If there are no flowers on the cane of your blackberry now, it will have berries next year. New canes will appear next Spring and they will fruit the following year. Once you've picked all the berries off that cane next year, cut it out at the base. They produce fruit on canes that form the previous year. The canes that had berries are cut out completely once you've picked the berries.
I grow Waldo a cultivated thornless variety of blackberry on a fence. I picked 11Kg from it this year.
If your blueberry starts to look a bit poorly, then it's because your soil isn't acidic enough, so you may need to move it to a pot and use ericaceous compost and water with rainwater.
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
@Lyn I have just been out to check and there is no sign of prickles I am glad to say!
@Pete.8 That is really helpful thanks. The blackberry cane is about 4ft long and is against a fence. There are no thorns. Noted re the blueberry. I will keep an eye on it. Hopefully I can look forward to a good crop of mixed berries next year.
I have kept a copy of this conversation and will update next year. Many thanks for all the help.
This thread has reminded me that I have a raspberry plant at the end of the garden. I never even bothered to look for berries this year as I know the tree rats will have had them.
Well! Out clearing winter debris I accidentally pulled up a short shoot of the said raspberry. The shoot was about 10 cm high but the root was at least 2m long and went in all directions. The more I pulled out the more I found under the dahlias and the rose. All along the roots were new shoots just waiting to spring out Hopefully, it is all gone but will keep a wary eye. It was not prickly at all but even it was a true raspberry, it was certainly in the wrong place!
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If there are no flowers on the cane of your blackberry now, it will have berries next year.
New canes will appear next Spring and they will fruit the following year.
Once you've picked all the berries off that cane next year, cut it out at the base.
They produce fruit on canes that form the previous year. The canes that had berries are cut out completely once you've picked the berries.
I grow Waldo a cultivated thornless variety of blackberry on a fence. I picked 11Kg from it this year.
If your blueberry starts to look a bit poorly, then it's because your soil isn't acidic enough, so you may need to move it to a pot and use ericaceous compost and water with rainwater.
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
@Pete.8 That is really helpful thanks. The blackberry cane is about 4ft long and is against a fence. There are no thorns. Noted re the blueberry. I will keep an eye on it. Hopefully I can look forward to a good crop of mixed berries next year.
I have kept a copy of this conversation and will update next year. Many thanks for all the help.