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"michael adams" writes:
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| Having just noticed this is in a local nature reserve -
| where your pots may be disturbed - it's possible to layer
| directly in the soil - if you did this, other visitors
| might not realise what was going on. However you'll need
| to water these in, and ensure they never go short of water.

Only if it gets dry.

| This means you'll need to sever the stem come Autumn* and
| dig up the new plantlets and pot them up instead. ...

Now a heinous criminal offence. Ignore that stupidity.

| You can bend the pins out of a metal coat hanger. Or use a half
| brick which is rather less elegant. Blackberries root naturally
| when their stems touch the soil, providing the soil is moist. Which
| is how they spread naturally.

No, they tip in. Blackberries do not normally root except at
the tips, but the shoot may then grow on from where it tipped
in, and do it again.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.