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  • From: "Jim Fruth" <jfruth@tds.net>
  • To: "NAFEX" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [NAFEX] Northern Blackberries
  • Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 08:23:58 -0600

Ernest Plutko wrote,"I dug up wild blackberries
from near Brainerd, Mn but they didn't make it here in zone 2b."

I grow zone 5 blackberries here in zone 3. Just before freeze-up, I weight down all the canes with heavy fenceposts and iron pipes; a few canes break but most don't. I try to get the canes as close to the ground as possible. Then I wait for snow. If it doesn't snow enough before January comes, I take my snow blower and blow more on top of them because any branch that isn't covered gets fried from Minnesota's dry wind. I tried covering with mulch but snow works better.
There'll be those of you who will say, "That sounds like a lot of work." What isn't? Even baby sitting is a lot of work. Altogether, I spend no more than four hours putting that blackberry patch to bed, a 30' row. The alternative is to buy someone's fruit that has been shipped in from who knows where AND my berries taste better.

Jim Fruth
Brambleberry Farm
Pequot Lakes, MN 56472
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  • [NAFEX] Northern Blackberries, Jim Fruth, 02/07/2008

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