Cleared bramble garden

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• elu439 Posts: 17

  May 2019

  DampGardenMan said:

  Are you leaving any for fruit? I'm agonising over that
  

  Oh yes. We've got a nice large patch at the front that we are leaving for fruit. 

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• DampGardenMan Posts: 1,054

  May 2019

  I do have a thornless bramble, but it's never fruited! Mind you it's been stuck in a pot for about fifteen years ... maybe I should get it into the ground.
  

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• mrtjforman Posts: 331

  May 2019

  some cheap varieties just don't do well sometimes and if yours hasn't produced anything in 15 years in a pot it won't perform miracles in the soil either. A new healthy variety from a good supplier will make all the difference. Also I can highly recommend the thornless tayberry, i think its called tayberry buckingham. It spreads like a bramble but tastes amazing. Like a blackberry with no sour aftertaste.

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• DampGardenMan Posts: 1,054

  May 2019

  @mrtjforman - noted, thanks.
  
  

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• DampGardenMan Posts: 1,054

  May 2019

  islander said:

  I cut at the crown/heart of the bramble, under the soil. It has an amazing structure  and this technique seems to faze it.

  Do you cut it out entirely? That's what I've been doing (with a mattock).
  

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