The Bramble Patch Part 2

 The materials have been acquired to complete the pair of trellises for the blackberry plants on the right side.  The bramble bushes prefer acidic soils, so I added pine needles as a mulch.  This will make the soils more acidic and keep the grass from competing with the plants.  I then ran the wires to tie the trellises together.

After installing the wires I carefully tied branches of the bushes to the trellis wire.  My goal here is to train the bushes to grow up onto the trellis.  This will hopefully make harvesting easier and improve the quality and quantity of yields.

The Bramble Patch

Today we set up the bramble patch!  We have 3 blackberry, 3 raspberry and 3 blueberry bushes in the front yard now.  Additional materials are needed to get the trellises made for the blackberry plants on the right. 

The trellises are spaced 20 ft apart.  There is about 8 ft. spacing between  the rows.

Here are the varieties growing in the bramble patch starting closest to our house:
Raspberries on the left.  Cumberland, Coho, Cumberland.
Blueberries in the center. Biloxi, Palmetto, Sunshine.
Blackberries on the right. Apache, Prime-Jan, Apache.

It would be nice to grow just one variety for consistency but multiple varieties encourage better yields due to cross-pollination.

We used an orbit drip system.  This is very efficient for watering the plants without watering the general vicinity.