We have several thickets of blackberry bushes around the property and get enough blackberries for me to make wine and my wife to make pies and jelly. Picking them in this wild, inter-twined state is a bit of a chore as anyone who's picked blackberries knows. Plus a couple of thickets are way out back, quite a walk from the home.
I have a lot of room near the main garden so I plan to transplant some blackberry plants into nice rows with room to walk between them, making the bushes accessible from either side. Sort of like the vineyard. I'll leave most of the wild thickets as they are so that we can continue to get berries until the "tamed" blackberries start to bear fruit.
I've read that they like acid soil and several websites recommended pruning them to a short cane and transplanting at this time of year (late summer here in Maryland) so that they'll start growing new canes during the fall.
Has anyone had experience with transplanting blackberries or setting up a tame berry patch? Anything I should be sure to do or not to do?
Paul