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| A couple of you mentioned growing some of the more tender "trailing" or "West-Coast" blackberries and hybrids like Boysens and some of the newer ones last year. How did they fare this past winter from Hell? Did you protect them at all? |
This post was edited by hairmetal4ever on Mon, Jul 28, 14 at 15:52
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| What I protected survived, the canes that is. What I didn't, the canes died, but the crowns were fine except for Loganberry, the crown died too. I'm going to protect them better, use anti-desiccant sprays , and leaf cover. |
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| hairmetal4ever, There are a couple of very detailed threads that cover the results of overwintering the western trailing blackberries this year. I have included one below. In general, if you cover the trailing blackberries during the winter and keep the voles away, the blackberries will survive to some degree and produce fruit. If you don't cover them and the temperatures get below 15F, you will lose the canes on most of them pretty quickly. A few varieties are relatively hardy to 5F and maybe even 0F in the right location. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Blackberry and Raspberry Report (late Spring 2014)
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| Covering them works well we went to -14 F and 10 nights were below zero, and all covered survived. Boysenberry, Wyebrry, etc. |
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