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drstratton said:
Last night my husband sprayed the Blackberry plants we've been trying to eradicate in their free range pen.
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One of these would not be sufficient???
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drstratton said:
We use those too, but it doesn't kill the root system...they keep coming back, so we have to spray them!
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I have some blackberry bushes growing in one of my flower beds. I sure wish they would spread much better than they are doing. The ground is fertile. When I tied them up to keep them upright, they died back at point of tie contact. I used cloth about 1 inch wide to do the tying. I don't get berries on the new twig growth of that year, but only on the twigs that were there prior year. I pretty much got nothing to eat off these bushes this year.
I don't use pesticides or any type of control killer on my lawn, or garden. Personal choice. I have used Diazinon in the past to kill ant hills. I buried it into ant hill. Now I use Borax. I still will use Sevin, to treat chicken coops if needed. It is not considered very toxic.
 
drstratton said:
We use those too, but it doesn't kill the root system...they keep coming back, so we have to spray them!
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You don't want to keep them for the chooks? I'm sure they would love having those in their run.
 
cavemanrich said:
I have some blackberry bushes growing in one of my flower beds. I sure wish they would spread much better than they are doing. The ground is fertile. When I tied them up to keep them upright, they died back at point of tie contact. I used cloth about 1 inch wide to do the tying. I don't get berries on the new twig growth of that year, but only on the twigs that were there prior year. I pretty much got nothing to eat off these bushes this year.
I don't use pesticides or any type of control killer on my lawn, or garden. Personal choice. I have used Diazinon in the past to kill ant hills. I buried it into ant hill. Now I use Borax. I still will use Sevin, to treat chicken coops if needed. It is not considered very toxic.
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Ribh said:
You don't want to keep them for the chooks? I'm sure they would love having those in their run.
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BY Bob said:
Great cover and snacks. They would be a chicken favorite.
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We put these blackberries in probably 20 years ago & they took over a huge section of the treeline...I don't like the thorns, it was a nightmare & in an area where we needed to be able to get into. We planted thornless blackberries & raspberries next to the fence...so they will still have blackberries & raspberries too (the raspberry plants have thorns, but they are easier to control)! I'm thinking about training the blackberries for a bramble in their pen...it will be good cover & food without the thorns! They really enjoyed the raspberries this summer...we should get blackberries next summer!
 
drstratton said:
We put these blackberries in probably 20 years ago & they took over a huge section of the treeline...I don't like the thorns, it was a nightmare & in an area where we needed to be able to get into. We planted thornless blackberries & raspberries next to the fence...so they will still have blackberries & raspberries too (the raspberry plants have thorns, but they are easier to control)! I'm thinking about training the blackberries for a bramble in their pen...it will be good cover & food without the thorns! They really enjoyed the raspberries this summer...we should get blackberries next summer!
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Agreed anything with thorns is a right royal pain. Lots of people grow Bouganvillia up here for the masses of brilliant flowers but I won't have it anywhere near the place. The thorns are vicious & I don't think the flowers are anything special. If it were scented I might reconsider, but it's not.
 
Ribh said:
Lots of people grow Bouganvillia up here for the masses of brilliant flowers
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If it would grow here in my cool climate, I WOULD HAVE SOME:love
I grow roses, and they have thorns.... Just need good gloves when working around such.
BTW my blackberries are the THORN-LESS VARIETY... :thumbsup
 
Ribh said:
Agreed anything with thorns is a right royal pain. Lots of people grow Bouganvillia up here for the masses of brilliant flowers but I won't have it anywhere near the place. The thorns are vicious & I don't think the flowers are anything special. If it were scented I might reconsider, but it's not.
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Sadly the blackberries with thorns taste the best, but aren't worth growing in my opinion! Hopefully the new thornless variety will taste good!
 
cavemanrich said:
If it would grow here in my cool climate, I WOULD HAVE SOME:love
I grow roses, and they have thorns.... Just need good gloves when working around such.
BTW my blackberries are the THORN-LESS VARIETY... :thumbsup
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It wouldn't have been so bad if we'd kept on top of them, but we just have to many other things to do around here!
How do you like your blackberries?
 

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