Brambles

[Cloud]

I have a wild bramble plant in my front garden.
Can I move/cultivate it?

[daylily]

Yes, however, 'moving' it can be near impossible, unless it's very young. Be prepared for the roots, if any left behind, sending up shoots for years to come.

Of course, you can always kill them with something, once the new planting has established.

[Hilary B]

I don't know about moving it, but if you prune it (for a start remove all fruit stems after the fruit is gone, then try to get in control of the rest) and give it some organic feeding (muck of whatever sort you can acquire) it will produce better fruit than the hedgerow specimens. I think our one is a seedling from someone's cultivated plant, but it thrives!

[Two_Sheds]

It should be covered in fruit by now ... my allotment bramble is heaving with big fat blackberries.

They are a bit of a nuisance unless you can keep them vigorously pruned, but they make a great natural barbed wire fence. Legal too, where barbed wire is not.

To make more plants, you need to peg down the tips until they root (much like strawberry runners)

[blito]

the brambles at my house are growing in a mixed hedgerow which was totally out of control when we moved in.
i vigorously pruned my mixed hedgerow last winter to try and keep things in check and as a result we are having the best blackberries i ever tasted, big sweet and juicy
and best of all the brambles have remained under control

[FB.]

I have a wild bramble plant in my front garden.
Can I move/cultivate it?

As has been said, they will root into any ground that they come into contact with, like strawberry runners. If I remember right, brambles fruit on last years growth, so new plants may take a couple of years to fruit.
There are also some thornless varieties available, which are more controllable.
I have an "Oregon Thornless". I have also heard of Merton Thornless.

FB

[lynda66]

i was thinking about this the other day, as i have some bramble in my hedge, was thinking of just planting some blackberries where i want them, i presume this will work too? i don't want to be digging under the hedge, it's a hawthorn, and far too prickly.

[Hilary B]

On a bramble, stems which have fruited will die back in winter, stems which didn't fruit this year will either fruit next year, or they can be 'layered', into pots if you like, and once rooted, cut the stem and plant where you want it. A bramble growing in the hedge may well be able to produce several latered plants in one season.
I haven't tasted thornless varieties often, but when I did, I wasn't convinced they were as tasty as the wilder types.

[Two_Sheds]

I've got a thornless blackberry. It's Orrible: big but sour and seedy. Even the blackbirds won't eat it

[scarey55]

I've got a thornless blackberry. It's Orrible: big but sour and seedy. Even the blackbirds won't eat it

Me too and I couldn't agree more Orrible ain't the word for them - I'm going to dig it up

[FB.]

I agree about the less inspiring taste of thornless blackberries.
They're OK, but not remarkable. But for growing in a garden, the lack of thorns makes them a lot more manageable.
If you want proper tasting blackberries, there are plenty of hedgerows containing the wild one's. I reckon that within an hour, I could gather a couple of bucket loads.

FB

[Cloud]

Thanks you lot.
I have a thornless type and it is horrid so its coming up.The bramble is my preferred option

[bluemoon]

I'd taste the fruit before you commit yourself. There are loads of different varieties of wild bramble, most are acceptable, some are gorgeous, but one or two have small, hard fruit with a not particularly pleasant taste.

[Cloud]

These taste ok!