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Thornless Blackberries (Rubus fruticosus)
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Exposure: Full sun to light shade.
Zones 5 to 9.
Soil: Acidic to circumneutral average garden soils.
Growth habits: Depending upon variety, thornless
blackberries are upright to vining, easy-to-grow herbaceous perennials.
They flower late, on the previous season’s growth, thus avoiding
late frost damage and fruit in mid to late summer. Thornless blackberries
are bred for large fruit size.
Landscape uses: For home use, thornless blackberries
are best grown in 6-foot tall, two-wire trellised rows on the border
of your vegetable garden or along fences. They are also a good choice
for berry farming.
Edible/Medicinal properties: The new shoots are
edible. Blackberry leaf and root tea is astringent and is used for
diarrhea, coughs, colds, TB, rheumatism, and as an eyewash. The
ripe fruit is very high in available antioxidants and high in Vitamin
C, b-complex, and folic acid. Blackberries are the highest fruit
in LDL(low density lipoprotein) cholesterol inhibition effect, thus
helping to prevent stroke, heart disease and arteriosclerosis.
$15.00/2 gal |
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Available Varieties
Apache - Disease resistant, large fruited, high quality,
very productive, upright.
Arapaho - Earliest ripening, erect canes, flavorful,
disease resistant.
Chester - Very heat and cold tolerant variety with large,
sweet fruit.
Navaho - Superior fruit quality, long August bearing,
erect growing.
Triple Crown - Highly productive, large sweet fruits,
semi-erect canes.
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