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Balckberries where raspberries grew
Do you think it is OK to plant blackberries where we have had raspberries
growing the last 6-7 years? The raspberries have probably reached there natural life span, we have had gradually decreasing crops and this year the plants are looking decidedly unhealthy. Malling jewel I think is the variety and we have fed and mulched etc every year. I will dig up and burn the roots of the raspberries and fill the trenches with compost before planting a thornless blackberry of some kind in the Autumn. AndyP -- "Wisest are they that know they do not know." Socrates "If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world" JRR Toliken, The Hobbit |
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Balckberries where raspberries grew
"Dee" wrote in message ... Do you think it is OK to plant blackberries where we have had raspberries growing the last 6-7 years? The raspberries have probably reached there natural life span, we have had gradually decreasing crops and this year the plants are looking decidedly unhealthy. Malling jewel I think is the variety and we have fed and mulched etc every year. I will dig up and burn the roots of the raspberries and fill the trenches with compost before planting a thornless blackberry of some kind in the Autumn. Don't know whether it's theoretically OK, but I've done what you suggest, without any problem evident for the thornless blackberry. that must have been about ten years ago now. |
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Balckberries where raspberries grew
"Dee" wrote in message ...
Do you think it is OK to plant blackberries where we have had raspberries growing the last 6-7 years? The raspberries have probably reached there natural life span, we have had gradually decreasing crops and this year the plants are looking decidedly unhealthy. Malling jewel I think is the variety and we have fed and mulched etc every year. I will dig up and burn the roots of the raspberries and fill the trenches with compost before planting a thornless blackberry of some kind in the Autumn. I reckon brambles are tough enough to do ok like that. It's against the usual rules, of course! My mother even planted raspberries on the same site in Devon for twenty years. (I can't tell you which varieties she had, I'm afraid.) Might be an idea to plant two or three bramble varieties and see if one does better. Mike. |
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