Learn how to grow and care for DownHome Harvest® 'Navaho' Thornless Blackberry, a thornless blackberry that grows upright.

During their first growing season after planting, allow 'Navaho' Thornless Blackberry plants to produce as much growth as possible without pruning. These early canes may sprawl over the ground ...

While raspberries and blackberries have different habits, once they bear fruit on canes grown in the previous years, then pruning is a sure thing you have to do on both. The two biggest benefits of ...

An N.C. Cooperative Extension Service hands-on workshop on pruning blackberry bushes and more will be held from 1:30-3:30 p.m. Feb. 7 at New Castle Farm at 2818 Clingman Road in the Clingman ...

Learn what the “branch collar” is, then always prune to leave that very short ... have unlimited space to develop. Leaving blackberry canes in place after they produce fruit.

Pruning out dead or diseased canes helps increase airflow and sun penetration around living canes, which wards off disease and encourages more flowering. Taking to his TikTok page @ ...

Remember to wipe tools with alcohol or a weak bleach solution between plants to eliminate transferring disease. First, remove any old or diseased or dead canes. Prune canes from the shrub’s interior ...