Blackberry

Blackberries have excellent taste and valuable medicinal properties. The plant is unpretentious, tolerates winter well, quickly begins to bear fruit, produces a good harvest, and is resistant to pests. The berries are not very large, shiny, black, juicy. Blackberry bushes usually grow up to 2 m and have small thorns.

When growing blackberries, the most common are hybrids after natural and artificial crossing. The soil must be prepared in the spring by digging up and destroying weeds. When planting, it is necessary to maintain a distance between plants, which must be at least 2 m, and when forming in a fan - up to 2.5 m.

After fruiting is complete, you should untwist the old branches and then cut them back to the very base. Subsequent pruning requires the removal of branches that have already produced fruit to be replaced by new shoots.

Caring for blackberries consists of regularly loosening the soil to a depth of about 7 cm, digging in the fall, and applying fertilizer. In early spring, dried and broken branches are removed and old ones are cut out. Blackberries begin to bear fruit 2-3 years after planting.