When are blackberries in season?

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The flowering period extends from May to August. The fruit ripening of native blackberries begins in August and has reached its peak in September. Early forms develop the first scratch berries in June. If you combine different varieties, you can expand the harvest window to a maximum and harvest well into October.

Variety recommendations:

• early bearing breeds: 'Choctaw', 'Silvan' and 'Wilson's Early'
• medium varieties: 'Kittatinny', 'Dromand Red' and 'Cascade'
• late ripening blackberries: 'Black Satin', 'Asterina' and 'Theodor Reimers'

The bushes like that

Blackberries prove to be undemanding, because they feel comfortable on light and heavy surfaces with a pH value of 6.0. For better growth, you should loosen compacted soils deeply and improve them with sand. This is how you prevent waterlogging. Low-humus substrates can be improved with compost.

Promote fruit ripeness

Late varieties and thornless varieties require a fully sunny and sheltered place in the garden so that their berries ripen in late summer and autumn. The location is more important if you live in higher elevations and regions with heavy winter frosts. Frost damages the fresh fruit canes and their axillary buds, so that the harvest in the following season is less.

Cultivate blackberries

Would you like in your garden Plant blackberries, you should prefer a late planting date in autumn. The trees have enough time to grow and, with good care and optimal conditions, will bring the first ones in the coming season Fruit yields.

planting

Place the ball of the pot in a bucket of water so that the substrate can soak up. If you want to plant several specimens as a hedge, ensure a distance of 100 to 150 centimeters for slow-growing varieties and 300 to 400 centimeters for vigorous varieties. Dig holes with twice the volume of the root ball and give Horn meal in the planting hole.

The shrub is placed so deep in the pit that the root ball sits about five centimeters below the ground level. Fill in the Excavation into the gaps, step on the substrate and water the soil penetratingly. A layer of bark mulch protects the soil from excessive water loss.

care

Winter protection is recommended in the first year of standing. Water the shrubs regularly during the growing season so that the root area does not dry out. The administration of bark humus, leaf compost or horse manure in April ensures vital development.