Posted: 5/11/2014 8:58:41 AM EDT
|
Hi
I am trying to cultivate the blackberry's under the power line easement on my property to make them easier to harvest. Any ideas or suggestions on layout? Anything to make life easier? |
|
I'd dig up some wild blackberry vines and let them go. They tend to be more resistant to nature (bugs, predators, and common disease), but also significantly more thorny. Commercial blackberries need more care and feeding. They're bred to produce more and larger berries. If you do the non thorny commercial blackberry plants, I'd put up a simple trellis or some other mechanism to keep the canes off the ground to improve production. You may need to protect them from wildlife harvest as well (netting/fencing).
Not sure what kind of easement you're referring to... if it is a big power easement for big transmission lines, you may not have much luck. In many cases, they bushhog the easements several times during the year. |
|
MS paint or pics of the area would be helpful. As well as the mowing schedule for the power company. If they only cut once a year in spring or fall you can probally get away with a primocane variety. Otherwise your canes will never reach two year maturity required for floricane fruiting types.
If you do a single row run it W<----->E If you do multiple rows run them North/South Some T-Posts and electric fence wire makes an easy trellis that you can take down when they mow and put back up the next year. |
|
Thanks guys.
They don't mow this. They have a crew that comes through and sprays/chops trees. They don't do anything if it is being maintained by the homeowner. The wild bushes are already growing like gangbusters out there. I just need to transplant/cultivate them into rows. |