Tayberry question

[Curlykale]

I've been given a tayberry plant in a pot and am not sure where to plant it. At the moment it is just one stem tied to a cane. Am I right in thinking that it is a cross between a raspberry and a blackberry? Does it grow like a raspberry cane, in which case I could grow it in the fruit cage with my blackcurrant and redcurrant bushes, or does it grow like a blackberry and send out long thorny stems which would strangle the other plants?

[salome2001]

as I understand it, they are very vigorous, definitely more towards a blackberry type of behaviour

[WendyC]

Definitely grows like a blackberry. I have mine growing attached to wires strung between posts. It is thorny but then anything would be thorny after my blackberry which is thornless. It does throw up new shoots some distance from the main stems. I will soon be lifting these to give my sister.

[binley100]

Treat it like a blackberry ...keep the new growth to one side and cut out the old growth after fruiting ...

[Alison]

As already said, treat them like a blackberry. The canes are slightly less vigorous but easy to deal with up a fence / wall.

[Curlykale]

I'll definitely not put it in my fruit cage then! Thanks everyone.

[realfood]

There is also a thorn less sport of the Tayberry available.

[Alison]

Not come across the thornless tayberry but the thornless blackberry is a nowhere near as good as some of the other varieties you can get.

[realfood]

It is called the Buckingham Tayberry.

[Panda]

I love my Tayberry. It has such a lovely sweet flavour much closer to a strawberry in flavour than a blackberry or raspberry. We made the most beautiful seedless jam with it this year. My first attempt at jam. It's really vigorous and despite having to cut the old canes down it's getting bigger year on year. It's horribly thorny, even the leaves. My kids are scared of it, but I wouldn't be without it. It's in a boggy patch at the bottom of the garden down by the compost bins and seems to love it. We covered it a little from the birds but not diligently and we still got a good crop.

[Loudbarker1]

I love mine too, but the key is to make sure the fruit get really dark before picking. Rasberry red isn't ripe enough.