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  1. Elena Anatolievna

    I want to share how, by trial and error, we managed to achieve a stable harvest of blackberries.
    This culture easily tolerates drought, which is associated with a deep location of the roots. Of course, you need to water the blackberry, especially during the ripening period of the berries, but do not pour it - the berry will begin to deteriorate and will be sour.
    The blackberry is demanding to heat, in the open sun it grows better and gives larger and sweet berries than in the shade.
    Plant a blackberry better 8 protected from the wind area. Strong wind breaks off the fruit branches, injures and knocks berries.
    In the autumn, I cut off the bushes, remove the old and sick ones. For the winter, bushes are better sheltered, and the roots are insulated with mulch material (peat, humus, sawdust). So you save plants from frost. The weight-
    To get a good harvest of blackberries, you need to make fertilizing, but remember that excess nitrogen can lead to disease with gray rot and reduce the winter hardiness of bushes.
    The bushes need to be opened until the buds become swollen, cut off and raised to the trellis. A good result is the early spring mulching of the soil with compost.
    We made a high fence-put up posts, welded iron rods to them and let the blackberry branches through them. In the second year after planting bushes, the blackberry began to bear fruit.

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  2. Tatyana72

    I decided to describe my successful experience in rooting blackberry cuttings. I used to put cuttings in the water in the autumn-winter period and just waited for the appearance of rootlets. Rooting did not always happen, in half the cases, the efforts were vain. But interestingly, when the roots appeared, they were located not in the place of the lower cut, but at the top of the cuttings.
    I began to wonder how others root the blackberry cuttings, and found a rather troublesome way:
    The hilt of the cut should be buried and the bottom placed in water. Although rooting in this case always occurs. Thinking, I decided to simplify this method. And that's what I did.
    Sliced ​​cuttings of blackberry length 20 cm with 3-4 eyes and lower cuts put them in jars. Water in each poured a little, at about 3-4 cm. The upper cuts of cuttings with kidneys placed in bags with moist soil. I first poured the soil with water with fertilizer (infusion of chicken manure with the addition of EM). The package was cut into strips, laid on the ground and wrapped the cuttings so that the earth was snug against the tops of the cuttings. Then she also wrapped them in pieces
    fabric, thus fixing cellophane tape with the ground. And so put in the water. About ten days later the roots appeared, but I did not remove the packages for another couple of weeks. In the water with cuttings I once poured the infusion of crushed egg shell.
    As a result, when she removed the bandages from the cuttings, they already had a lot of rootlets. Further it is already easier: we plant the rooted cuttings in pots with the ground and send them to the sunny windowsill. For better survival, I covered the cuttings with jars for a week. And in the spring she already planted excellent saplings in the garden. I just managed to duplicate my favorite blackberry. And I wish you successful experiments and harvests!

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