I like to just basically untangle the whole plant from its supports and pretty much start again.įor a plant this age, I'd train it to about six good canes but this will depend on the age and size of your plant and the strength of your supports. Now it's just a case of making sense of this mess. All I do is find that cane, go all the way to the base and then snip it off at ground level.īlackberries are usually dreadful weeds in Australia but nowadays there are sterile cultivars that aren't an environmental threat and they're also thornless, which makes them much easier to prune. These can be easily identified by the spent flowers and fruit heads. They fruit on second-year wood so you need to take out the canes that have already borne fruit. You can prune these any time after they finish fruiting. However, autumn and winter are a great time to be doing maintenance to ensure good crops next season. TINO CARNEVALE: Being Tasmanian, summer, to me, means sweet, juicy berries and currants.
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