How Do You Grow Blackberries In The Midwest?
Almost everyone has childhood memories of summer afternoons spent picking blackberries from brambles gone wild in abandoned fields and yards. Small and tart wild blackberries are an iconic part of summer. For larger, sweeter and sometimes thornless berries, grow your own. Blackberries are one of the easiest berries to grow. Blackberry brambles grow in any kind of soil, are drought resistant, more productive than their wild relatives and, with the excepting of a yearly pruning and fertilizing, don’t require maintenance. Plant in early spring. In the Midwest blackberries need to be planted in early spring. Select blackberry plants hardy to your zone. You can choose from semi-erect bushes that do not require trellising to the more traditional trailing varieties that should be trellised for the best results. Blackberries are self fruitful, so no pollenizer is needed. Choose a dormant bare-root bush. Prepare the site. No special preparation is needed for the planting site. Blackberries are
