For those gardeners who decided to grow on their backyard blackberry , there is a large selection of modern varieties. They differ much in their characteristics from the blackberry that was cultivated earlier. There are many varieties, but I want to more fully stop your attention to the most worthy ones.
Varieties of blackberry garden
- Blackberry Agavam - this is the most frost resistant variety available for our area. Bushes sprout, can reach a height of more than two meters. Thick perennial stems grow vertically with a slightly inclined top, and young thin shoots can grow horizontally. Shoots have thorns. By autumn, the branches of the bushes become purple. The Agavam variety is resistant to diseases, it fructifies well every year. Having planted such a blackberry on your plots, you can not worry about the harvest - it will always be. The berries of the plant are up to three grams, very sweet and have the inherent taste of blackberries. In order that the berries do not crush, you need to spend every year in the middle of summer prishvipka tops in young shoots, which yield the crop for the next year. And in order for the bush to yield a good harvest, in spring it is necessary to remove all the shoots. The plant likes water-intensive clay soils and sunny areas. The harvest ripens in August.
- Blackberry Orcan is a variety of Polish breeding, which has large oblong berries with sour taste, weighing up to ten grams. The variety is strong, has shoots up to six meters. With every bush with good agrotechnics, you can collect up to five kilograms of delicious berries. Another advantage of the Orkan variety is the absence of spines, which greatly facilitates the work of the gardener in the care and harvesting of berries. Harvesting takes place at the end of July.
- Blackberry Navajo is an upright variety that does not have thorns. To care for it requires only regular pruning and garter on the trellis. The shrub has a compact size, which is very good in small areas. The berry reaches eight grams and can be harvested from the bush to twenty kilograms with good care.
The variety was bred not so long ago in Arkansas. Fruits from the beginning of July to the end of August. - Blackberry Ruben is the newest and most unique variety, because it is remontant. Grow it like raspberries without trellis, since the bush is very compact. At the end of the fruiting, to prevent frost, the shoots are completely removed. Fruit ratio of this variety falls on the middle of August - beginning of October. The berry reaches a weight of fourteen grams and this is a record for the blackberry. This new variety is very promising, both for private households and for mass cultivation.