Triple Crown Blackberry Bush - USDA Organic

1. Planting: Full sun (6 to 8 hours of sunlight daily) and well-drained soil are all the Triple Crown needs to thrive, outdoors or indoors.

If you’re planting outside, dig a hole large enough to accommodate the Triple Crown’s root ball, place your plant in the hole, backfill with soil and tamp down to avoid air pockets. Finally, mulch the surrounding area and water to settle the roots.

If you’re keeping your plant indoors, select a pot that’s about twice the width of your plant’s shipped container, use organic soil mix and place the plant in the pot. Also, ensure that your pot has drainage holes. After your Triple Crown is planted, place it in front of a sunny window.

2. Watering: Triple Crown Blackberries are heat and humidity tolerant but need an inch of water once a week. Generally, this means soaking the surrounding soil with your hose about once per week for 30 seconds.

If you’re not sure when to water, check the top 2 inches of soil for dryness for both in-ground and container-planted Blackberries. If the soil is dry here, it’s time to water. Container-planted Triple Crowns should be watered until the water flows from the pot’s drainage holes.

3. Fertilizing: Once you see leaves on your plant, you can add acidic organic fertilizer. When your Triple Crown is fully mature, use your organic fertilizer once a year in June and again in the fall if your harvest was smaller than expected.

4. Pruning: After you’ve harvested your blackberries, prune the canes that produced fruit. This will encourage new branching and fruiting the next season.