Blackberry in Siberia, landing and care

Blackberry is a fairly popular garden culture. Today there are about 400 varieties of this berry. But despite this, care for each species is practically equally. An exception will be only the cultivation of this culture in Siberia.

How to grow blackberry in Siberia

The cultivation of blackberries in this geographic region is not too complex. However, to get a big harvest with each bush, you need to be able to correctly take care of these shrubs.

Features of growing blackberries in Siberia

1. Blackberry is a culture that does not tolerate frosts very well. The lowest temperature that the bush can withstand is -20 ° C. Therefore, to protect the shoots and root system, the bushes should be stolen before the beginning of the winter season.
2. Some varieties are able to calmly carry the temperature in -30 ° C, but even such bushes are best to protect to achieve a better harvest.
3. To obtain a large harvest with blackberry bushes, their landing must be carried out in places that:

• well lit;
• the sun is as much as possible;
• protected from wind exposure.

4. The best time for planting this culture is spring. If you plant the blackberry at such a time, it can be better to root and strengthen. She will have more time for a set of sufficient amounts required for wintering. Landing in the spring will help protect blackberry bushes from freezing.

Blackberry for the Urals and Siberia

1. It is easy to grow a blackberry in the Urals and in Siberia, if you correctly pick up a variety and ensure the culture of proper care.
2. For cultivation in such conditions, special blackberry varieties are needed, which can well tolerate frosts. Such bushes should have at least three, but strong shoots. The leafs and root system of the bush should not be covered with stains.
3. This culture will not grow in a place where the soil is not capable of fertility and looseness. Such a plot necessarily need to be protected from drafts.

Blackberry varieties for Siberia

1. There are quite many varieties of culture that can be planted in Siberia. It is important not to be mistaken and pick up such that in so harsh conditions will be able to give the most important crop.
2. When choosing a variety of culture, you must definitely pay attention to the frost resistance, which it has. Best blackberry varieties for Siberia are considered:

• "El Dorado";
• "Erie";
• Snyder;
• "Oregon";
• "Triple Crow";
• "Darrow";
• "Karaka Black".

Rules landing blackberries in Siberia

Blackberry bushes that will be grown in Siberia in harsh conditions should be planted in the right places and receive proper care. When choosing a plot, the gardener needs to pay attention to certain points.

Blackberry in Siberia: Preparation before landing

1. The plot selected for landing should not be in the shade.
2. Sunlight is obliged to fall on the entire area on which bushes will be planted.
3. The land on the plot can not be too wet or swampy, but also the sand should not be prevalent.
4. Before the direct landing in the selected territory, it is necessary to free it from all weeds.
5. There should be no rhizomes in the ground.
6. The soil must be carefully accurate. It is not necessary to carry out too deep steps to exercise, there will be a depth in the bayonet shovel.
7. The soil before planting should be supported with a mixture of organic and minerals. It is important to make fertilizers in sufficient quantities, namely: on a part of a plot of 1 square meters. m. You need 10 kg.
8. After processing the site, you need to prepare bushes for landing. Start important with soaking seedlings in water. It is necessary to hold them in this state about 12 hours.

Blackberry planting process in Siberia

Sold blackberry bushes is necessary as follows.

1. On the prepared portion of the soil should be dug holes. The distance between two adjacent pits can be at least 1.5 m.
2. The wells are digging into several rows. Between two neighboring beds, the distance should reach 2.5 m or 3 m mark. Since the root system of this culture lies quite deeply, the wells need to dig out are rather small.
3. The size of one site for the landing should be 0.5 x 0.5 m. It is recommended to dig up a pillow. The landing wells must be prepared 10 days before the start of the boarding of blackberry bushes.
4. Bushes must be planted strictly vertically. The root neck is better to bulk about 3 cm, but not more. If you neglect these recommendations, even the most thorough care will not help achieve good results. Planting bushes can even die.
5. At the bottom of the wells you need to make a little hollyk, the roots of the bush will be located.
6. After the bush is plunged into the hole, you need to dig a small furrow around it. The seedling should be well water water and 1 water bucket is better to divide between two seedlings.
7. After irrigation, you need to make the soil mulch. At the same time covered only the zone around the planted bush.
8. After all these manipulations, blackberry bushes need to be prunned. All shoots should remain no more than 5 cm branches over the ground. All other parts need to cut.
9. Young shoots are recommended to immediately tie. Special stakes are installed around the bustle, to which the wire is stretched into several rows. So that the bushes subsequently were more convenient to process, you need to tie down in different places and from different sides.

Blackberry bushes care in Siberia: Rules

From the moment of landing, the bush will be held around six months before several shoots appear, quite strong in order to give a good harvest. This will happen closer to autumn. During the spring and summer seasons, it is necessary to provide small blackberry bushes and careful care.

1. The gardener needs to constantly disappear soil. This is done not only between neighboring shoots of one row, but also in areas located between landed.
2. Two-year-old shoots that have already brought fruits should be regularly cut.
3. In the fall, it is necessary to create shelters for the winter.
4. With the arrival of the spring season, a timely ascent to special supports should be carried out.
5. Each year during the spring, each blackberry variety should receive feeding in the form of urea. 25 g per 1 square meter. m.
6. Once every three years, all bushes need to fertilize with the help of humus in the amount of 10 kg per separate bush.
7. All blackberry varieties need regular systemic watering. It is important that it is carried out in sufficient quantities. The soil should not be too moving, especially when the bush blooms or brings fruit.
8. During the first years, the bushes need to water the fan-like method. At the same time, the screens that grow, you need to raise and carefully tie. At the same time, small shoots, just beginning their height, should be sent to the area of \u200b\u200bthe bush.
9. During the autumn season, immediately after the cessation of fruiting, it is necessary to prepare all bushes to wintering. For this, all old shoots need to completely cut.
10. Young vacuums should be laid in a special, dug-out trench. This will help in organizing shelter. Each bush needs to be coated with a special material, which can be used branches of fir trees, leaves or sawdust of wood. If you neglect the defense for the blackberry, it may not survive the winter and die before the beginning of the spring. This concerns even enough frost-resistant varieties. Without due protection, even such bushes can suffer greatly.
11. With the arrival of spring, the first thing to be done is to free all the bushes from the protective coating created for the winter. This procedure must be made until the kidney appears on shoots. It should be borne in mind that the more frost-resistant is the variety, the earlier the bush will wake up.
12. Next, you need to make the form of shape to the bushes and raise growing shoots to the tag. All these actions need to be repeated until the bushes begin to bear fruit. Do not at the same time forget about watering.

Quite often plants of this species, even one variety, can begin to bear fruit at a completely different time. But, regardless of this, the berries need to start collecting only when they mature. Harvesting is best carried out in several stages. Remember that the ripened berry will be easy to disconnect from the cup.

Often, when collecting harsh berries, some difficulties arise. Each blackberry variety has a different number of spikes on shoots, so you need to be careful when collecting berries. Today you can find such varieties of bushes, whose shoots are completely uncovered with spines. These include the Tornfi grade. Such bushes can also be grown in Siberia, but it is also impossible to neglect the protection of the bushes of this variety.

Blackberry cultivation in Siberia: reviews

1. According to the reviews left by the gardeners, which for a long time are engaged in the boarding of blackberries, certain problems often occur. At the overwhelming majority of novice lovers, this culture simply does not take root in sites in Siberia. The main cause of such trouble becomes an incorrectly selected place for landing. The second reason is the lack of proper culture care.
2. Gardeners who have this plant beeps well, advise to follow her as carefully. From their observations, you can add that it is a berry, which is not so demanding to the soil and can wear drought well. But if care for it is not good enough, then there will immediately have problems with harvest.
3. Some experienced specialists advise the culture along the fence. It will become an extra support for it, with which she will be easier to grow.
4. Blackberry can be tried to plant not only in spring. Those who landed this plant in the fall are reported that it is growing no worse. It is only important that the culture is already planted until the cold appears. But still the best result is achieved when landing in the warm season. Gardeners advise to choose the period of early spring to avoid the risk of freezing young seedlings.
5. This culture grows quite well both in sandy soils and in the sublinks. Soil acidity level can reach 6.2 pH.
6. It is not recommended to plant blackberry in too wet soil. Because of this, new shoots appear only by autumn. They do not have time to ripen to the beginning of frost, therefore the stability of the plant to cold is much reduced.
7. It is also impossible to plant this berry also in carbonate soil. In such a soil, there are very little iron and magnesium, which is extremely necessary for normal growth and development of bushes. The deficiency of these elements leads to diseases of culture. The most common one is chlorosis of leaves.
8. Blackberry can also be planted on those areas where field herbs, cereal and perennial bean plants were previously grown. On the ground where the deposit grew, blackberry is also good enough. However, it is better not to land a culture in places where grazing plants grew. Especially if it was pepper, tomatoes or potatoes.
9. Such shrubs will give a good harvest if irrigated to carry out regularly. The more often irrigation throughout the first year, the greater will be the first harvest. Next watering the bushes only during periods of drought, but it is worth remembering that this berry is best of all feeling with sufficient water. For watering, it is also better to use warm water.
10. So that the bushes grew well, it is important to regularly carry them out. This procedure must be carried out not only with those branches that have been extinctioned. All other shoots are also recommended a little bit. It is enough to shorten them up to 2 m. If the planted variety is griming, then you can leave 3 m. In the fall you need to remove all the shoots that the fruits have brought.
11. To increase the crop effectively will apply a piece of chip. The very first time it is carried out in the late spring or early summer. You can only subjected to those shoots that have reached the size of 80 cm.
12. Blackberry, which grows in Siberia, need good protection during the winter. Best twigs bend to the ground and bind. It is done very carefully to damage anything. From above, the bush needs to be covered with a coating that protects it from the cold. Very good with this is coping with a mixture of leaves with peat. You can also put the snow on top of this embankment. The snow layer will provide additional protection and help the chisture to survive the cold. Ensuring shelter is important for all blackberry varieties that are grown in Siberia.