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  • From: Richard Robinson <rrobinson AT nasw.org>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Blackberry and Raspberry Questions
  • Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:10:12 -0400

On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:49:30 -0400, BillOhio wrote:
> 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.

Bill, for this method, is the heading back done on primocanes? (I am guessing
it must be.) Do you know of anything on the web that discusses this more? I
didn't see anything at the South Centers web site.

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Richard Robinson
http://www.nasw.org/users/rrobinson/






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