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With its delicious taste and tantalizing aroma, this is sure to become one of your favorite blackberry bushes to grow! The sweetest blackberry you can grow! Almost no thorns… no pricking your fingers Enjoy multiple harvests of berries each year Perfect when grown on your patio Large and Luscious Blackberries Ready to Harvest in July That’s what you’ll get from your new Baby Cakes plant – a taste sensation that’s wrapped in a large package and tied with a bow of sweetness. After eating only one berry, you’ll wish you’d ordered more than one plant! These berries are full-sized, even though they grow on dwarf plants. There are Practically No Thorns! Yes, you read it right – there are basically no thorns on this revolutionary blackberry plant. The presence of thorns is perhaps the primary reason that keeps people from picking blackberries, but Baby Cakes solves this problem in a big way. Oh sure, you can sometimes buy blackberries at your supermarket, but they do not compare in flavor or texture with fresh-picked berries. Why not simply stay scratch-free and harvest blackberries from your own thornless Baby Cakes Blackberry plant? Picking blackberries can be a hazardous undertaking as you carefully reach through the sharp thorns to pluck the berries. If you protect yourself by wearing long sleeves and gloves, you’ll quickly discover that it’s hard to pick blackberries while wearing bulky gloves. Your fun outing to gather blackberries ends up giving you more painful scratches on your hands and arms than sweet berries in your basket. Not One, But Two Harvests Each Year In most regions, Baby Cakes plants produce two harvests each year. Get ready for a midsummer treat when the first fruits ripen. And then wait for the encore – another crop that begins ripening in mid-autumn for a late-season finish! An Ultimate Container Plant You may not have considered growing a fruiting plant in a patio pot, but Baby Cakes will change your mind. Choose a large pot – 24 to 36 inches in diameter – to give your plant plenty of growing room. A Charming Fruiting Hedge Plant a row of Baby Cakes plants for an instant fruiting hedge! This hedge can define your property lines by forming a living fence. Won Best in Show at the 2016 Farwest New Varieties Showcase You don’t have to take our word for applauding this plant. When Baby Cakes Blackberry made its debut into the horticultural world, it earned the top judge’s award – Best in Show – at the 2016 Farwest New Varieties Showcase, an event produced by the Oregon Association of Nurseries. After competing against 55 plant competitors in five categories (trees, shrubs, perennials, annuals, and vines), Baby Cakes Blackberry was the hands-down winner. Selective Breeding with No Genetic Modification Baby Cakes Blackberry is a result of the University of Arkansas blackberry breeding program, which was founded in 1964 by Dr. James N. Moore. It’s important to note that the plants produced by this breeding program have not been genetically modified. They are all results of selective breeding by naturally crossing different types of blackberry plants. Baby Cakes Can Produce an Abundance of Fruit Alone and has A Low Chill Hour Requirement Excellent for Growing in Zones 4 Through 8 Then you’ll definitely want to order Baby Cakes! Some fruiting plants, such as many types of apples, can only set fruit in climates with long, cold winters and a high number of “chill hours. This designation represents the number of annual hours that register below 45 degrees F. Baby Cakes has a low chill-hour requirement – only 400. So even if you live in a warm climate within Baby Cakes’s perennial range across USDA Plant Hardiness Zones 4 through 8, you can grow this outstanding fruiting plant! Health and Nutritional Benefits of Blackberries Did you know that blackberries have one of the highest-tested antioxidant levels among fruits because of their dark color? These all-important antioxidants help fight cell damage in the human body, and they are measured as ORAC values (Oxygen Radical Absorption Capacity). Oregon State University notes that blackberries have a higher ORAC value than blueberries! Blackberries are also fiber-rich, packed with Vitamin C, and they contain natural compounds that have anti-cancer, anti-bacterial, and antiviral qualities! Let’s Start Planting Find a sunny site. Blackberry plants need lots of full sun to maximize their fruiting potential. Good drainage. Your Baby Cakes plants won’t like to sit in soggy soils, which can cause their root systems to rot. Plant where the soil drains well – in an area that doesn’t still hold standing water several hours after it rains. Consider planting in raised beds or large pots to provide excellent drainage. Water. You’ll water new plants
