blackberry containment?
2020-May-16, Saturday 05:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I completed another hour or two of gardening today before the sprinkling rain started to soak my shirt.
Does anyone know how to effectively contain a blackberry patch? I want blackberries. I'm not trying to eliminate them. I'm just trying to build an area in my yard that can keep them in bounds, so I don't have to spend a lot of time in future years trying to destroy the rambling roots.
Searching online, I find this estimate to their depth:
Blackberry can easily go a foot to a foot and a half deep even in clay soils.
That's about half a meter, for everyone on the planet but backward Americans. If that depth is to be believed, then how can I contain them? I can easily buy cinder block and dig a path to place them, but then how do I seal the cinder block to prevent root growth between the blocks?
Does anyone know how to effectively contain a blackberry patch? I want blackberries. I'm not trying to eliminate them. I'm just trying to build an area in my yard that can keep them in bounds, so I don't have to spend a lot of time in future years trying to destroy the rambling roots.
Searching online, I find this estimate to their depth:
Blackberry can easily go a foot to a foot and a half deep even in clay soils.
That's about half a meter, for everyone on the planet but backward Americans. If that depth is to be believed, then how can I contain them? I can easily buy cinder block and dig a path to place them, but then how do I seal the cinder block to prevent root growth between the blocks?
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Date: 2020-May-17, Sunday 01:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-May-17, Sunday 01:53 am (UTC)I originally planted some thornless blackberries/raspberries, but the seedlings reverted to having thorns. They mostly bear fruit on year-old growth, and I tried holding them with twist-ties stapled to the fence in my side-yard, but they responded by growing perpendicular to the fence (toward the light, of course), blocking the walkway. They always got ripe in late June, just as I was leaving for vacation, so the birds got most of them.