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  • From: "Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Wild Blackberry virus
  • Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 14:28:52 -0800

Title: Re: [NAFEX] Wild Blackberry virus
The viruses are usuall spread by bees, in pollen.  They visit your cultivated berries after going to the wild plants.  The way to beat that is to grow fall bearing types and mow the canes off in the winter.  That way, the new canes don't bloom until well after the wild types are long through with blooming.  
   As to roots, the main thing is to be sure they are DEAD.  Once dead and decaying, they are much less likely to pass any disease along to anything else.
-Lon Rombough


How long do wild blackberry root-borne viruses
persist in the soil, if the plants themselves are
eradicated (using goats)?

Are there bramble cultivars (besides the himalayan)
that are virus-resistant?  

I had to pull up the raspberries; the marionberries
looks not-so-hot, the boysenberries are a bit futher
and look okay.



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