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http://www.durgan.org/URL/?IZJEX 11 August 2010 Thornless Blackberry
Seven pounds of berries were picked from these two thornless blackberry plants in their third year, and the first year of production. The berries ripen over a three week period. Quality is excellent. All the berries have a slight tart taste. This depends on the degree of ripeness. If the berry is fully ripe, determined by it falling off the stem when touched, the berry will be sweet with almost no tart taste.

http://www.durgan.org/URL/?VCJSF 14 August 2010 Making Blackberry Juice.
Many blackberries are available, so juice is being made of the excess. A container of four cups of berries is filled with water, placed in a pot on the stove and gently boiled for about 20 minutes, with periodic mashing. The cooked mash is then run through a fine mesh screen. The finished product is of fine quality and nothing added. Pure!

I have some of these plants now so looking forward to a crop that is easy to harvest! Your two plants have bushed up very well - I originally took 2 from a friend but she gave me more and now have 5 - possibly too many by the looks of things!

The blackberries on our thorny bushes were amazing this year. Really plump and sweet. Other years they haven't been so good but I can't bring myself to buy new varieties when I've got access to so many wild ones.

So easy to freeze too.

Don't know why but our thornless blackberry hardly had any fruit on this year which was a bit of a shame as previous years have had a reasonable crop.

SUE

pelmetman wrote:Don't know why but our thornless blackberry hardly had any fruit on this year which was a bit of a shame as previous years have had a reasonable crop.

SUE

My blackberries were good quality in 20111 but there were few. I tend to attribute it to improper pruning. They are not easy to prune, since there are so many shoots available. This year I will proceed carefully and do a bit of thinking before cutting.

There are no wild blackberries in my area.

are thornless blackberry a good hedging plant, would love to plant them as a boundary plant, and i'm sure my bees will love them too :-)

Massey wrote:are thornless blackberry a good hedging plant, would love to plant them as a boundary plant, and i'm sure my bees will love them too :-)

I don't think they would be a desirable boundary plant. Blackberries certainly need support for quality growth and ease of picking he berries. Access to both sides of the plants is desirable. Some neighbours object to the vines crawling nature. Shoots grow up quite rapidly, a fair distance from the main shoots. The wild ones that I saw in Yorkshire were a real mess, crawling all over the ground, almost impossible to pick without being speared by the thorns.