Growing your own fresh blackberries and raspberries is incredible…unless they get overgrown, thorny, and unmanageable. Use this DIY berry trellis design to help contain these cane crops and make sure you get HUGE harvests of these nutritious and delicious fruits.
00:00 – Intro
00:13 – Overview
00:34 – Build Design
01:01 – Cutting Posts
02:01 – Setting Posts
03:09 – Crossbeams
04:13 – Fastener Explanation
05:14 – Installing Fasteners
06:16 – Wiring Up
07:34 – Complete Build
MATERIALS
2 ea 4×4′- 8′ Common Redwood
1 ea 2×4′- 8′ Common Redwwod
4 ea 5/16″ x 3″ Eye Bolt w/ Nut
4 ea 5/16″ Washers
4 ea 5/16″ Lock Washers
8 Screws or Bolts To Secure
2 ea 50lb Quickcrete
4 ea One Way Anchor Vise 12 Gauge
100′ 12 Gauge Galvanized Wire
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I forgot to tag you but I just found a local raspberries/blackberries bush plants near my house
Ever thought of tightening the wires? Or is it already taut?
I have been waiting for this one. You did not disappoint. Now I got to get my raspberries in line.
That long cane you show…looks like that is a black Raspberry cane….check the label (Jewel variety?)…if that's the case, you'll need to tie the cane along-side to the wires as they're be pretty stiff, have killer thorns, and grow more than 8 ft. long canes. I recommend raising black Raspberries on a separate trellis due to their different grow habits…it will be a mess if you allow red/yellow and black berries together, navigating the black raspberry thorns very tricky,nand agressive. If they're allowed to arch and tips touch the ground, they will tip root, and that's OK if you want to multiply your plants. Don't allow more than 4 canes rowing out from the mother clump, cut out any old brownish and weak canes, and save about 3-4 nice reddish solid ones. Also, don't allow them to grow extremely long…..cut tip off after about 8 or so ft. so the canes with branch out from the bottom up, you will want to encourage branching out with black Raspberries, then tie it down onto your wires. Remove excess canes every year as described above….more airy bush = more sun = more branching out = more fruit. So, that's the BLACK Raspberries, now, switching to red/yellow Raspberries and your comments about Floricanes (red and yellow Raspberries). All Canes will last for 2 yrs…in Spring cut those out that fruited the year before, and let the canes that grew the current year overwinter to the next year when they will fruit and then die off and must be removed so as not to spread diseases, and to keep each hill airy. New canes that grow out from the ground every Spring or after dormancy ard called Primocanes (stems are green and then turn brown, and then they go dormant during the winter season). After dormancy, the Primocanes then become Floricanes in the 2nd second season. There are some Raspberries plants that also bear fruit mid to late summer as Primocane fruit (the first year), those are considered everbearing varieties….go ahead and harvest the fruit and retain the cane, it will fruit again next summer and will then die, as described above. The Floricanes (2nd year canes mentioned earlier) will produce fruit in early to mid summer…then the canes will die and should be cut out. So, in summary…there are varieties that fruit on Floricanes only, and varieties that fruit on Primocanes (1st yr.) and again Floricanes 2nd yr.)…determined by the variety you have planted. The Black Raspberry is a completely different animal, as described.
T 30 GRK or other screws are designed to be self drilling.
Wild timing…I have a big ol patch of wild black raspberry on my property and just yesterday my wife and I were talking about cultivating them somewhat since they are already super productive, so this is great!
I'm 100% doing this when I have my own place. I got stabbed a lot at my grandfather's berry beds. Only thing I would change on this would be adding some sort of border around the bottom to match the rest of the semi- raised beds I want to make
Ohhhhh simple editing and animation has now turned into full animation. So foncee!
Umm… Isn't the 'power planter" an auger?
Great video Eric.. i am a big fan of Kevin Gardening (lol).
Great graphics/drawing in this video!
What is the name of the wire anchors?
I was just watching your summer harvest video from a few days ago and saw your strawberry bed. Have you tried any pineberry or pineapple berries? They are super productive and the berries are sweeter than my seascape strawberries. They produce so many berries and runners. I spend more time pruning my pineberries than any other plants.
Very smart planting 5-6’ tall & bushy plants right in front of that beautiful and expensive mural!
Are these thornless varieties?
You and your team are doing a good job. You're popping out these videos on a very consistent basis. Pop, lock, and drop it in the garden Epic Gardening Team!
Chicken name for the black & white one: PONGO
The mural is lovely
omg who is editing these now? the snap for resident garden demon…. i mean hermit was fantastic lol
mix the cement in a wheelbarrel before filling the hole with it.
Editing gets better and better every time
My blackberry is in a container. Thoughts?
OMG….. My Monday is too sick for some of the stuff ya'll do.
Nice vid 🙂 worth mentioning is that if you live in a place where the ground freezes, then the depth of your trellis post holes should be deeper than where the frost reaches.
This will prevent the freezing and thawing of the soil from cropping up the cement (and post imbedded in the cement).
This is also true for any kind of DIY building project that entails pouring a foundation 🙂
I have been told raspberries are highly invasive. What do u do to contain their roots?
I have a feeling you will regret putting blackberries in the ground. Total nightmare.
Why wouldn't you just use the anchors on both ends?
Suggestion: use needle nose pliers to create small loop on each of the 4 exiting wires to minimize poking or scratching risk to gardeners.