Plantings are new each year Early October - Build beds. After harvest we cut all the canes that fruited to leave ample room for the new canes. Make sure these are plump and bursting with juice when you pick them. Blackberries will not ripen after picking.
Berries produced on thorny bushes are tarter and hold their flavor better in cooking.
Berries produced on thornless bushes are normally sweeter. Find the biggest, plumpest, berries on the bottom of the bush, out of sight, under the bush. Mid August Figs are one of the most nutritious fruits that you can eat. Figs are unusual in that they bear their flowers on the inside of the fruit. We would like to email you as crops become ripe.