Bedford Giant Blackberry Plants

Bedford Giant Blackberry Bushes

Closer in many respects to wild brambles, this big thorny space filler has larger, sweeter fruit and superior yields. Good for covering walls and fences! To 2 by 2 metres.

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

Features:

• Self-fertile.
• Thorny
• Sprawling, needs support, good for growing along walls / fences
• Flavour is close to wild fruit, but sweeter
• Crops from late July for a few weeks, weather dependant
• Tolerates poor soil well
• RHS Award of Garden Merit

Growing Bedford Giant Blackberry Plants:

Support will be necessary to keep your plants from becoming a mounded tangle. 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, not the neighbours. Unless you really like them. 

Spacing: 1.8 metres apart is more than enough: a bit of extra space helps light to reach the lower parts of the canes.

Read more on how to grow blackberries.

Did You Know? 

Bred by the University of Arkansas for the US Department of Agriculture's fruit breeding program in 2007.