Granny's gone and done it again

[Granny Hatchet]

How are your chicks in the clinic doing? Are they healing?

 

[Nomadicus]

IF I remember right mine are thortons blackberry

Never heard of that variety. Were the upright or did they have to have a wire trellis?

 

[Nomadicus]

How are your chicks in the clinic doing? Are they healing?

Yes. Better everyday. The one that got beat up the worst is taking longer than I like. She is getting spoiled rotten.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

Yes. The ones that grow in snow do not have edible fruit. Mine should bear a full size banana. That is if I got what I paid for. I've been thinking about how to frame them in and make a clear protective cover for them in the winter. Easy to supply just enough heat to keep them from being froze back to ground level.

2x2s in a square frame and driven into the ground should work. Or t-posts maybe?

 

[Nomadicus]

The black silkie that has the limp is a fuzzy type and we named her Elvira and the Red one is Reba and the white one is Sophie.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

Never heard of that variety. Were the upright or did they have to have a wire trellis?

upright even though I did give them something to climb against

 

[Nomadicus]

2x2s in a square frame and driven into the ground should work. Or t-posts maybe?

Need to build it 16 feet high and at least 12'x12' square. They spread from the root making more trees. I started with just one tree and now have 3 in the second year.

 

[Nomadicus]

upright even though I did give them something to climb against

all of mine are upright but I'm going to run a number 9 (clothes line wire) to support them as when they load up with berries they get real heavy.

 

[Nomadicus]

I just heard thunder....

 

[Granny Hatchet]

Never heard of that variety. Were the upright or did they have to have a wire trellis?

my bad. Its been a long time since I bought them
https://southernlivingplants.com/the-collection/plant/navaho-thornless-blackberry/