My allotment secretary was giving away what looked like bare rooted raspberry bushes today stating they would grow so they could be used as bean poles, though she said it would take approx 6 years before they will be established and producing beanpoles. The allotment have had a grant to buy trees and these grow your own bean poles and they have been planted in an unoccupied plot on the site. My only problem is the secretary knows nothing about them and they are not named. I have heeled them in for now but need to find some info on them ie planting distances and what i need to do with the ie coppice them?
Can anyone shed any light on this for