New tayberry plant

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• BobTheGardener Posts: 11,385

  October 2019

  You need to plant it where there is some support, such as a fence, trellis, posts & wire etc.  Each year they grow new long canes (3 or 4m is not unusual) which fruit in their second year.  After each cane has been harvested, you cut it right back to the ground and tie-in the new canes which appeared in the spring and which will provide next year's crop.

  I grow one through a small apple tree which provides the support but makes it hard to remove the old canes.  If you don't give them any support, the canes will arch back down to the ground and root where they touch it and can get out of hand if left to their own devices for a few years (much like brambles.)  Once fully established, one trained against a fence would need an area of roughly a full 6' x 6' panel.
  

  A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  

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• mrtjforman Posts: 331

  October 2019

  it does not need 8 metres of space. The nice thing about it is that it needs a small area for its roots and then it spreads to all unused spaces. Mine did easily spread 8 metres if not more last year. It grew along the fence behind 5 different currant and raspberry bushes so any sun they were letting through the Tayberry was picking up. I just had to periodically tie up the branches as they grew longer. The space allocated for the plant at mine (roots) is max 1 metre.

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• Potwoman Posts: 77

  October 2019

  thanks for that reassurance.  I think I am going to put it alongside the edge of my large fruit cage with some wiring fixed between the posts  so I can tie in the new branches 

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