Loganberry

Grapes are a useful plant

- a hybrid whose bush has powerful creeping shoots with straight thorns. According to its description, Silvan raspberry is similar to the Tayberry variety, but its clusters contain twice as many berries. Ripening is early, from July, but extended until mid-August.

The berries are dark cherry, black when fully ripe, weighing up to 12 g. Productivity - up to 5 kg per bush.

Loganberry

For the most part, blackberries and raspberry-blackberry hybrids are not winter hardy enough for the North-West. To prevent the vines of blackberries and raspberry-blackberry hybrids from freezing, you need to lay them on the ground for the winter and cover them with spruce branches, rags or synthetic padding.

The variety forms spreading bushes with arched stems reaching a height of 1.5-2 m and requiring staking. Another plus is the complete absence of root growth. A plant of this variety blooms in middle lane already in mid-June and blooms for up to one and a half months. During this period, plants are characterized by increased decorativeness: brushes consisting of 15-20 large pale pink seven-petalled flowers stand out very well against the background of greenery. And during the fruiting period, the plants are also spectacular and very decorative. The berry ripening period of the variety is extended - from mid-August until the very frosts, however, this late ripening of the berries is also a valuable property of the plant. The very first berries are large, reaching a weight of 10 g, elongated, shiny and very sweet. You can collect up to 10 kg of berries from one bush.

Garden blackberries, due to their deep root system, are more drought-resistant than raspberries. However, many gardeners try to plant it in damp, often flooded places. This is a gross mistake! Under such conditions, the plant may die due to ripening of the roots. Seedlings especially suffer from waterlogging.

Blackberries are usually planted in rows, with a distance of 1.6-1.75 m between plants. For thornless varieties, reduce it to 1.5 m. The height of the trellis is adjusted to your height. But the lower wire is pulled no lower than 0.5-0.7 m from the ground so that the hanging fruiting clusters do not touch the soil.

From the practice of gardener Elena Litvyakova:

I also bought a seedling from the nursery that year, only 15 cm tall, I don’t know how it will survive the winter.

High winter-hardy variety, resistance to pests and diseases at the level of standard varieties.

Raspberry variety early date ripening, technical purpose, tasting assessment of fresh berries 3.5 points.

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Ezhemalina: description of raspberry-blackberry hybrids

Early harvested berries are bright red in color, edible, and of high quality. Berries picked at a later date are black glossy color, oval in shape, larger, weighing up to 10-12 g. Silvan is one of the best-tasting hybrids. The berries are very large, 10-14 g, collected in clusters of 6-12 pieces. The ripe berry is black, glossy, with a pleasant aroma and sweet taste. Productivity - 4 kg per bush. When picked at full ripeness, the berries have a pronounced aroma and a sweet and pleasantly sour taste. Bushes of the hybrid Silvana in the southern region without shelter can freeze.

Initially the hybrid was prickly. But in Lately When breeding the crop, not only new spiny, but also thornless clones were identified. The new thornless clones do not have a powerful bush, and they also give a smaller yield compared to the thorny forms.

- one of the most famous raspberry-blackberry hybrids, bred in the USA. Ezhemalina Loganberry is a creeping bush of medium power. Shoots with thorns. But among the thorny clones there are also thornless ones. One of them is Thornless Loganberry, the shoots and leaves of which have velvety pubescence. The color of the shoots is gray-green, sometimes slightly reddish. back side silver leaf. There are few replacement shoots in this variety of blackberry, but with the age of the bush there are more of them. The bush does not give offspring, but when digging, the root system is damaged and thornless offspring may appear in a thornless variety.

But removing thorny lashes from a trellis is not a pleasant or safe task. Therefore, it is possible to build a removable trellis, which, together with the lashes, will be laid on the ground for the winter. The trellis can be made from wooden posts or pipes of small diameter. The trellis is installed in pipes dug to a depth of 30-40 cm (the diameter of the pipes must be greater than the diameter of the trellis columns!), So, for two bushes, three pipes driven in at a distance of 2 m from each other are enough. It is easy to remove such a trellis from the pipes in the fall and lay it together with the bush on the ground, and then cover the bush.

Raspberry varieties Loganberry and Boysenberry

In addition to good taste and nutrients - sugars, organic acids, biologically active substances, iron, calcium, sulfur, phosphorus and others - Loganberry fruits also have medicinal properties. They are used both fresh and for making jams, jellies, compotes, juices, they make excellent platters with apples or strawberries. Raspberry-blackberry hybrids are considered one of the most promising areas for breeding these plants. From blackberries, new varieties inherit high yields, unpretentiousness to soil and cultivation conditions, and from raspberries - its crown winter hardiness and relative thornless stems.

Soils are preferably moisture-absorbing, up to loam, but not swampy. Blackberry is demanding for watering, especially during the period of ripening of berries and the growth of replacement shoots. In the middle zone, 10-20 liters of water are spent per week on an adult bush. With a lack of rainfall and good drainage, watering rates can be slightly increased. Blackberries also grow on sands. But at the same time, it requires intensive watering, and the soil itself is well-filled with organic matter. The best shelter for the laid shoots is snow, providing a constant temperature and humidity. But if it is not there yet, and the frosts are about to hit, a non-woven covering material, cardboard, polyethylene film, various organics. Under such shelters the blackberry vine does not rot. In regions where winters are damp and mild, and there is almost no snow, film cover can destroy the vine.

Perm. It grows for 5 years with a variable harvest (up to 3 liters per bush). I put it on the ground in the winter and raise it in the spring.

Raspberry-blackberry hybrids are spreading subshrubs with arched shoots up to 2 m long or more, which must be tied to a trellis, because under the weight of the berries they can touch the soil. They are very decorative during flowering, because their large pale pink flowers, similar to chamomile, are collected in huge brushes of 15-20 pieces. The bush is medium-sized, semi-spreading. The shoots are medium-sized, spiny, with a dense arrangement of leaves and an average ability to form shoots. Escapes are unbreakable. Easily bend to the ground. The thorns are located throughout the shoot, thin, soft.

Cumberland black

Tayberry

Ezhemalina Tayberry (with photo and description)

Look at the photo of Loganberry raspberry:"Garden Affairs" No. 1 (45), 2011

The Loganberry variety is very easily propagated by rooting the tops of annual shoots, woody and green cuttings. The very first variety was a hybrid that formed naturally in the USA, and they called it Logan's blackberry in honor of the one who found it at the end of the 19th century. Subsequently, new ones appeared hybrid plants- Boysen's blackberry, Young's blackberry, which, without using special ingenuity, were named according to the same principle.

Raspberry-blackberry hybrids Silvan and Cumberland

Since blackberries can grow and bear fruit well in one place for up to 15 years, when planting, mix the excavated soil with several buckets of humus, 1/2 tablespoon of ash and a small amount double superphosphate. Every 2-3 years, the mulch from humus is renewed. The acidity of the soil for blackberries should be in the range of 5.5-6.5 pH. Varieties Thornfree, Black Satin, Smutstem can withstand frost up to 22-23 ° C. Thornfree freezes at -25 ° C, and freezes to snow cover at -28. It is believed that Thornless Evergreen can withstand - 29 ° C, however, if the bushes were heavily loaded with harvest, they may freeze already at - 25 ° C. The most frost-resistant (down to -30 ° C) is the Chester Thornless blackberry. All of the listed varieties do not have thorns and do not produce offspring unless the root system is damaged by deep digging.

I'm tired of it. The berries taste so-so, nothing special. I decided that it only takes up precious space in the sun (2 bushes on a trellis), and in the spring I want to uproot it and plant grapes in its place.

But even more beautiful are the bushes, hung with garlands of large black, shiny berries, which ripen from the end of August until frost. They are sweet, with a blackberry flavor. The berry separation is dry. Transportable, after removal they do not “leak” for up to 5 days. And this is also important. Their yield is significantly higher than that of raspberries. The berries are medium and small (1.8-2.7 g), blunt-conical, purple. The drupes are medium, uniform, loosely linked. The pulp is sweet and sour.

- the most proven and winter-hardy variety of blackberry (black) raspberries. Gardeners rank it among the black raspberries and black raspberries. It is very resistant to diseases and does not clog the garden, as it does not sprout. The ripening period is average. A bush 1.5-2 m high with thick shoots, arched, pubescent, strongly spiny with a thick waxy coating.
- modern popular raspberry- blackberry hybrid. It has long powerful creeping shoots of burgundy color. Tyberry has small thorns on the shoots. Resistant to diseases and pests, does not need preventive treatments. Tayberry Ezhemalina is a very productive variety. Grows well and bears fruit on all types of soil, responsive to application large quantity well-rotted compost. In the spring, after removing overwintered leaves by pruning, it is necessary to correctly distribute the shoots on the trellis so that they do not shade each other. Tayberry begins to bloom in July; before flowering, it is advisable to feed the bushes with a solution of organic or microbiological fertilizer. Hanging brush, with 4-6 berries.
The berries of this variety are red-raspberry in color, highly elongated, cone-shaped, up to 4 cm long and 2 cm in diameter. The average weight of the berries reaches 8 g. There is no waxy coating. Taste with a raspberry tint, pleasant. The ripening period is early, coinciding with the ripening of ordinary raspberries. There are 5-6 berries in a bunch, the yield is up to 6 kg per bush.
If raspberries and blackberries are familiar to all gardeners, then very few know about the raspberry-blackberry hybrid Ezhmalin. These shrubs have not yet become widespread in our personal plots- and completely in vain. Pleasant taste, high yield, the decorative nature of plants is not a reason to start cultivating this crop?

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Raspberry VERA

When planting plants on permanent place they try to maintain a distance between plants of 1 m, and between rows of 1.5-2 m. Naturally, best results are achieved on a trellis, its optimal height is 1.5 m. Immediately after planting, the seedlings are shortened to a height of 25 cm, and the bush circles must be watered and mulched. In the future, they monitor the plant, remove fruit-bearing shoots, and in the fall the bushes are bent to the ground and covered with spruce branches or fallen leaves.

But Russia did not lag behind the West, and already at the very beginning of the 20th century, Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin created the first and still significant raspberry and blackberry varieties: Progress, Commerce and Productive.

The soil under bushes that do not produce offspring is not dug up, but covered with a layer of mulch of 6-10 cm. Husks, sawdust, mushroom compost, straw chaff are suitable for this, but best option- humus.

The fact that blackberries are spreading throughout the area is a persistent misconception.

Raspberry VOLNITSA

About 10 years ago I received a Tayberry bush as a gift, and the same year I was able to try a couple of my berries. All the positive emotions ended there.... The next year there were a lot of wasps - they got the entire poor harvest, but I was glad that my bush gave a good growth (I plan to cook jam in buckets next year!!!) My patience It was enough for 3 years, then the same amount of time was spent fighting the strange berry, no, no, and it will pop out!! ! The berry looks interesting, but the taste is nonsense, it takes up a lot of space... But the thorns are excellent!

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The yield of the Vera raspberry variety is high (89-129 c/ha).

RASPBERRY-BLACKBERRY hybrid

Pay attention to the photo:

Watch the video “Ezhemalina Loganberry” to better imagine what this plant looks like:

You can find a description of the raspberry varieties, as well as photographs of these shrubs and their fruits on this page.

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Who planted Tayberry's raspberry-blackberry hybrid? Is it worth planting, does it winter well?

Irina Shabalina

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Not competing, but rather keeping up with the times, the American breeder L. Burbank at the same time developed his varieties Primus and Phenomenal. Pretty productive varieties were obtained in England. The most famous, perhaps, to this day is the Tayberry variety obtained there.

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Another huge advantage of this crop is the almost complete absence of pests and diseases. Viral infections, although discovered by American researchers, do not have symptoms and do not lead to a decrease in yield. When the berries come into contact with the soil, the lower brushes may appear gray rot. Most often, pests and diseases (raspberry gall midge and anthracnose) affect raspberry-blackberry hybrids.

Valentina Timofeeva

The absence of offspring is the main advantage of most varieties. With the right agricultural technology, garden blackberries can grow in one place for a long time, producing only replacement shoots and without clogging the plantation. And for propagation it is enough to bury the top of the replacement shoot.

Margot

Garden blackberries are increasingly found on summer cottages in various regions of Russia. There are two large groups: directly garden blackberries and raspberry-blackberry hybrids. The first has fairly large shiny black berries. In hybrids they are also rather large, but often of a different color and with a more interesting raspberry-blackberry aroma. And they ripen earlier. But, unfortunately, in the conditions of the middle zone, hybrids are inferior in yield to blackberries. Although the growing process requires the same effort. Many varieties of blackberries (Thornless, Evergreen, Black Satin, Smutstem) are only slightly inferior to some raspberry-blackberry hybrids in berry quality. But the difference in yield is significant. You can remove from 10 to 25 kg of fruit from one adult bush. At the stage of technical maturity, they are quite hard, sweet and sour, and pleasant to the taste. Withstands transportation. Overripe berries are fresh-sweet, aromatic, but suitable only for consumption on site or processing.
I have it too and I don’t feel any delight either. Barbed. The spines are small, solid, even the petioles of the leaves. The shoots are long and require trellises. The shoots are not growing for me - the tops are taking root. The berry is large, dark red. Sweet and sour, with some kind of peculiar aftertaste - I personally don’t like it - as if doused with perfume. There is a clone variety Buckingham Tayberry - the same as Tayberry, only without thorns. The photo shows Tayberry berries, only a little unripe.

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Raspberry variety of medium ripening, universal use, non-repairable. Tasting score 4.0 points.

Garden blackberry, All about blackberry and its hybrids

All about berries: Interesting Facts and photo

Tayberry berries have dark red berries and an elongated shape. Their taste is similar to that of raspberries with a candy flavor. Productivity - 5 kg per bush. Ripening begins in mid-August, lasting 3-4 weeks. Young shoots are directed in the opposite direction from the fruiting ones and pinched to develop lateral branches. For the winter, fruit-bearing shoots are cut out, and young shoots require additional shelter.

Boysenberry (Boysenberry)

Raspberry-blackberry hybrids are known among gardeners under the names of raspberry or logan berry. Today they are still not widespread enough; in a word, they cannot be found in every garden. But they need to be acquired and cultivated.

Garden blackberries in winter.

Modern mid-season variety. A powerful shrub, reaching a height of 1.5 m, with beautiful leaves. Ripe, elongated berries, more like blackberries, ripen in August. Tayberry fruits are large, more than 5 g, sweet and sour, with a blackberry flavor, reddish at the beginning and almost black when fully ripe. Fruiting is annual, from late August until frost. The yield is very high, often exceeding 10 kg per bush of delicious berries suitable for all types of processing. The variety is less winter-hardy than raspberries, but differs from it in much greater drought resistance and productivity.

Some have probably heard that there is a hybrid of raspberries and strawberries. Someone even managed to try the fruits of this plant, which are indeed unusual in appearance. So have breeding scientists really reached such heights in science that they have learned to cross shrubs with herbaceous plants? But no, this is still impossible.

Raspberry + strawberry = hybrid?

The fact is that someone, out of ignorance, and someone, in order to earn more money by selling outlandish seedlings, is presenting a variety of raspberry, which is unfamiliar in our country, as a hybrid of two such dissimilar plants. It has many interesting names:

rosaline or roseleaf;
zemmaline;
Tibetan;
strawberry;
seductive;
blackberry;
raspberries.

The berries of such an unusual raspberry are large, bright, and very decorative. They have a fresh strawberry aroma and a sour taste, reminiscent of blackberries with pleasant and fresh pineapple notes.

Description of the plant

So, rosolin is a subshrub native to East Asia. In nature, it is found in mixed forests and on mountain slopes. Under natural conditions, its height reaches 3 meters. However, raspberries that grow in gardens are somewhat more modest in size - no more than 1.5 m in height.

The plant is unusually decorative, so it is often used to decorate garden plots rather than as a fruit crop. Tibetan raspberries are also good for hedges, not only pleasing the eyes of happy owners, but also protecting the territory from uninvited guests with fluffy prickly branches.

Leaves

The leaves have some similarity in appearance to the leaves of a rose, hence the botanical name of the shrub - rose-leaved raspberry. They are bright green with yellowish veins, as if corrugated, and are collected in groups of 5–7 on petioles. In addition, small teeth along the edges give the leaves special tenderness, charm and beauty.

Flowers

The flowers are quite large, up to 5 cm in diameter, solitary, white, and consist of five petals. The flowering of the shrub begins in July and continues until autumn, with flowers constantly opening next to the ripening berries.

Fruit

Strawberry raspberries are juicy, bright red, sometimes the size of Walnut. They grow upward. They resemble strawberries in shape and, since they are not hidden in the foliage, they are very noticeable from afar.

In a word, “a hybrid of raspberries and strawberries” is a low shrub with a rounded crown and beautiful leaves, long time strewn with flowers and berries, which allows it to play an important role in landscape design, decorating lawns, rock gardens and coniferous plantings.

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The unusual raspberries have one more similarity with rose bushes, although not the most pleasant - these are large, sharp thorns. The plant is very thorny, so planting and processing should be carried out exclusively with thick gloves. Moreover, even dry branches can scratch, which is why it is better to burn them at the stake as soon as possible.

Planting and propagation

Plant seductive raspberries on the south side of the garden in the sunniest areas. In areas with hot, dry summers, it tolerates partial shade well. It can be arranged in individual bushes or in rows, placing it in holes or small trenches when planting, respectively. In this case, it is necessary to maintain a distance of 0.7–0.9 m between the bushes, and at least 1.5 m between the rows.

Strawberry raspberries can grow on almost any soil, but prefer fertile and fairly loose ones. Therefore, every landing hole It is recommended to add 1 bucket of peat and 0.5 buckets of manure humus. Abundant watering after planting is also important.

Advice. Plant raspberries in autumn period before the onset of stable frosts (second half of September - October). It is at this time that there is a high probability that the plant will take root in the new place and will not get sick. At the first significant cold snap, earth up the plant by covering the roots 30 cm with soil.

Rosaline reproduces by root suckers, of which many grow during the season. The presence of abundant basal growth forces you to choose a place for the shrub where the raspberries will not interfere with other plants, or limit the growth space accessible ways(for example, a buried slate barrier).

To plant a root shoot in a new place, you just need to carefully dig it out with a sharp knife. bayonet shovel along with a large lump of earth.

How to care for Tibetan raspberries?

Roseleaf raspberries are unpretentious, but nevertheless require basic care. In summer, in dry weather, the bush needs to be watered regularly, and in hot weather, this should be done daily, preferably at night. In addition, to prevent the soil from drying out, it is recommended to mulch, especially with single plantings of raspberries. It is better to choose peat chips, compost or humus as mulch.

Despite the fact that Tibetan raspberries are moisture-loving, they do not tolerate severe waterlogging and prolonged stagnation of water. It should not be planted in lowlands where spring meltwater collects or where puddles form for a long time after rain.

The root system of strawberry raspberries is located close to the soil surface, so loosening should be carried out with extreme caution. The same goes for removing weeds. Rip them out better with your hands so as not to damage the roots of the rosalina, and thereby not destroy the plant.

Feeding the bush is usually carried out in the spring, scattering 4-5 tablespoons of universal mineral fertilizer without chlorine.

The harvest is harvested as the berries ripen. They are very juicy, have a unique sweet and sour taste, and smell like strawberries. They are consumed fresh and are also well suited for preserves, jams, jelly and compotes. They rarely cause allergies. They do not tolerate transportation well, so they practically do not go on sale.

By winter, the shoots of Tibetan raspberries completely die off. Therefore, after the end of fruiting, the entire above-ground part of the bush is cut off flush with the ground, and the roots are sprinkled. Raspberries only need shelter during particularly harsh winters with little snow. But it tolerates moderate frosts well.

So, we figured out that the existence of a hybrid of raspberries and strawberries is just a beautiful myth invented by enterprising sellers planting materials. Nevertheless, the plant is real. And it doesn’t really matter what name it bears. The main thing is that the unusual shrub has many wonderful qualities, and it has found its loyal fans among numerous gardeners and landscape designers. Perhaps one day you will be among the admirers.

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Wild blackberries form continuous thickets along the banks of rivers in central Russia. There are a lot of greens in blackberry thickets, but there are usually few berries. And this one’s taste, as they say, is “not for everyone”...

At the beginning of October I started lowering the plants. Imagine my surprise when I easily twisted the blackberry vine into a ring (about one meter in diameter) and then safely lowered it to the ground - it turned out to be so flexible. I placed a heavy board on top and covered it with covering material.
We already had a sad experience once when spring sun Our adults were burned. It is for this reason that they threw light material over the garden blackberries and then securely attached it (with clothespins, right behind the branches) so that it would not be blown away by the wind.

The second year of growing garden blackberries

And now the second spring has come for our garden blackberries.
The overwintered plants emerged from under the snow completely green. All the leaves remaining on the blackberry shoots from the fall were alive - this again led us to bewilderment.
The branches of the garden blackberry remained just as flexible after wintering. Therefore, tying them up by lifting them onto a support was easy.

Looking at both purchased garden blackberry seedlings, we were at first perplexed. Outwardly they were no different from each other; and there was an impression that they were of the same type...
It should be especially noted that, unlike wild blackberries, both of our garden blackberry plants do not have sharp thorns, which completely simplifies the care of this crop.

The overwintered garden blackberries were safely tied to metal supports, and our observations of this crop continued.

As the sun warmed up more and more, last year's blackberry leaves began to dry out, and young shoots began to grow quickly from each bud under the dried leaf.
Imagine a blackberry vine four meters long, having 5-7 side branches of 2-3 meters each, and along the entire length of these shoots, after a short distance (after about 15 cm), fruit-bearing shoots 20-30 cm long began to grow. A mass of growing garden blackberry bushes increased catastrophically! It’s good that the supports for growing blackberries were installed securely.

Flowering and fruiting of garden blackberries

Fruit shoots on the horizontal branches of garden blackberries rose vertically upward and stood straight, like candles!

At the beginning of June, garden blackberries began to bloom.
Varietal blackberries were the first to bloom. The raspberry-blackberry hybrid was about a week behind (although according to the description it should have been the other way around).
Both of our plants produced attractive flowers. soft pink color, about 3 cm in diameter.

The flowering of the garden blackberries was abundant and long lasting, and we were looking forward to the first harvest.

The Black Satin varietal blackberry began to ripen first. It’s hard to even find words to convey the look of a garden blackberry bush with ripening berries!
Its branches, looking into the sky during flowering, began to turn towards the ground. The blackberry clusters were very elegant, and the black shiny berries were large and... sour. Only after the blackened berries of the varietal blackberry had hung on the plant for about a week did they become increasingly sweeter. Looking at these luxurious berries, I couldn’t believe that their taste did not correspond to the attractive appearance.

The raspberry-blackberry hybrid “Silvan” bloomed later, and its berries began to ripen later than varietal blackberries (in mid-August).
In appearance, the berries of this hybrid were very similar to the Black Satin varietal blackberry, but unexpected joy awaited us here. The ripe berries of the raspberry-blackberry hybrid turned out to be absolutely sweet! And since the ripening of its berries, to our delight, is extended, we had the opportunity to feast on them until the end of September.

Features of garden blackberry jam

I made jam from garden blackberries.

Still, the boiled garden blackberries turned out to be very interesting!
For one kilogram of blackberries I put 1 kg of granulated sugar. If you cook jam in this proportion with sugar, it turns out completely sour. And the blackberry jam turned out to be too sweet, with a very interesting aftertaste.
True, we must pay tribute that many of those who tried blackberries found them quite edible.

Those gardeners who like to make all kinds of delicious preparations from their own berries should say that cultivated blackberries, like wild blueberries, have many healing properties, and its berries have a very original taste.

Garden blackberries in garden design

For now, we decided to leave both garden blackberry bushes in our garden.

With varietal blackberries, given our limited space, we will regularly thin out the growing bush, otherwise it will form an unimaginably large amount of greenery. And next year all the flowering branches will intertwine, and numerous blackberries will become moldy in the depths of the bush. And we don’t need such a huge number of berries!
Garden blackberries are beautiful throughout the season. This ornamental plant can be used for vertical gardening gazebos or to decorate an unsightly structure in the garden.

It is important that both of our garden blackberry plants do not produce basal shoots and form few replacement shoots. This is very good sign plants for the gardener. There is no need to constantly monitor what is somewhere in a bush or other ornamental plant an unnecessary blackberry shoot will come out.

Cuttings from garden blackberries

Garden blackberry bushes, like blackberry bushes, have fruit branches that break off very easily. This does not cause grief, since blackberries have too many of them.

Several branches of garden blackberries that had broken off after a strong wind, we tried to root them, having previously pinched the emerging flower buds.

The rooting of garden blackberry cuttings went without problems, and by autumn our young seedlings managed to form a powerful root system.
We hope for their safe winter and look forward to a new spring...

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Raspberries are one of the most popular berries among the people, in addition to growing in gardens, this berry can be found in forest clearings and edges. The closest relative of raspberries, blackberries are also popular and are very similar to raspberries. Have you heard about ezhemalina and do you know what it is?

– this variety is one of the best among the raspberries. This raspberry-blackberry hybrid is quite new variety, whose berries have an amazing aroma and taste that surpasses both raspberries and blackberries. Initially, this hybrid was prickly, with a powerful bush. Nowadays, thornless plants are being bred, but the size and yield of these species is less than that of thorny crops. Boysenberry raspberry begins to bear fruit at the end of July and continues until the end of August. As the berries ripen, they change color from deep cherry to an inky shade. The berries are glossy, large, up to 12 g. You can collect up to 5 kg of berries from one bush.

Did you know? Raspberries - medicinal plant and one of the most delicious medicines. Our distant ancestors used medicinal purposes not only berries, but also stems, leaves and flowers of raspberries. Today, only the lazy one does not know about the benefits of raspberry jam and the incomparable taste of tea from raspberry sticks.

Darrow

Ezhemalina variety Darrow – This is a bush up to three meters high, with strong, upright, prickly stems. The variety has decorative finger-shaped leaves. The berries are small - up to 4 g in weight, when ripe, almost black, glossy, elongated. The variety is tall and the shoots are long, therefore, so that under the weight of leaves and berries, and the yield of the variety is high, the stems do not break, they need a garter. By taste qualities Darrow is inferior to Boysenberry because the taste has a certain sourness. But Darrow has excellent winter hardiness, withstanding temperatures down to -34 degrees. This allows it to be grown in regions with cold weather conditions. The yield of the hybrid is encouraging: up to 10 kg of berries can be harvested from one bush.

Important! For planting raspberries, you need to choose a site protected from drafts, illuminated, with a deep level of occurrence groundwater, with drained and nutritious soil.

Ezhemalina Loganberry, as stated in the description of the variety, is one of the most famous raspberry-blackberry hybrids bred in the USA. The hybrid is distinguished by a creeping bush; shoots can be with or without thorns. In the Thornless Loganberry variety, the stems and petioles of the foliage, as well as the foliage itself, are pubescent with a soft pile. The foliage of the hybrid is grayish-green, with a silvery lower part of the plate. The bush is not particularly branched, but as it grows, the number of side shoots increases. The ripening period is the same as for raspberries. The berries are cone-shaped, up to 4 cm long and about 2 cm in diameter, the weight of the berry is up to 8 g. The taste is more like the sweetness of raspberries than blackberries, the color of the berries is also light - crimson. The variety's clusters bear up to six berries; up to 6 kg can be collected from one bush.

Tyberry raspberry varietyIt is distinguished by long, creeping shoots of burgundy color, with small thorns. Flowering begins in July, and berries ripen in the second half of August. On hanging clusters there are up to six almost burgundy, elongated berries. The taste of the berries is similar to raspberry, and the pleasant aroma is reminiscent of candy. The Tayberry raspberry variety has good yield indicators - 5 kg per bush.

The main advantage of the variety is resistance to diseases. In addition, the variety grows on all types of soil. The shoots of the variety need to be tied to trellises, and they must be positioned correctly: the stems should not shade each other. The hybrid responds well to the addition of organic matter in early spring.

Attention! In cold climate regions creeping varieties Raspberries need to be prepared for the winter. Remove the stems from the supports, lay them on the ground and cover. Straw, foliage, peat, and spruce branches can be used as covering material.

Texas

Texas variety raspberries described as a crop suitable for cultivation in regions with frosty winters. The plant bears fruit well even in cold summer conditions. The downside of the variety is the abundance of thorns and not too sweet taste. The advantage is the yield of the variety - up to 6 kg of berries per bush and high productivity - up to 15 years. This hybrid of blackberries and raspberries has a bush with creeping shoots, the length of which is up to 4 m. Large leaves are green at the top and whitish at the bottom. The bush blooms with fragrant large flowers; by the way, there are even thorns on the peduncle. The berries, when ripe, turn from scarlet to deep burgundy. The taste of the berries is sweet and sour.

Interesting! In ancient times, blackberries were considered magical plant, many pagan religions and cults of Europe used blackberries in their rituals. In everyday life, blackberries, or rather their juice, were used to dye fabrics.

A hybrid of blackberries and raspberries has absorbed best qualities both berries. Thanks to its rich composition, Ezhemalina has undoubted health benefits. The berries contain micro- and macroelements such as magnesium, zinc, calcium, copper, iron, potassium, in addition, vitamins B, K, PP and E. Regular consumption of berries will saturate the body with almost all the substances it needs.

Raspberry-blackberry hybrids are considered one of the most promising areas for breeding these plants. From blackberries, new varieties inherit high yields, unpretentiousness to soil and cultivation conditions, and from raspberries - their crown winter hardiness and relative thornlessness of stems.

The very first variety was a hybrid that formed naturally in the USA, and it was called Logan's blackberry in honor of the one who found it at the end of the 19th century. Subsequently, new hybrid plants appeared - Boysen's blackberry, Young's blackberry, which, without using special ingenuity, were named according to the same principle.

Loganberry

Loganberry is a raspberry-blackberry hybrid that combines the economically useful characteristics of both raspberries and blackberries. In Russia, this plant is little known and is found only in the areas of amateur gardeners. The positive characteristics of the variety are: the complete absence of thorns, larger and much tastier berries, high yield, sufficient winter hardiness, and even high decorative qualities.

The variety forms spreading bushes with arched stems reaching a height of 1.5-2 m and requiring staking. Another plus is the complete absence of root growth. A plant of this variety blooms in the middle zone already in mid-June and blooms for up to one and a half months. During this period, plants are characterized by increased decorativeness: brushes consisting of 15-20 large pale pink seven-petalled flowers stand out very well against the background of greenery. And during the fruiting period, the plants are also spectacular and very decorative. The berry ripening period of the variety is extended - from mid-August until the very frosts, however, this late ripening of the berries is also a valuable property of the plant. The very first berries are large, reaching a weight of 10 g, elongated, shiny and very sweet. From one bush you can collect up to 10 kg of berries.

The Loganberry variety is very easily propagated by rooting the tops of annual shoots, woody and green cuttings.

When planting plants in a permanent place, they try to maintain a distance between plants of 1 m, and between rows of 1.5-2 m. Naturally, the best results are achieved on a trellis, its optimal height is 1.5 m. Immediately after planting, the seedlings are shortened to a height of 25 cm, be sure to water and mulch the bite circles. In the future, they monitor the plant, remove fruit-bearing shoots, and in the fall the bushes are bent to the ground and covered with spruce branches or fallen leaves.

The most good results are obtained when growing this variety on a trellis, since Tayberry shoots are quite heavily loaded with fruits and, under their weight, hang down to the very ground, this causes them to become dirty, take on an unmarketable appearance, and the shoots may even break.