Wild blackberries often grow on garden plots, but not all gardeners love this berry for its prickly spikes. To correct the situation, breeders are introducing new non-studded varieties of berries. These include the Blackberry Triple Crown.
Grade description
The blackberry variety in question yields high yields and is easy to grow.
The blackberry bush forms shoots 2.5 meters in length. The berries are large in size, weighing up to 10 grams, rounded in shape, dense structure, with a wonderful aroma and good juiciness. The taste of blackberry berries Triple crown sweet and sour, improves after staying in a cold place.
The variety is characterized by good transportability, undemanding to soil, resistance to various weather fluctuations.
Blackberry Triple crown is grown on a trellis trellis, for winter it is covered.
The subtleties of agricultural technology
Blackberries can be planted quite densely, the interval between the bushes is 80 cm. The variety is half-spreading, therefore, it needs support.
Blackberry Triple crown can produce a good harvest even in shaded areas. The bush can be planted in spring and autumn, the variety tolerates frosts well.
For a blackberry bush, medium loam with an acidity of 6.5 is suitable. You need to choose a site where raspberries and other blackberries have not grown before.
You can fertilize with potash compounds. Blackberry responds well to humus, compost, manure. Fertilize for the first time during planting, then annually before the flowering stage.
Frost is not afraid of planting, but young shrubs are covered with woven material or straw for the winter.
Propagate the berry by flexing young shoots. The roots of the bush penetrate deep into the soil, 2 meters.
You need to trim the bushes after the snow melts and in the fall after harvesting. In the spring, damaged branches are removed from the bushes.
How to ensure high productivity?
Gardeners often consider a blackberry a barren bush with tasteless berries. But this is not always the case, it is only necessary to properly care for the plant.
Description of a blackberry The triple crown in agricultural technology somewhat resembles that of raspberries. All shoots are divided into:
- fruitful;
- substitute (grow in May and bear fruit in the next year).
They try to make substitute shoots horizontal. In this case, they are easy to shelter before the onset of cold weather. Fruit-bearing branches are tied to a trellis trellis.
Replacing branches grow up, just bending them in the fall is difficult. Therefore, with a branch length of 30-50 cm, it is tilted and attached with a hook to the ground. Then you can pinch the growth point.
After harvesting, fruiting branches are removed.
Best of all, the laid shoots will protect the snow. But if frost sets in, and the snow has not yet fallen, it is necessary to cover it with non-woven material or organics. Cardboard, polyethylene are also suitable.
Blackberries are not susceptible to diseases and parasites. There are viral diseases, but they do not reduce the level of productivity.
Landing
The choice of the place and the formation of the landing pit largely determines what the harvest of the Blackberry Triple Crown variety will be.
Do not plant bushes in humid places. The roots of the plant may die. The excess moisture is especially terrible for young seedlings.
It is necessary to choose a moisture-resistant, but not marshy area. Blackberries should be watered abundantly during berry growth.
You can plant bushes on sandy soils. But in this case, it is necessary to water the blackberry well and fertilize the soil with organic matter.
When planting, humus, ash and double superphosphate are added to the soil . Every two years they mulch with a new humus.
A pit of 40-50 cm deep is prepared for the seedling, manure, compost, superphosphate and potassium fertilizer are added, carefully mixed with the soil. This nutrient mixture is filled into the pit by 2/3, the fertile soil is poured, a plant is planted and covered.
Fertilize the planting will need to be no earlier than 2 years.
In the middle lane, bushes are planted early in the spring at intervals of 80-100 cm from each other. After planting, the stems are cut at the level of the soil.
Breeding
The plant can be propagated by root cuttings. To do this, in the spring take roots 10-15 cm long and, laying horizontally, plant.
It can be propagated using root offspring. They appear in July, at this time they stop cultivating the soil . In autumn, offspring can be dug up and planted in a permanent place.
It is convenient to propagate with horizontal layering. In the spring, on annual shoots, cuts are made under the kidneys, laid in grooves and covered with soil. By the autumn they take root.
Whatever the method of reproduction, the gardener will have to work hard to grow an adult plant.