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Merton Thornless Blackberry Plants

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The details

  • Self-fertile.
  • Thornless
  • Vigorous, needs support, good for growing along walls / fences
  • Big, sweet and tangy fruit, but sweeter
  • Crops from late July for a few weeks, weather dependant
  • Tolerates poor soil well
  • To 2x2m
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P9 (9cm Pot)
Potted
£7.95each
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9 +
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£ 6.95
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Bareroot
£7.96each
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1-2
3 - 9
10 +
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£7.96
£ 7.79
£ 7.49
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3 Litre
Potted
£11.99each
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3 - 9
10 +
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£11.99
£ 10.99
£ 9.99

Description

Merton Thornless Mid-Season Blackberry Bushes

A must-have mid-season pick if you have space for it, Merton Thornless is also flawless, and the long spine free canes are painless to work with. The fruit retain a lot of the wild bamble kick, but are so much bigger and a fair bit sweeter. 

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Features:

  • Large, intensely flavoured fruit. Heavy cropper.
  • Self-fertile.
  • Thornless
  • Big sprawling plant, needs support, good for growing along walls / fences
  • Crops from late August for a few weeks, weather dependant
  • Tolerates poor or damp soil well
  • To 2 x 2 metres

Growing Merton Thornless Blackberries:

Support will be necessary to keep your plants from becoming a mounded tangle on the ground. Due to its hefty size, a common strategy is "up and over but to me" a wall or fence, with the stems that are too tall for the fence turning back into your garden.

Spacing: 1.8 to 3 metres apart, depending on how you intend to train them on the support: some people go mostly up and down the other side of a support, keep it all quite narrow, and some people train the canes horizontally, which usually gives them more air and light.

Read more on how to grow blackberries.

What to expect

Bareroot plants

Bareroot?

Bareroot plants have no soil around the roots. They are light, easy to carry and plant.

Perfect for Winter

The ground tends to be wet in winter, ideal for planting bareroot plants.

Value for money

You pay less for the same size bareroot plants, compared to potted.

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