The only warm blooded animals that might climb my fence have hooves, horns, and little white tails! Of course, they seem to be immune to thorns.
Back to where I’m going to plant these blackberries and raspberries — I have a pasture fence (wire 2 x 4 grid) in place. If I plant the crowns between fence posts (so they are not in the way and interfere when he has to change a post — are these going to reproduce at the crown level and eventually get down to that post where the roots and canes will tangle around it? Or, do they reproduce by dropped berries?
I looked berry horticulture up on the web and didn’t get too many good ideas. The raspberries were shown planted between two T posts with wire strung from the ends of the crossbar on the T to the opposite T. The berries were planted in between, and the canes trained up between the wires. Looked like a good idea to keep a little control. There was no similar drawing for blackberries.
Have you seen tubebender’s blueberry cage? He posted pictures last week that are something to behold. A long narrow space with a gate at one end and aviary wire on the sides and the top! Nothing is going to get those berries until he says so!
The Black Cap Raspberries are trailing canes like blackberries and need a trellis while my red raspberries grow upright and are self supporting. We battle a wild blackberry here called the Himalaya berry and you could substitute it for prison walls. When I get to Hell I am going to look up the guy that imported them and scalp and neuter him. One rumor has Luther Burbank as the culprit...