Topic: is it too late to plant rasberries?

[Derek]

Over the last couple of months I have removed a bed of rasperry canes, cleared them of couch grass root and replanted in a clear area.
They are only just showing signs of ressurection...I too thought I had lost them. a bit of sun works wonders

Derek

[MarthaMad]

I planted the rootball about 3 inches below the soil. ....  Was that too deep?   

Should I lift them and replant

[philcooper]

It's not the rootball that's important, its the depth that they were previously, which you can see by the mark on the stem as you plant (yours could well have been replaced by the current current level.

The advice is to plant "slightly deeper" than previously, so how deep was the "rootball" then.

In my experience the "ball" is just a straggly collection

Phil

[Moggle]

Well the new raspbs finally arrived yesterday, so raced down to the plot to plant them today. Didn't even have a space dug, so dug madly to make space.

They are all in now, forgot that bit of advice about planting them slightly deeper, oh well!

Chucked some compost and blood fish and bone in the hole before planting, so hopefully all will be well.

Feel totally knackered now!

[kitty]

we can worry together moggle!i am just awaiting my last few raspberry plants and i shall hurtle into the garden with them!-what i would like to know from the experianced raspberry growers is.....will i get raspberries this year?
kitty ;D

[Svea]

from autumn fruiting, yes.
from summer ones, only a few, i think.

though, i am happy to be told otherwise :)

[kitty]

aha!thanks for that svea! ;D

[Debs]

I planted my raspberry canes today ( summer fruiting), but didn't prune them - should I have done ???

Debs

[Aussie Chick]

Debs,
I think you should have pruned them to 15/20cm. That's the advice I was given on the packet!!
lets hope we get fruit this summer!
Aussie Chick.

[Moggle]

lets hope we get fruit this summer!
Aussie Chick.

we can worry together moggle!i am just awaiting my last few raspberry plants and i shall hurtle into the garden with them!-what i would like to know from the experianced raspberry growers is.....will i get raspberries this year?
kitty ;D

I hope I get a few berries! I expect I will be visiting the pick your own, the few raspbs I get will probably not satisfy my raspberry obsession  ;D ;D :P Also need to make loads of my own jam this year as the bought stuff tastes rubbish in comparison to home made  :-\

[Aussie Chick]

If we get any more frost do I need to cover my raspberries with Fleece?
AC

[Clayhithe]

Debs,

Prune the autumn flowering in early spring.   New canes will grow up to produce this autumns fruit
Prune the fruiting canes of summer flowering after harvesting the fruit:  leave the new canes for next year

[Debs]

Thanks Clayhithe / Aussie chick,

Don't know if its now too late to prune - so will let my rasps do their

own thing and see what happens...

Debs