[Market-farming] Blackberry and Raspberry Questions

BillOhio billohio at gmail.com
Wed Jul 30 11:49:30 EDT 2008


We recently attended the brambles field night at the Piketon, Ohio OSU South
Centers research station, which was highly interesting. They no longer
recommend trelling brambles -- formerly they used high-tensile wire and
clips with, I think, a 6-foot plant spacing. Instead, they are recommending
heading back the canes at about 2 feet tall to break apical dominance,
thereby inducing development of laterals, which are in turn clipped at 18-22
inches. Plant spacing is 2 feet in the row for thorny and 1 foot for
thornless, due to the more aggressive spreading of the thorny varieties.

That's how I remember it, anyway :). The folks at Piketon are really
helpful. Their annual horticultural field night is coming up in mid-August.
5 bucks a pop, and they've got a tour, dinner and research summaries. Pretty
good deal...
For more information:

Julie B. Strawser
Information Associate
OSU South Centers
1864 Shyville Road
Piketon, OH 45661
740-289-2071 or 800-297-2072 ext 223
strawser.35 at osu.edu
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WRT Japanese beetles, I used a method this year totally unsuited to a large
planting but which worked for me fairly well. I cut the top 4" off a 2-liter
pop bottle to make a funnel, then held that over regular pop bottles and
shook the beetles into the bottle off my grapes and blackberries. It seemed
if I got them when they were actively flying and scouting that the damage
was somewhat reduced, and I had robins nesting in the grapes and didn't want
to spray. Filled 6 bottles with beetles, which is a heck of a lot of bugs.
The beetles can't get out of the narrow top of the bottles. ATM the beetles
are attracted to some milkweed plant flowers in the blackberry patch, which
are acting as trap plants. I can shake them into a bottle. Same thing works
somewhat for blister beetles on potatoes. Grandkids enjoy hunting beetles.

Kind regards,
Bill Huhman
central Ohio


On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Jay Atkerson <jay at mcreccwb.com> wrote:

> I have two blackberry and raspberry questions:
>
> What is the best way to trellis raspberries and semi-erect blackberries?
>
> What are the best techniques for controlling June beetles and Japanese
> beetles in blackberries and raspberries?  (Prefer organic or safe methods)
>
> Jay
>
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