We have a raised bed against our privacy fence and are planning on putting a raspberry and blackberry vine in there. What is the best way to trellis them without them being so wide?
What is the best way to "trellis" Raspberries/blackberries?
So you have already chosen trailing blackberry and raspberry varieties?
Some of the pruning advice I have read that seems very interesting is A) pruning back primocanes (not flowering/fruiting floricanes) to 4 feet to encourage them to branch and B) removing canes such that there are only 1 cane every 4 inches, so a 15 foot row should have 45 canes.
For support, a T post at each end and heavy string or wire seems to make a lot of sense.
Alas I am growing an upright thorny variety -- Kiowa, so will not need to do much trellising.
I used to have a link to a site with a wonderful trellis for raspberries/blackberries. I cannot locate it, but I found it googling 'raspberry trellis' and I think it was on a vendor site.
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