Bushel and Berry® Baby Cakes® Blackberry Plant

Since this has not been answer since 2017, I'll leave this here for informational purposes: On a Dave Wilson YouTubevideo, titled "Selecting Blueberries, Blackberries and other Bush Fruits", someone asked if they could be grown together in the same pot and they said yes.

I purchased and planted this blackberry in a large container on my deck with a south eastern exposure in northern Idaho in the spring of 2017. Since the container is too large to move through the house into the garage, I left it on the deck. I wrapped the container with a silver faced rolled insulation blanket, placed a thick layer of pine needles on top of the soil and covered the plant with the white garden row covering fabric. To my pleasant surprise the blackberry survived just fine. Not only is it growing, but there are several new shoots coming up in the container.

They will arrive in a quart-size pot. Start off by transplanting this to a 2-5 gallon container, and then when the plant outgrows that, you can "pot up" to a 16-20" container.

This is a naturally dwarf bush-type plant that does not require staking.

Hi, We live in SE Idaho (zone 4b - 5a) and our bushes survived the winter fine. We have them in a raised bed in our veggie garden.

It depends on your location. I'm in the Inland Northwest not far from the Canadian border. My Baby Cakes Blackberry plants are in-ground and mulched liberally with bark. All but one survived a cold, snowy winter last year and set blooms in the spring. I would think a planter would need even more protection in a cold climate.

Yes, if you live in hardiness zones 4-8. If you live in a colder zone, you would be better off planting it in a container that you can move to an unheated garage or shed over the winter months.

No. they have small seeds in them.

This blackberry variety does not have the rambling root system and "sucker punch" annoyance of traditional blackberry varieties. It is meant to be compact. It does throw up suckers, but there will be fewer of them because of the variety's nature. Just trim them off below the soil surface.

Thank you for your question. In the quart pot they are 6 months old and will bear within 1-2 years.