Garden Plants

The sweet berries from Natchez blackberry canes are perfect for snacking or in jams, jellies and juice.  Natchez is a thornless variety that produce high yields of glossy, large, elongated berries in early summer.  They are semi-erect, growing to 4-5 feet tall.  They are self-pollinating plants and exhibit strong disease resistance—making them an excellent choice for home gardeners. 

The Natchez variety produces fruit on floricanes or second-year shoots. When the cane is flowering and bearing fruit, the plant is also producing new first-year shoots or primocanes. At the end of each year, prune out the floricanes, the branches that flowered and fruited earlier in the year. 

The Caroline Raspberry produces some of the largest berries of all the fall-bearing types.  It is very productive and grows almost anywhere, including Alabama, where berries ripen as early as June.