Did you know there’s a wild blackberry species in the Whiteshell? More details here: http://www.naturenorth.com/summer/fruits/Ffruits2.html
Privately, I can send coordinates to a large mature patch if you also want a hike and a small cutting.
This is so cool. What did you do to establish the cutting?
I went with a spade and a kitchen garbage bag in fall. I found a sucker from a large bush, dug out a single spadeful, cutting the root. At home I dug a hole several times larger, dropped my shovelful of dirt and sucker, and backfilled with outdoor potting soil. So basically identical to transplanting raspberries or saskatoons.
In winter, my wild rabbits ate the cutting right down so it was almost flush to the ground. Didn’t seem to bother it. At long as there’s some root mass it’ll pop up. Hardy plants, these.
In winter, my wild rabbits ate the cutting right down so it was almost flush to the ground. Didn’t seem to bother it. At long as there’s some root mass it’ll pop up. Hardy plants, these.
That’s the beauty of growing local/regional native plants - they’ve evolved to survive the climate and conditions here.
Nice
