The other day someone asked me about tay berries. They are a cross between a blackberry and a raspberry. We only have one bush grown on wires at the end of our raspberries. I am trying to train the branches diagonally. to encourage extra shoots. This is its second summer.
You have to wait for the berries to go a deep red otherwise they are a bit tart. So far the birds have not shown any interest, preferring to nibble the raspberries further along.
On the other side of the tay berry are two cultivated blackberries - they are full of flowers and young fruit and have made much better progress.
I have a Tayberry, it was given to me by a friend as a new home pressie, this is its first proper year at fruiting, there are plenty of berries coming along :-)
ReplyDeleteThank you for the explanation. I don't think we have Tay Berries here in Canada. They intrigue me though so I am off to do some research.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
Not common here either. We looked at a Canadian fruit the other day, bit like a blueberry>, but it took too many years to fruit.
DeleteYour fruit bushes look really healthy.
ReplyDeleteSoft fruit is doing well this year, I must post about the very poor apple and pears! Disaster.
DeleteTayberry is something I'm considering in the future. I've made a real mess of my raspberries by not lifting the suckers when I should have.I'm learning, wont happen again.
ReplyDeleteI pulled out loads of suckers from our raspberries having seen a brief thing on Gardeners World. It felt all wrong but the 4 main branches I left for each plant have really come on well.
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