[Organic_Gardening] Blackberry question

 

I have a blackberry that I planted years and years ago (maybe 6?) I put it in a
bad spot and it kept getting tilled or weedwhacked. The year before last I
finally got smart and put a tomato cage around it before my dad started yard
work (his favorite tool is a chainsaw, if you live outside you've got to be
tough). That year it finally grew a little and produced about a cereal bowlful
of berries. I left the tomato cage on it and last year it grew like crazy and
produced like crazy. Dad came in yesterday and told me it was dead. We've had
an awful cold spring and things are only just starting to leaf, so I told him to
give it a little more time. Today I went out and looked at it, it has tons of
growth from last year, but no leaves. After checking carefully at the base I
found some new growth coming up. Should I cut out all of last year's growth?
Part of it? Should I have cut last year's growth out last fall? This is my
first blackberry bush and I really love the berries, I want to do right by it.
TTFN
Penny
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