Blackberry Pruning

weiser

i planted a loch ness blackberry last year when does it require pruning thanks

conradmum

They fruit on the previous year's wood, so if this is its first year, leave it alone.

Farway

conradmum wrote: »

They fruit on the previous year's wood, so if this is its first year, leave it alone.

As above, tie in new shoots produced this year [2010], remove the shoots that fruit this year [2010] after you have picked all the berries you have, this would be about Oct / Nov 2010

The 2010 new shoots will fruit 2011

Just keep repeating

Money_maker

I find it helps to tie green and red ribbons to the base of the shoots so you know which are old and which are new. Next years shoots come through in the summer so it can get confusing!