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How to Prune Blackberries

In this video, Beverly Welch is joined by Angela Chandler from The Garden Academy. They show us how to prune blackberries, which take minimal maintenance and care and should be in every garden! https://arborgate.com/video-how-to-pr... ♪ [music] ♪ - [Beverly] Hi, welcome. I'm Beverly Welch here at The Arbor Gate in Tomball, Texas, joined today by my dear friend Angela Chandler... - [Angela] Good morning, Beverly. - ...at the Garden Academy. So, we're here to talk to you today about one of the most prolifically growing and producing fruits that you can do on the Gulf Coast with minimal maintenance and care, and that would be blackberries. - Blackberries, wonderful, wonderful fruit full of antioxidants, easy to grow, should be in every garden. - Well, I can taste the cobbler right now. - That's right. - So, we're going to show you today the easy method that there is, the how, the when, the why of pruning and maintaining your blackberry patch. So, this is a great example of what not to let occur. - It happens from time to time. - It does. - People get busy, and so what happens is your blackberries grow to be sort of a bramble, and a bramble is very difficult to maintain. It's difficult to harvest. It's also difficult to take care of the living material that's in here. So what we want to do is kind of tame this today and get it back to where we can take care of it well. - Sounds perfect. So, we do need a good pair of clippers. - We do. - We need to clean our clippers for clean cuts. - We do. - And you can do that with a simple bleach water solution. - You can. Bleach water or 91% alcohol. It's real inexpensive, and one good thing about alcohol is it's not corrosive on your good tools. - Perfect, and I would also recommend a really great pair of gloves. These gauntlet-type gloves that are typically sold as rose gloves are perfect. Definitely a long-sleeve shirt. This is kind of light fabric, but it wouldn't even hurt to have a heavy denim shirt on. You just want to protect yourself against the thorns. - Yeah, they're going to fight back a little bit. - Just a bit. And, okay, so, I've got my new plant. It is a one-gallon plant. I've planted it. It's the first year in the ground. I really don't need to worry about too much pruning the first year. - You really don't. The only thing you're going to do the first year is watch for the new canes that start to sprout, and you're going to start training those canes for production next year. - All right. So these are obviously much older. - Right. - So after the second year, my cane that has produced berries, is the cane that I will go back and prune? - And remove, yes. So, you're going to have vegetative growth the first year. It's just going to grow green, beautiful. Kind of they're related to roses, so it's going to have sort of a rose bush appearance to it. Then the following spring, April, May, it's going to produce berries. After that cane produces berries, it's going to die back naturally, so we really want to get in there fairly soon, early summer, and remove those canes and allow the new fresh canes to grow.