Blackberries – Oregon Thornless (Bare Root)

A late season variety thornless blackberry with deeply divided leaves held throughout the winter. Good blackberry flavour and medium sixed berries. An excellent variety for jam making and easier to manage than the larger growing blackberries. Best grown in humus enriched soil in full sun or partial shade. Blackberries produce three to four foot lax shoots which need to be supported either by other shrubs or tied into a wire support or a wall. Easy to grow, productive and disease resistant but requires space and care to harvest large crops. Net fruit from the birds or tie humming tapenear the plants, which creates a humming sound irritating to birds when the wind whistles through. Probably at its happpiest scrambling through a hedge but difficult to protect the fruit from birds in this situation. Blackberries like many other berries are a very important food source and contain high levels of anti oxidants.