[Market-farming] Blackberry Problem

Joyce Paski elderberrywine4u at yahoo.com
Thu May 29 23:33:15 EDT 2008


Hi, Mark:  Yes.  Both were in powder form.  I didn't measure.  I just gave a good sprinkle of each around the root zone of each plant, topped with wood chip mulch and watered well.  I never had another problem with them, and I had the same bushes for almost 20 years (then we moved).  BTW, it was my dad (an old-fashioned farmer) who told me that too much fertilizer will give you great growth but no fruit.  You won't be able to get any fruit this year, but you should do very well next year.  Hope this helps.

TxBeeFarmer <TxBeeFarmer at HotPop.com> wrote:  How did you give them peat and bone meal. Were both in a powder form? How 
and how much were they applied?

Thanks

TxBeeFarmer (Mark)
West Texas Zone 7b


On 5/29/2008 6:40:10 PM, Joyce Paski (elderberrywine4u at yahoo.com) wrote:
> TxBeeFarmer wrote: I have three kinds of
> thornless blackberries. They grow great and look
> great, but no berries, or at least very few. They bloom in great numbers,
>
> but after the blooms, what look like immature berries, just dry up and
> never
> mature. What could be happening?
>
> I had raspberries that did the same thing. It turned out I was giving them
> too much fertilizer (nitrogen). I gave them some peat and bone meal early
> the following spring and never had another problem.
>
>
> Joyce Paski
> Swamp Creek Farm, Zone 3

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Joyce Paski 
Swamp Creek Farm, Zone 3 
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