Things Needed
Blackberries are a bramble growing fruit plant with a growing use as either upright or tracking . The erect varieties are down in sustentation and recommended for growing in the home garden in Pennsylvania . Blackberry canes are hardy to plant in USDA grow zones 5 through 8 . The cane can be planted in the cold northern areas of Pennsylvania where the temperature does not drop below 0 degrees F as long as winter protection is provided . blackberry will grow their first harvest three years after planting .
Step 1
prefer a planting locating for the blackberry bush canes that has a well - draining soil and full sunlight condition . The field should have good air circulation to lessen the risk of disease .
Step 2
Prepare the blackberry bush planting area the fall time of year prior to planting in spring by removing all weed and vegetative growth . Test the soil pH to verify it is 5.5 to 7.0 . tote up ground rock S to the soil to lower the pH if needed .
Step 3
utilize 3 to 4 inch of constitutive compost or peat moss to the planting sphere . ferment the compost into the grease to a profoundness of 10 inch with a garden tiller .
Step 4
Soak the ascendent of stripped ascendant plants by locate them in a bucketful of warm piss several hours before plant .
Step 5
Dig planting holes that are the same depth as the cane was previously grown and double as wide as the root spread . Set the cane in the hole and softly spread the roots out . Fill the yap with soil and gently tamp down to hold the cane in place . Space blackberry bush canes 4 feet aside .
Step 6
Water the blackberry cane munificently after plant . Apply 1 column inch of water to the canes each week during the spring time of year until berries have take form . Increase the daily water system amount to 2 gallons for each plant during the fruit yield period .
Step 7
Fertilize blackberries one month after planting with a complete 10 - 10 - 10 fertiliser . give fertilizer annually to established canes in early leaping before increment appears on the cane .
Step 8
Apply pine shuck or wood chip mulch around the canes at a astuteness of 2 to 3 in . This will assist with moisture retention in the soil and lessen competing weed growth .
Step 9
Prune blackberry cane in other spring by removing damaged , diseased and dead canes . Prune to remove 3 inch from the top of the canes in mid - summer . dispatch 2 - twelvemonth - old canes that produced yield after the berries have been harvested .
Tip
Do not plant blackberries in soil that previously uprise potato , tomato or white pepper plants . Winterize blackberries grown in northern Pennsylvania by banding 2 to 3 cane together , mildly bending them over without break and track with surface soil or mulch to protect the roots . slay the mulch when the filth beings to thaw in spring and mildly pull the cane upright to start ontogenesis . Erect growing blackberry varieties that grow well in Pennsylvania are Arapaho , Apache , Chester , Navaho , Ouachita and Triple Crown .
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