Anybody plant blackberries for deer?

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Mossy Oak

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I'm trying to come up with some new things to plant on one of my farms. Has anyone had any luck with planting blackberries for deer? I was wondering if the deer would still eat them with all of the thorns in them. Any help is appreciated.
 
Deer will tear up blackberries and Rattlesnakes like them too! When planting blackberries I would gage up the main trunk so they cannot damage the heart of the bush and kill it.
 
Excellent! I saw some blackberry bushes for sale at WalMart today and thought about getting a few next time I am in there.
 
I have arapho, navajo, and apache thornless varieties. Make some awesome blackberries. Lots of wildlife love them. If you have high deer density then yea you will want to cage them around the main part. I dont cage but then I dont have alot of deer either.
 
In my area, if you open the leaf canopy, you will have blackberries--more than you could ever want! They are probably the most comon early successional plant around.
 
BSK said:
In my area, if you open the leaf canopy, you will have blackberries--more than you could ever want! They are probably the most comon early successional plant around.
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That must be why rmbbq has so many,they are everywhere on his place
 
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Football Hunter said:
BSK said:
In my area, if you open the leaf canopy, you will have blackberries--more than you could ever want! They are probably the most comon early successional plant around.
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That must be why rmbbq has so many,they are everywhere on his place
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Yep, I definately have black berries. That is ok by me. I love cobblers and syrup/jams made with them.
 
Check out most of the power-line right-of-ways in the area. They are choked with blackberries.
 
richmanbarbeque said:
BSK said:
Check out most of the power-line right-of-ways in the area. They are choked with blackberries.
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Long term will they get to the point of being counter productive?
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Blackberries are an early succession plant. As an area continues to advance through the stages of successional regrowth the blackberries will be shaded out by hardwood sapling regrowh and eventually the area will return to mature forest.

As for power-line right-of-ways, they are mowed every 3 to 4 years, which restarts the regrowth process.
 
BSK, I guess that is where I was going with it. If I spray areas in rotation having an abundance of black berries grow up is a good thing, correct?
 
richmanbarbeque said:
BSK, I guess that is where I was going with it. If I spray areas in rotation having an abundance of black berries grow up is a good thing, correct?
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Blackberries are a fairly good food source. Not "top of the line," but good.
 
Just FYI blackberries are easily propagated from cuttings and alittle rooting hormone, if you want to speed up the process and place them exactly where you want them. And also that way you just buy a few thornless plants with the larger fruits and propagate hundreds from that one plant over several years with your only cost being rooting hormone and some old mason jars.
 
smstone22 said:
Just FYI blackberries are easily propagated from cuttings and alittle rooting hormone, if you want to speed up the process and place them exactly where you want them. And also that way you just buy a few thornless plants with the larger fruits and propagate hundreds from that one plant over several years with your only cost being rooting hormone and some old mason jars.
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Any time of year better to root em?
 
For root cuttings, Jan-February is when you want to dig and cut. Store in moist paper towels in a bag in the fridge. Plant 4 - 6 inch long pieces in Mar-April, 2 inches or so deep and voila. This works very well for wild blackberries and tame but doesnt work for trailing type cultivars.

For leafy stem cuttings, cut a couple inches of a leafy tip in mid-Summer, add rooting hormone, place in moist ground, put a mason jar over it, and it will root if we have enough rain or if you can water it. The mason jar helps keep some moisture in though and acts as a minigreenhouse so you will have decent sucess with this method during most summers.

Just a few of the many things that my great grandmother has taught me, she is a walking book of knowledge on propagating nearly everything that produces food. Granny doesnt use rooting hormone though, thats something I added because I have better luck with it.
 

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