Garden advice, tips & tricks for the home gardener

If you have tame or wild blackberry or raspberry bushes, follow these winter care tips for maximum berry production next year.
Prune away all canes that are 2 years old to prevent over-wintering of any diseases in these non-producing berry plant canes that could infect the younger canes of your berry plants.
You can apply fertilize to the soil around your blackberry or raspberry plants in the fall so it will be readily available to your berry plants when the awaken from dormancy in the early spring.
Do not water your berry plants and do not cultivate the soil around the blackberry or raspberry plants, however. Side-dress on top of the soil with a fertilizer rich in potassium, phosphorus, magnesium and/or calcium and it will absorb into the soil over winter.

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