Fruits and Nuts: Black raspberries tiny berries, low yield, 1 by TexasLou

TexasLou wrote:
For 3 years, we have been using lots and lots of compost from the water treatment plant for our thornless blackberries. We only put 6 plants in this bed at the end of a workshop bldg and should have only used 4 plants. We drove 3 fruit tree spikes around each plant about 8 to 10 inches from the cane. This crop was planted in the spring of 2005 and we are now picking about a 1 lb. strawberry container full every day. The small plants are now coming up so thick we are discarding them. I'll post a picture of the bed and then do another post of a picture of some of the berries we picked this weekend. it is amazing to see the size of the berries. I put a penny, a quarter and a dime on the page for comparison. They have to have a LOT of water and are planted on a small hillside.
Louise