Vegetables Gardening - Growing Organic Vegetables

I had 4 wonderful big blackberry bushes at another home for several years.
You could do it in rows, but they tend to spread & it is nice to be able to
get around the bush to get at all the berries. I just planted 4 little bare
root sticks several feet apart from each other a little out from a fence
that faced west.

We are in Texas & they loved that location. I got the biggest, sweetest
berries from those bushes. I think they were supposed to be thornless
Arapaho, but they were not thornless. They had plenty of thorns & they grew
upward. I planted thornless Arapaho last summer in our yard here & they are
not anything like those bushes. They grow more horizontally & lay on the
ground instead of shooting up out of the ground & being bushlike. Does
anyone know if you handle this kind of blackberry the same as the other
kind. Do you still clip the ends to encourage sidewards growth? So far I am
not impressed with them.

Nola
North of Dallas - Zone 8

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Carmen <hollyhocks7@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

>
>
> Hi.. am growing strawberries, blackberries, & raspberries... and have a
> few questions...
> couldn't find info at the website...
>
> What is the best way to do the berries...are they done on the 18" rows,
> like everything else?
> How are they placed? And do we do the fertilizer like everything else,
> as well? How many weeks
> would we fertilize? And when would we start fertilizing? (what month?)
>
> Is it best to cover with black plastic for the strawberries, like we see
> out in the fields,
> to keep the strawberries off the ground? Of course we wouldn't be able
> to fertilize then... :O
>
> Any help would be appreciated!
> Thanks!
>
> Carmen in Zone 8-9 (some sources say 8..some 9 ;-)
>
>
>

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