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This video shows how to grow loganberries successfully and enjoy delicious homegrown fruit. I explain how to plant loganberries, the best conditions for healthy growth, and how to train the canes so they produce plenty of berries.
I also share tips on pruning, watering, and supporting plants to keep them productive year after year. A practical guide for gardeners who want an easy fruit crop that produces great harvests.
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Do you grow Loganberries? Welcome to
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Gardening with Ben, and today we're
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going to talk about Loganberry plants.
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Now, we've got some Loganberries growing
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up behind us down here at the plot. Now,
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Loganberries are a fantastic fruit to
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grow. If you've never heard of them or
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taste them, here are some facts about
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Loganberries because they're so easy to
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grow. They're a hybrid plant, which
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means they're a cross between plants.
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And they're a cross actually between
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raspberries and blackberries. So they're
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a bit of both in one fruit. And they
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were accidentally created in the 1800s.
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Um a chap called James Harvey Logan was
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actually trying to create some new
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berries and they actually formed
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naturally. So that is how the Logan
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berries were formed and they are a
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longer than a raspberries. They're quite
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about that long once you get growing the
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fruit. They're absolutely delicious.
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They're a bit hairy, but they're nice
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and delicious and they're usually a dark
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red purple color and they crop so much.
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They get so much crops on them. Now,
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they're definitely worth the wait in
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gold. If you haven't tried growing one,
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definitely give them a go. Now, mine is
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a fless variety, which is absolutely
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perfect. so you don't get spiked to
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death when you are harvesting them
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because I don't want spiky plants down
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here. I've even got a formless
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blackberry because I don't want the
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thorns on my a lotment because you only
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end up spending all the time pulling all
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the thorns out. Now Logan berries are
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perfect for jams, crumbles, juices,
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anything like what you'd use your
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raspberries and blackberries in.
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Absolutely perfect and little large
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crops as well. and also they're easy to
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take cutings from them. Now, let me show
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you the plant and let me show you about
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the logo plant.
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Now, the plant grows like a blackberry.
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It's got the long whips on it, which you
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can train up arches or along fences. And
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as you can see, mine's starting to come
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out in bud now that it's in March time.
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So, it'll get growing again. And it
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grows new for uh whips every year. and
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they will be the ones that fing.
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Obviously, the old ones are the ones
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which you cut back for
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the crop. So, as you can see, we've got
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absolutely loads growing on this one.
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It's absolutely amazing. Like, there's
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only like three shoots coming from the
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base, but we've got absolutely loads on
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them. And there'll be crops all over the
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Logan Bay. Now the best way to take
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cutings is finding the end of the whip
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and basically you put that in soil while
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it's still attached to the mother plant
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and it will start getting roots on the
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end of it. So then once it's got roots
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on it then you can snip it off and
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there's your extra plant. It's as easy
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as that to take cutings from
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loanberries. So if you know somebody
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that's got one ask them to take some
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cutings for you and get the plant
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started. save you going out and buying
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some. But yeah, Loganberries are
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absolutely fantastic. And come
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summertime, we will show you the crops,
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what we get from it. And if you saw my
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videos last year, you'll see that we did
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get some great crops from it. And it had
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only been in a couple of years. So this
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year, it will hopefully get an
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absolutely amazing crop because it's
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going all the way up here, absolutely
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far along. So it's getting a good size
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on it.
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So yeah, that is the Logan Bay plant. So
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let me know in the comments if you've
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got a Logan Bay pl at your a lotment or
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in the garden and if it's encouraged you
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to go out and get one. So until next
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time everyone remember keep smiling,
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keep shining and keep gardening with Ben
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everyone.
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