Blackberry planting methods and techniques: land selection and preparation, timely planting, fertilizer management, field management, attention to the main points.

1, selection of land preparation

Blackberries on the planting environment and planting soil requirements are very high, it is generally recommended to choose convenient drainage and irrigation, soil layer of soft fertility of the soil, soil pH value is best to control in the range of 6.5 or so. The place where blackberries are planted should be well lighted. When preparing the ground, you should make a good deep turning, apply enough bottom fertilizer, and if the total organic matter of the soil is insufficient, you should improve the amount of bottom fertilizer in time.

2, timely planting

Blackberry planting time is usually in the early spring of each year, this time to reasonably control the planting density after digging a good planting hole. Planting density according to soil fertility and other factors, such as medium fertility will be controlled at 1.5x2 meters spacing, to ensure that the blackberry plants have enough room to grow.

3, fertilizer management

Every year in the winter time to the soil for a thorough tilling work, and then according to the number of planting each plant into the appropriate amount of fertilizer. In the growth period of blackberry to fast-acting nitrogen fertilizer, mainly in the pre-flowering and fruit development period of two periods. Fertilizer pay attention to the proportion of nutrients, reasonable adjustment of the proportion of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium and other nutrients.

4, field management

Blackberries are a semi-erect variety, so when planting or to build a good support, do a good job of leading the vine on the work. In the orchard about 5 meters to erect a column, column height of about two meters, to promote the growth of blackberries. Then to do a good job of shaping and pruning, when the sprouting branch grows to about 1.2 meters when it should be timely centering, control the growth height, promote the growth of plant side branches.

5, pay attention to points

Blackberry fruit is relatively fragile, after picking down must be sterilized within four hours of freezing work, otherwise the nutrition will be a large number of losses leading to deterioration. Therefore, the market price of blackberries is very expensive, but it is not easy to grow.