to do.