Fruits and Nuts: Advise for where to buy good berry plants! Please help!, 1 by pbyrley

pbyrley wrote:
Gooley said,
"Nourse quality is jaw-droppingly good, and their prices are reasonable. (I think they're the people I tried to phone-order from once and they didn't want to sell me any blackberries or raspberries until I'd eradicated the wild blackberries from most of my land.)"

I wanted to know what the wild blackberries would do to the cultivars. I am going to have 8 blackberry cultivars planted by (real) Spring and there are wild ones all around. I figured they would just add to the harvest if I pruned them and fertilized them a little.

I'm not sure what I will do differently, but I would really like to know why I shouldn't have wild and cultivar blackberries near each other.

Thank you all.
Paul

(my dog Pepper loves to pick and eat blackberries)