Its also surprising that fruits that are berries botanically speaking include banana, eggplant and tomato.
BRAMBLEBERRIES,RUBUSSPP.
A lot of the selected brambleberry cultivars have quite distinctively different flavors.
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BLACKBERRY
As mentioned, this is the original that most other brambleberries are derived from.
For a good crop of the familiar plump black fruit, cooler climate zones are best.
LOGANBERRY,RUBUSXLOGANOBACCUS
This ones a hybrid of blackberry and raspberry.
The long cylindrical berry is a dusky reddish-purple color.
The fruit is very aromatic and much sweeter if left on the plant to ripen.
There is a thornless cultivar.
BOYSENBERRY,RUBUS URSINUSX HYBRIDS
Boysenberries dark-red to almost black fruit is tart but juicy.
Boysenberries do well in subtropical areas.
The plant is prickly and spreads vigorously.
It does well in the subtropics.
On the plus side, it bears nearly all year round in warmer climates.
Other brambleberries you may come across include marionberry, silvanberry, lawtonberry and tayberry.
RASPBERRIES,RUBUS IDAEUS
Interestingly, raspberries are actually cane berries and not brambleberries.
Raspberries grow on strong upright floricanes that will bear fruit biennially or in the year of growth.
These canes are renewed each year from sucker growth from the root system.
Most raspberries like moisture but the soil must be free-draining, as they detest wet feet.
There are summer fruiting and autumn fruiting varieties.
There are a few cultivars that are thornless, though.
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Imagine a forest floor, their natural habitat, with lots of rotting vegetation and leaf litter.
If you have poor-draining soil, add organic matter and gypsum.
Another option is to plant your berries in a mound to keep their roots above clay soil.
Cane berries prefer a slightly acidic soil pH of around 66.5.
If your soil pH needs to be lowered, additions of sulphur powder and/or peat moss will help.
Use pine needles in your mulch to naturally acidify the soil.
you’ve got the option to also mulch your berries with lucerne, sugarcane or pea straw.
Another practical feature of these fast-fruiting plants is that theyre relatively easy to net.
PRUNING AND TRELLISING
#1.
Brambleberries
Brambleberries will require a regular pruning each season.
These trellis set-ups should ideally be around 2m high and consist of three rungs of wire.
This makes it much easier to keep the fruiting canes separated from the next seasons fruiting growth.
These 10cm growth stubs will produce the following year.
#2.
Raspberries
There are many schools of thought on how and when various raspberry cultivars should be pruned.
A trellis/fence set-up to a height of around 2m is ideal.
There are a few different cultivars of raspberries and their pruning needs differ.
They will still also produce new canes from below, which will fruit late summer/autumn, too.
Summer-fruiting cultivars, on the other hand, produce fruit only on the second year/previous seasons canes.
Once they have fruited, these canes die and should be pruned off at ground level.
New canes will then grow and produce fruit the following year.
