I still love Marionberries and since they produce in June, they help us harvest blackberries all summer, but if we ever have a smaller space, I won't be able to grow them anymore.Ĥ. And Marionberry's super-thorny, really long vines need a lot more attention - and I always end up scratched. They have a complex flavor that I've always thought no other berry could come close to - until Triple Crown came into our lives. These are our Marionberry plants, a berry that is pretty much an Oregon legend. These canes never get out-of-control like some other vining berry canes we know and love: In spring, these then grow lateral shoots, making a compact berry 'bush.' This makes them perfect for smaller backyards - you could even grown them next to a house. The canes are very sturdy and when you get long canes in early spring and again in mid-summer (that don't have fruit on them), like the canes in the photo above, you just cut them back to the height of the other canes (tip-pruning). There are no out-of-reach berries here!ģ. But if you've grown up picking any berries at all, you will realize the absolute joy it is to see the "perfect" berry hanging just out of reach…but then stick your hand in there anyway because - no thorns. Uh, obviously since "thornless" in is their name. In the photo above you can see the berries that have been picked, those that are ready to be picked now, redder berries to the right that will ripen in a week and even green berries that will ripen in a couple weeks.Ģ. After that, they keep producing smaller bowls full of fruit as the berries continue to ripen. Most of the growing guides say a 4-5 week harvest, which is a couple weeks longer than many berries, but our plants produce almost 2 months! Of that, 4 weeks is the "main" harvest with large bowls filled every 2-4 days. 5 Reasons To Grow Triple Crown Thornless Blackberriesġ. Plants generally perform best when staked. In late winter to early spring, remove any canes damaged by winter and thin the remaining canes to 4 or 5 strong, well-spaced canes plus trim the laterals thereof. Immediately after fruit harvest, remove all canes that fruited to the ground.when they get long (for established shrubs). Very sturdy canes considered semi-erect because they produce some longer, new non-fruiting canes mid-summer - just cut them to 4-5 ft.They like slightly acidic, well-drained soil in full sun to part shade.The recommended spacing is 5 ft apart (ours are only 3-4 ft. Grow in zones 5-9, though they have insufficient cold hardiness for many northern regions except in tunnels.It's also disease resistant and grows huge berries. Triple Crown blackberry is named for its three attributes flavor, productivity and vigor.Burpee online (this is where I ordered mine from a couple years ago).Where to Buy Triple Crown Thornless Blackberries (click to go to page listings) That's when I knew I needed to share this discovery with you! Some links in this article are affiliate links and if you click on them I will receive a small commission at no cost to you – thanks for your support! By year three, those 3 little bushes produced enough blackberries to fill all our fresh-eating desires (including desserts like refreshing berry parfaits and big crumb berry crisps) plus 10 quart bags of frozen berries. And some of them were super-sized berries. And it worked - when any small thorny shoot comes up it is easy to tell it's not supposed to be there.īut then, we started realizing that the berries on these thornless bushes were SO very good. I thought if I planted thornless berries, I'd always be able to tell if the rogue berry was showing again because it would have thorns. Really - I didn't know anything about the Triple Crown variety, but I wanted to replace some out-of-control super thorny blackberries that refused to die completely even after 3 years of being covered (sometimes with plywood!). row three years ago just because they were thornless. It has a LOT more going for it and has *gasp* dethroned our beloved Marionberry as the most amazing berry to grow. Triple Crown Blackberry has become our family's favorite blackberry - and not just because it's thornless (though we do love the ease of harvest). Make room in your yard for Triple Crown Thornless Blackberries (at least 1 but more is better!) and you will have access to some of the most amazing berries around.
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