This Week In the Garden
Preparing Blackberry Plants for Winter

This week in the garden retired UT Extension Agent Mike Dennison gives our blackberry plants a fall check-up. Some of the leaves have spots and some of the canes are dead. The leaf spots are okay and will not affect the plant. Mike cuts off the dead canes and trims the ends of some canes that were hit with a lawnmower. He does not fertilize because fertilizer would encourage new growth which would be killed by winter frost.

October 7, 2017

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