Welcome back to the Beginners Garden podcast. We are back today with Chad Cargill. You may remember him because he was on episode number 411, not that long ago, and we talked about getting started growing your own fruit. Now, that episode was packed with great information to help you get started growing fruit. But today, we are going to be

talking about his favorite fruit to grow, and that is blackberries. I learned so much myself

from this conversation, even though I've been growing blackberries for over a decade. So I know

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Now let's jump into my conversation with Chad. I've been growing blackberries

since I've started my garden journey and off and on over the years as I told him before I actually

mowed over our canes on accident one time. But I'm back growing blackberries and I love them too, but he is the expert on

growing blackberries. So he's going to talk to us about how you can get started growing

blackberries and do it successfully. So thank you for joining me again, Chad.

Glad to be back. Thank you. So why do you love blackberries so much? I love everything about

blackberries. I love when I was a kid being able to go pick blackberries and just, I don't know,

just not only the taste or just the experience of it, you know, you kind of think back as a kid,

even, I remember where it was the time.

I remember going to my grandparents.

I'd walk out in Oklahoma, where I'm from in Oklahoma City, like blackberries grow so wild

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