Grow Your Own Food: Blackberries

"Survival Doc" picks blackberries and discusses the nutritional, medicinal, financial and survival benefits of blackberries and how to grow your own healthy antioxidant-rich survival food in your back yard or home garden.

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• grow your own food
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• antioxidants
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• herbal
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• blackberries as medicine
• dysentery
• diarrhea remedy
• diarrhea cure
• disaster preparedness
• pruning blackberries
• blackberry bushes
• thornless blackberries
• selling produce from home
• home canning

[blackboy424]

Hey Survival Doc, I purchased some blackberry from walmart this past year they are growing ok in containers but I am not sure what type they are. They are the vine type with long ones. the vines are not actually canes though...they are very tender and bend easy....will they eventually become more firm like the ones I have been seeing in your video?

[thenewsurvivalist]

@blackboy424 yes

[MOM1NATOR]

HI Doc! I would like to know how careful you have to be if you dig up a blackberry bush for replanting and what part of season you should do it in. Second, I'd like to know how much root room they need. I was considering planting a bucket garden. Using the large spackle size buckets or lined crab bushel baskets.

[thenewsurvivalist]

@MOM1NATOR The key is to keep the new transplants watered. Some of them make it and some of them do not. I transplant them in the Spring or Fall but I don't know when the best time is. I don't know about growing them in buckets. I don't know why not.

[soiledmcribs]

we have 3 large blackberry bushes we have found on our new property (we have leaped into small scale homesteading). I was wondering how we would help these plants multiple into more bushes?? can we use a rooting hormone and plant a cutting to create a new bush??? Any advice on this would be appreciated.....your substantially large blackberry patch is impressive

[thenewsurvivalist]

@soiledmcribs Blackberries will spread on their own. Sometimes I dig up new shoots and transplant them in a different location. The canes will also root themselves if on the ground so you can probably root them.

[chicksfollowme]

Nice vid. I wishi could put a cooler out like that but I would go out and find two empty bins :( no fruit and no berries.

[BackyardDiscoveryCo]

Great info... blackberries are indeed high in antioxidants.

[arkansastrash320]

The blackberry maybe indeed be a great berry but i must disagree with you its not the highest in antioxidants.The blueberry rubel that has not been bred with any other varites and is still a wild variety in nature is the most powerfull antioxidant of all fruits.You can check the inernet Its true.Nice information about blackberries.The darker the fruit the better it is for you !!

[maormal]

something good gonna happen

[amazingdany]

Man, I love blackberries... It would be nice to grow them in my backyard.

[phuonghan1]

Your video is very interesting .My blackberry plant is producing fruit for the first time so I cannot wait. Thank you.

[meetman57]

How do you keep the deer and birds away from them?

[blackboy424]

@thenewsurvivalist :) awesome thx....what spacing did you use for your berries?? I am going to put them in the ground once I figure out how much room I need to set aside......