How To Plant Brambles?

The bramble family consists of blackberry, raspberry, and dewberry plants which have branches that take the form of thorny canes growing in clusters. The canes take a variety of shapes which are upright stems, arched stems, and vines that grow horizontally and close to the ground, and vines that cling to either one another or sometimes people like to have them trained to go on a garden feature that they have in their garden. They are sometimes trained around structures such as fences, arbors, gates, posts, columns, or statues. Trellises and pergolas are the most common features used for that purpose. Most brambles have thorns, but they have some varieties that does not have thorns. One of the most hardiest of the thorn less blackberries is  Chester blackberry. Some people consider brambles as being weeds, but the fruit that they produce is very delicious. The berries are often used by being baked in cobblers or turned into jams or jellies. Sometimes they are eaten with ice cream, or a layer in a parfait with yogurt and granola.

Before beginning the planting process, you will need to know that the root systems of brambles are perennial, which means they produce canes every year, but they produce fruit biennially or every other year. The non fruiting canes are called primocanes. The ones that produce flowers and  fruit are called floricanes. Now when these canes finish their fruiting season they will die. When this happens, the roots begin growing the primocanes for the following 'vegetable' season, as the non-fruiting season  is called by horticulturists. Now if your strawberry canes bear fruit in  2010, this will be their fruiting, or floricane season. In 2010 your plant will grow only primocanes, so that summer it will be considered its vegetative season. The following season which is the summer of 2012, will be a fruiting season. If you take care of your brambles real good, they will live and produce fruit for as long as ten years.

Before you plant your brambles, you will need to take careful consideration of the prevailing climate conditions. The brambles need to be protected from strong, dry winds, but if you choose to plant a row of hedges close to where you have planted your brambles this will help out your brambles. The air circulation that a gentle breeze provides  will protect the roots from a developing a fungal disease. You will need to  keep the soil moist where you have planted your brambles and make sure the roots do not get saturation by standing water, this will help prevent the development of fungal diseases. If you have humid summers where you live, this might contribute to this risk. They grow better in cooler northern states of the country, particularly where there are mountains and boreal forests.

If you prepare your soil right for planting brambles you will ensure a long and productive life for your plants. They grow in soil that is slightly more acidic[ pH of 5.8 to 6.2]. They thrive best in soil that is at  least three percent organic, usually a mix of sand and loam that is prepared a year before you plant and you have to keep it moist. By having this  mixture this  is used to suppress weed growth., but weeding  may be done on a regular basis to keep the growing bramble roots free of  unwanted weeds. It is very important  to not planted your brambles in soil that you have planted potatoes, tomatoes, melon, strawberries and eggplant because they may carry viruses that will kill your young plants. You need to not put your garden close to wild brambles, because they carry diseases that will  kill your domestically propagated plants. If you plan to turn over soil where grass has been growing, it is important to check very careful whether or not white grubs or wireworms are present. If you find them, it may be best to grow pumpkins or sweet corn on the site  of your future berries for a couple of years to purge the soil.
Before you even get any bramble plants, always take in consideration of the special needs of brambles, and you will need to know which varieties thrive best in your temperature zone. Blackberries tolerate deeper drops in temperature than raspberries and they remain firmer when they are ripe. They also tolerate higher amounts of humidity.

If you receives bramble cultivates in the mail, you will need to keep them warm and moist by planting them in the ground as early in the spring as the ground is soft enough to work with. At this time of the year, the air is still cool and not very humid. If you choose a cloudy, windless day in early spring you can have the ability that the roots will not be exposed to more sunlight or wind that they can withstand. Many  blackberry varieties, especially the trailing and semi-erect, they have roots that are especially light sensitive. If the roots are exposed to direct sunlight at the time of transplanting, they may not survive. If you give them plenty of water and sunshine, you will have a good abundance of berries.

Brambles are grown in rows and placed in the garden where they can grow for at least ten years. When digging rows of holes for planting them, it is important to leave room for movement around them. You also will have to fertilize often and stand close to the plant in order to harvest the berries.

Raspberries need to have a space of 8- 12 feet apart and they also need to be space 9-15 inches apart. Blackberries need to have a space of 10-12 feet apart and spacing 5-6 feet  apart. Dewberries need a space of 8-10 feet apart and a space of 3-4 feet apart.

The holes that you dig for brambles has to be wide enough to allow the roots to be spread out and to keep on growing.

Raspberries should be planted in the ground an inch deeper and this offers greater protection from temperature extremes.

Blackberries needs to be planted at the same depth that they are at the nursery.

The final step of the planting process is to refill the hole with soil and pack it down real good. Then water the soil around the roots of the planted brambles. Raspberries need to be fed a generous amount of potassium and nitrogen. By putting a layer of straw, this will keep the moisture.

SUMMARY

If you want to plant you some blackberries, raspberries, and dewberries for your own, if you go by the directions you should not have any problems.

What Are Figs?

Figs are a true taste of the Mediterranean. Figs need both a sunny spot to grow and they take a long season to ripen fully, but they will give you a good crop of figs in most gardens. Fig are planted in the spring and they are harvest in late summer through early fall. Fig trees will make big trees if they are not kept to a manageable size by restricting their roots, which also will encourages them to fruit more freely. If somebody lives in colder areas and wants to grow figs, figs can be grown in containers and protected during the winter. Figs can be grown in a space that is small.

My family and I live on my home place. We live in Louisiana and figs grow very plentiful here in Louisiana. My parents and I did not have any fig trees on our property, and we still do not have any, but I sure would love to be able to plant some fig trees on our property now.  My aunt and uncle who lives down the road from us had fig trees and we would go and pick some figs for us when they would  get ripen.

Figs are usually sold as a container-grown plants and they will do good when they are planted in mid-spring. Fig flowers do not need to be pollinated in order to set fruit, so they will need to grow one tree.

Here are four different varieties of figs.

'Rouge de Bordeaux'- produces very delicious figs and this particular type will need to be planted in a sheltered, warm spot to grow good.

'Brunswick'- this particular variety will need a mild site to crop well and the figs will be large and sweet, ready for eating in late summer.

''Brown Turkey' This one is  widely available and it will grow well in cool areas. The figs will be ready to eat in late summer.

'Panache' - this one produces unusual-looking striped fruit. It is best to plant this one close to a warm wall, because it needs to be  trained against a warm wall.

The soil needs to be turned over and the weeds needs to be removed out of the soil, and composted bark [not manure] or incorporate sharp grit added to the soil to ensure good drainage. To restrict the roots, a planting pit that is 24 inches by 24 inches big needs to be built and the fig tree planted into it. If a fig tree is going to be planted in a container, the container needs to be at least 24 inches wide and deep, stones or pieces of broken pot needs to be put in the base for drainage before you plant the fig tree and the containers needs to be planted the same depth as it was planted in the pot. After the fig tree is planted it needs to be water good and a stake needs to be hammer in the ground afterwards to be used as a suitable tree stake.

The routine care of fig trees is that they need to be watered  in their year. The trees are fully harder, but the tiny-fruitlets that overwinter from one year to the next can be damaged by frost. The trees that are free-standing and well-trained can be cover with garden fabric to protect them from the cold. The trees will benefit by from annual  purring. Because fig trees takes so long to ripe, our summers are to short, so the tiny fruitlets that is produced in late summer overwinter on the tree and they will be mature  the following summer. If there is any fruiltlets  that is larger than a pea-size it will not survive the winter, and they need to be taken off of the tree in late fall by snapping them off.

The figs need to  mature  [ripen] when you pick them off of the tree, because  they will not mature much more indoors. When the figs are ripe they will hang downward from the branch, they will be a sticky sap that appears at the bases, and they will soften and it will let out a slight scent, and they will pull easily from the tree.  Birds may go after the soft, ripe fruits.

Young trees only need pruning, so they can keep their shape. Older fig trees are pruned twice during the spring to promote fruiting and a healthy shape. In early spring, the older stems needs to be pruned to encourage new growth. In the later part of spring, the tips of the new growth needs to be.

pinch out so new formations of new fruits can grow.