Ouachita Blackberry Plug Plants – Thornless Mid-Season Variety | Large, Sweet & Firm Berries | High Yield & Cold Hardy | Hand Picked Nursery

Ouachita Blackberry Plug Plants – Thornless Mid-Season Variety with Large, Sweet & Firm Berries

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Grow clean, productive, and flavorful berries with Ouachita Blackberry Plug Plants — a thornless mid-season variety celebrated for its large, glossy fruit, firm texture, and rich sweetness. This highly productive cultivar bridges the gap between early- and late-season blackberries, ensuring a steady supply of premium fruit through midsummer.

Ouachita blackberries are uniform, flavorful, and easy to pick thanks to their smooth, thornless canes. Their excellent firmness and storage life make them perfect for fresh eating, freezing, baking, or farmers market sales. The upright, vigorous canes require minimal maintenance and are resistant to common diseases, thriving in USDA Zones 6–9 with strong yields year after year.

Each 1-year-old bare root plug ships dormant and ready to establish quickly in your garden, ensuring years of abundant, sweet harvests.

Why Grow Ouachita Blackberry Plug Plants?

• Mid-Season Harvest: Produces large crops in July, extending your berry season.
• Thornless Canes: Smooth and easy to handle for pain-free picking.
• Large, Firm, & Sweet Berries: Excellent flavor and storage quality.
• High-Yield & Productive: Consistent crops with vigorous growth.
• Cold Hardy & Disease Resistant: Thrives in USDA Zones 6–9 with minimal issues.
• Plug Plants: 1-year-old dormant plugs for faster establishment and strong growth.

Planting & Care Instructions

• USDA Hardiness Zones: 6–9
• Sunlight: Full sun (6–8 hours per day)
• Soil: Well-drained, fertile soil with pH 6.0–6.5
• Spacing: 3–5 ft between plants; 6–8 ft between rows
• Watering: Maintain 1–1.5 inches of water weekly, especially during fruiting
• Mulching: Apply organic mulch to retain moisture and suppress weeds
• Trellising: Optional, but improves airflow and harvest ease

Pruning & Maintenance

• After Harvest: Remove spent floricanes to encourage new cane growth.
• During Season: Tip primocanes to promote lateral branching and higher yields.

Harvest Time

Mid-Season (Typically July) — Expect firm, sweet, and glossy blackberries perfect for fresh eating, baking, or preserving.

Ouachita Blackberry Plug Plants offer a perfect balance of flavor, firmness, and high yield — ideal for both home gardeners and small farms. Each Non-GMO plug from Hand Picked Nursery is quality-inspected to ensure strong establishment and healthy, long-lasting plants.

Satisfaction Guaranteed. Grow your own abundant midsummer harvest of sweet, thornless blackberries!