How to prune Thornless Blackberries

Lovely Greens is now on PATREON: Winter is the perfect time to prune thornless blackberry canes and tie in green wood to a trellis. This perennial fruit is one of the easiest to grow in your home vegetable garden. All the care it needs each year is a top dressing of compost/manure and taking out of the dead wood once a year. True to their name, thornless blackberries don’t have thorns. That makes them very easy to handle and to harvest from. Most varieties won’t send up runners either so they won’t take over your garden like their wild cousin, the bramble blackberry, will do. Best of all, their fruit is big, juicy, and delicious. Thornless blackberries are floricane -- meaning the berries grow only on second year wood. The first year the canes will be lush and covered with leaves. They’ll overwinter and then the following year they’ll put out flowers, and then berries. After the second year the cane will die and needs to be taken ou