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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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£7.95each
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Despatched from late October
3 Litre
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£11.99each
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£ 11.99
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£ 9.99

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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. 

Browse our blackberry bushes or our full range of soft fruit plants.

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.