Of the 3 new blackberry plants I added in February, 2 lived and were growing very large and in an uncontrolled way. I’ve been stepping around them (and on them) enough to finally encourage me to build a trellis for them. They are planted near the entrance gate of my garden, so this was becoming a big problem for me.

This is probably the 4th iteration of different blackberry trellis solutions I’ve tried out in my garden. This one uses metal brackets to hold a stiff wire 6 inches away from the fence line.

Almost 10 years ago, I planted 16 different blackberry bushes, all in a big row. Adding a trellis wires like in this Texas AgriLife publication is the typical method of raising blackberries, and similar to what I did. But the long trellis wire became an obstacle and proved hard to use and I wound up removing them. The layout of where I had all this located wasn’t ideal for the trellis and it was constantly in the way of other things.