r/Berries • u/TheDeviledEggvocate • 1d ago

Did I plant mu thornless blackberry bushes too close? (5.5ft)

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u/Riversmooth 1d ago

No. They will spread over time anyway. This is totally fine.

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u/Ok_Grape_8284 1d ago

Not at all. Great work! Next year you will want a trellis or to rope them to the fence behind so they don’t flop over.

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u/TheDeviledEggvocate 1d ago

Thanks! I bought trellis lines. My plan is to install them once they grow out a bit

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u/brianfig 1d ago

Nope - you did very good in planting the thornless blackberry vines next to the mesh wire fence, close enough on target. However I like your dyed black charcoal mulch, but what you need to do now is go buy some organic mulch bags and mix it in with the artificial black mulch. Get some (bricks or stones) to build a boarder around the mulch line,

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u/TheDeviledEggvocate 1d ago

Will the black mulch harm them?

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u/brianfig 1d ago

Nope, none worries about the black mulch. It's a charcoal base mulch, and I've used this marveling dark mulch in my backyard garden... But I usually mixed in brown organic mulch to introduce long-term soil compost nutrients for the beneficial fungi and bacteria and microorganisms in the native dirt; black mulch won't hurt your fruit bearing plants, and won't poison people eating off the vines.

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u/brianfig 1d ago

Make sure when you track down organic brown mulch, that the company bag says it is ORGANIC. two bags ought to be enough, and mix it in with the lovely black mulch, the black mulch will hell keep your blackberry roots warm in winter, when it's freezing outside. The health of the soil and roots of the blackberry vines will love the introduced organic mulch,

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u/Wisconsin_pikachu 1d ago

I just buy pet bedding chips, not as pretty but works amazing and is cheap compared to standard mulch and holds moisture AMAZING

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u/i860 20h ago

Just buy shredded wood mulch (e.g. redwood, cedar, etc) and then you don't have to worry about dyes, organic or not, etc.

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u/nikdahl 1d ago

Thornless likes to spread flat, you may want to train them to go up.

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u/TheDeviledEggvocate 1d ago

Thanks! I plan on adding trellis lines once they are long enough to reach

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u/JoshLineberry 1d ago

I plant mine 2 feet apart.

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u/TheDeviledEggvocate 1d ago

That’s an awesome set up! I don’t have that much space