How I Double My Blackberries Every Year!

Simple tip to double or even triple your blackberry harvest each year. If you love blackberries and want to have more each year, follow this easy trick and share it with your berry best friends!

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[gumdropjewerly]

Hi I'm 9 years old and I have a BlackBerry Bush and I'm starting a selling business tomorrow with me and my freind we wash them we wear gloves and we have a logo :)

[anthonyburke]

I’m a beekeeper, by far my favourite honey is that from blackberries, it’s unique

[garyweaver]

I make wine with my blackberries every year. 20 lbs of blackberries plus enough sugar water to make 6 gallons of wine = about 3 gallons of sugar water makes 6 gallons of wine. Save used berries to make another 5 gallons of wine. Save used berries to make another 3 gallons of wine. EC-1118 wine yeast works great.

[tamib]

If they are like raspberries. Take that end and stick it in the ground. After they fruit, and it has taken root, snip the bend in the middle. You start a brand new plant that gets stronger and doesn't require nutrients from a single root system. More fruit. Better fruit. And you control the height etc. You wouldn't need to vine them either.

[OnCallSeven]

I live in Georgia in the US. 30 years ago I purchased several thorn-less blackberry varieties and had them growing quite nicely in my yard. I took them with me when I moved into a new home a few miles away. I tilled and planted only two rows which was about 20 plants. Then I had missed the proper pruning/harvesting for a couple of seasons due to health concerns. I dug them all up this year from my blackberry jungle/forest as I am much stronger and in better health and now I have over 150 plants. This is even after mowing several square yards-worth with the mower. It is INCREDIBLE how many plants you can get...even throughout a wood pile in the yard. I am planning to border my backyard with a blackberry trellis along my walking path. I also have a local farmers market in town where I can sell the plants and fruits. Blackberries are honestly, HARD TO KILL OR GET RID OF. Fortunately I love them and could eat them all day. Thank you for this awesome video and the tip. Happy fruiting!!!! 🙂

[stockvillain]

I caught this vid last year, after a pretty poor haul from my one blackberry bush.
This year? Holy moly . . . My bush has *all* the blackberries!
It works wonders. I've got so many berries, I don't know what to do with them all.

[whydoineedahandle]

You look like you’ve been doing this a while, but my strategy is to let the other end of the vine touch down and take root. This stimulates the plant to send up more first year growths, which is ideal if you are trying to spread your patch. I’m on year 6 of growing these and I’ve gone from one plant to about 40 first year vines.

[winkfinkerstien]

I did this last year after seeing your video and now we have at least triple the blackberries! It's a thornless variety like yours. My wife loves them. Now I am excited about next year's harvest. Such a great tip! Thanks again!

[lindapolle]

Love this lesson.
Thought you might like to hear the science behind it.
The tips [ called the terminal bud] make a hormone which suppresses areas of stem-cells located where the lower leaves are attached. Pruning the end bud results in the lower stem-cells making [allowing] a new side cane, or if you deprive these stem-cells of light, they will produce roots. In short, this is how you air-layer for new plants. This can work on the end bud too by planting it back into the soil.

[tarapaul]

I paused your video and ran out to the garden and snapped off the vine tips 😊

[helenamcginty]

Back in the UK on the Lancashire coast someone had planted hymalayan blackberries along one long fence/treeline of an acre garden bought by my parents in 1964.
As these plants were well incorporated in the willow hedge they were just left alone. Only being roughly cut back every couple of years or so when the fence line or trees needed sorting in early spring. (Mending was always delayed till after the worst of winter storms were over.) We were a family of 7 and had more than enough of these large, sweet blackberries every year for eating fresh and bottling for use over winter. Fruit in pies or more udually under crumble and the juice made into a jelly (jello) for tea. Previously we had gone Sunday afternoon blackberrying, along with other families, along local bridlepaths where blackberries and wild roses grew in amongst the layered hawthorn field hedges. These small wild fruits were a bit tart usually but nice. Wild rose hips were also picked for making rosehip syrup.😮

[cornwallcelticexperience]

I live in the UK and we have a lot of wild bramble (blackberry) we eat the leaf tips you were removing steamed or wilted. They also have healing properties and can persuade sick grazing animals to start eating again. Not sure if you can do this with cultivars though.

[hollienguyen]

That technique is called tipping and you can do that twice at different lengths. 1st year canes are called Primocanes (the cane and leaves grow), 2nd year canes are called Floricanes (flowers and fruits, then dies). Blackberries crowns or root stocks are perennials but the canes are biennial. The University of Arkansas has a blackberry school for free online to watch and learn.

[theresetorres]

My 1st year of blackberries. Your tutorial was very informative! Thanks a bunch

[randomlife]

About 4 years ago I started only mowing my yard about 4 times a year. Now I rarely "have" to mow. The grass has been taken over with all kinds of cool stuff. I have dewberries everywhere in my "lawn" now.

[animeanibe]

Great tip. Thx. Deer have done the snipping for me this year, and you can see the new growths everywhere.

[amyb]

Thank you very much for this multiplication trick! I have a slow starting b.berry that I am hoping to encourage. I have not been to your channel before, and I am sad that your beautiful wife's passing was the reason I was directed here. I wish you peace and rest from all you have been valiantly striving for, for her.

[jmajick]

I had Japaneses beetles so bad that I filled 15 bag traps. The next year, as soon as I saw one I sprayed the trees with an essential oil bug killer. I didn't see another one until the next year. That year (last year 2020) I did the same with the essential oils with the same results. The spray contains Eucalyptus, Tea Tree, Lemongrass, Thyme and Peppermint oil. Sprayed one time per year after seeing the first beetles emerge.

[Dragonfiregum]

I've been spreading berries around my yard for years. Pick 2, toss 1 is my rule.I feel it helps spread the plants and also feeds the critters.

[briancunningham]

About the beatles. One thing that I did to control their population was to build a bunch of bird houses and put them in my berry bushes. I rarely see any beetles and if I do it is only a few. The birds mow them down for me and keep me virtually beetle free. Just something to think about, and it is very cost effective.