Growing Brambles for Home Use

Raspberries and blackberries grow in Missouri, but raspberries are better suited to the northern part of the state and blackberries to the southern part.  Raspberries are damaged by the fluctuating high and low winter temperatures of the south and blackberries cannot tolerate the colder winter temperatures of the north.  Fallbearing raspberries that are mowed down in the dormant season can be grown in the south.

The brambles are arranged in 5 groups:  The erect, hedge forming blackberries; the semi-erect blackberries that require a trellis; the summerbearing red (purple) hedge forming raspberries that bear fruit in June; the black raspberries; and the fallbearing or everbearing red (yellow) raspberries.