We’re just setting out the canes this year. We’re going to have a chain link fence just the other side of the bramble. We’ll let it ‘free form’ on that side. I plan to give it/them about 5-6’ ‘this’ side of the chain link fence as theirs and mow the edges. Clean out the trees/privet hedge/big weeds once a year. We’re aiming for country concertina wire. On the cheap.
Yes, I saw the posts about the asparagus farm. Interesting. Not sure I’d be that into asparagus.
I thought her devices for easing the job were interesting. I doubt that anyone would be that “in” to asparagus, but it once was her late husband’s parents’ farm and her retirement dream. Doesn’t sound too “retiring” to me, but I thought her set up was edifying. Since she doesn’t seem to be raising anything else for cash, at least her work is confined to a small segment of the year.
What is “country concertina” wire?
I have 2 blackberry bushes and 2 raspberry bushes and I have to figure out what to do with them, quick — something easy. Hoosiermama says that I cannot plant them closer together than 800 feet (yards?). I have plenty of space, but I need them under some kind of control. My husband gets irate about thorny canes. He’s not allowed near my roses. He hacked out all the wild roses that were here when we bought this place.