Have just moved into a house with beautiful and delicious thornless blackberries growing over an old pergola. House has been in the family for decades (I recall climbing the pergola as a child to pick the berries!) but blackberry (and the rest of the garden) not been pruned for a long while, and the...

Hi! First post here. We have recently moved into a house that has been in the family for about 50 years. The garden has been a little neglected over the past ten or so, and the soft fruit my great aunt used to grow is fighting off an army of nettles, brambles, and bindweed. We have raspberry canes, ...