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Got some seaberry plants on impulse

 
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The local permaculture nursery is usually open by appointment only, but they had walk in hours today.
I got a jostaberry, a walking onion and two seaberries, one male ,one an unsexed seedling.
I pulled the dead pawpaw seedling out of it's nursery barrel and dug the two seaberry plants in.
The nursery is a series of barrels along the driveway, that I pass everyday.
It has plants that I'm trying to propagate plus whatever I plug in there.

After planting, I started rethinking my decision.
I've had other thorny plants in the nursery and their aggressive snagging of skin,hair and clothing was bad for domestic bliss.
I have a  bed at the front of my house that has thorny plants in it ,but they are well behaved, and I'm thinking seaberries are not well behaved at all.

So they will have to go...over to the yarden,  where they can run wild.
I would plant them next to some raised beds along the northern fence line, but the beds are all at least 2 feet tall.
Neither plant is that tall, and evidently, shade is the one thing that kills seaberry plants.
Could they coexist in growing directly in the raised  beds alongside annual crops?

If I give them a bed to themselves,  is there any soil medium they can't  deal with?
I build most raised bed soils from sticks and leaves.
It's basically a lasagna bed, composting in place.
How do think think they would like such an arrangement ?
 
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I think they will grow in pretty much anything.  They spread, so if you put them in a raised bed, they will take it over.  You could probably grow annuals with them for the first year, maybe two, but after that the fact that they spread and the fact that they have pretty sharp thorns will make it next to impossible once they grow up a little.  All that said, I love seaberry plants.  They are one of my favorites and the berries are delicious.  Chickens love them as well.
 
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Thanks for the input!
I have one bed that I really don't know what to do with so maybe I'll put it there and just hope they get enough sunlight.
That bed is in the northwest corner of a fenced in yard so it loses out on late day sunshine but it does get the earliest morning sunshine all the way up to noon.
 
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