Unlike wild blackberries, the thornless varieties grow long straight vine-like branches called canes. I prefer to trellis the canes to keep them off the ground, conserving space in the garden, and ...

And right now is peak berry-picking season.At Eckert’s Orchard in Versailles, Kentucky, farm manager Megan Fields and her ...

The harvesting of some erect thornless blackberries usually starts the third to last week of June and lasts four-five weeks. A single blackberry plant can produce 10-15 pounds of fruit.

If you like the sweet taste of blackberries, try 'Doyle's Thornless,' which bears a lot of fruit and is disease-resistant.

Chester and Triple Crown thornless blackberries are also recommended for growing in Kansas, but these two varieties have semi-erect canes and will require support from a fence or trellis.

Semi-erect blackberries must be supported on a strong trellis. A simple trellis is recommended for the erect type. Recommended thornless erect varieties for Florida include Apache, Arapaho and ...

Cultivated blackberries produce aromatic, flavorful and contain smaller seeds than their wild relative. Try Columbia Star, Black Diamond, Obsidian, Marion, Boysen, Triple Crown.

We're not organic, we're sort of in the middle because we use those things to make better fruit.' They have also planted a large area of thornless blackberries using a rotating trellis system.

Not I. I grow thornless varieties of blackberries, horticultural wonders with pretty much all the qualities of their thorny relatives except the thorns.

Year after year, all this pruning keeps any blackberry planting productive, healthy and easy to harvest -- and all the more fun if the plants are thornless.

Plump, sweet blackberries are easy to grow, but vicious thorns can make it difficult to harvest the delicious fruit. 'Natchez,' a new Texas Superstar, is a thornless, pest-resistant cultivar that ...

A hands-on workshop in the thornless blackberry patch at Crabtree Farms, 1000 E. 30th St., on Saturday, Oct. 22, will teach the ins and outs of pruning and trellising, practices that can make a ...