Bramble Production
Name : Bramble Production.
Category : Home and Garden
Files Source: www.sustainableag.osu.edu
File Added : August 7, 2010
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An online presentation about Site selection and field preparation, Raspberry and blackberry growth and fruiting, Varieties and nurseries, Planting, Soil and tissue testing, Fertilizer applications, Pest management, and other.
Content summary :
* Location – plant away from trees, buildings, etc.
* Sunlight – plants need full sun (>8hours/day)
* Air Drainage – avoid frost areas
* Air Movement – help to dry plants, reduce disease
* Soil Structure – clay, silt and sand (clay drains poorly)
* Soil Drainage – plants do not like wet feet
* Deep till soil
* Tile field to promote good internal drainage
* Add compost, if practical, as needed
* Dig holes 2-3 times the size of the roots
* Soil test to determine the macro and micro nutrient levels
* Amend soil with appropriate fertilizer applications
* Lime requirements are based on soil pH and buffer pH.
* Perennial herbaceous shrubs
* Biennial 1st year primocanes, 2nd year floricanes
* Primocanes develop from roots (young plants) and basal buds (mature)
* Trailing and semi-erect (black); erect (red)
* Thorny (black, purple and red) and thornless (some red varieties)
* Perfect flowers; blackberry (fruiting shoot), red raspberry (fruiting lateral)
* Receptacle (torus); raspberry fruit separates from torus when mature
* Fruit = drupelet (aggregate fruit); round (black); round and conical (red)
* Pyrene (seed); seedy (black), fewer seeds (red)
* Perennial herbaceous shrubs
* Biennial 1st year primocanes, 2nd year floricanes
* Trailing, semi-erect, and erect canes
* Thorny and thornless
* Perfect flowers, racemose and cymose* Druplet = Aggregate fruit – united pistils…..” Download for more information!!
