Moving raspberries

[Digeroo]

If I move some raspberries now will they survive?  Watering will be a big issue because it is full of calcium, so I do not reckon to ever water raspberries.

We have an abandoned plot and the cleared quad are due in the shape of some porkers who will flatten everything.  There are some particularly tasty raspberries, but the canes will not be there come autumn because by then they will be well and truly eaten.

[Digeroo]

[cestrian]

My raspberries are taking over. They're even throwing runners underneath the concrete sides of my greenhouse and are sending new shoots up inside. I put some of the shoots I pulled up in to big pots with compost for my mum, and they are growing like mad, so I think they are quite robust. You should be fine.

[small]

This may have been just coincidence, but....I moved some thriving raspberry canes, they seemed to survive beautifully, in fact are still popping up every year, but the fruit was never the same again, it's as if the move made them revert to more like a small wild fruit, if that makes sense....but you've got to try if the alternative is turning them into bacon!

[Paulines7]

You would need to water them regularly if you move them. 

Last year, many of our raspberry fruits were tiny and then died as it was so dry.  We had an awful crop.  This year we have been watering them quite a lot and the raspberries are huge.  Our water is very alkaline as we are on chalk but they are thriving. 

[Digeroo]

I have one variety which up to now have produced quite small fruit.  This year we have been lucky we had a thunderstorm about two weeks ago with over an inch of rain in half an hour.   All the raspberries fattened up enormously, never seen such large fruit.

Looks like it may be ok to move some.   As you say nothing ventured nothing gained.  I like the suggestion of some in pots, then I can put them next to my water butt at home and they can revel in a lack of alkaline.

I am surprised they are thriving on chalk, my experience is they simply quietly died off producing less and less new shoots until there is nothing left.  The autumn ones seem to be rather less fussy.

[chriscross1966]

My ground is pretty alkaline (enough so I don't bother liming brassicas and I do bother sulphuring potato trenches) and raspberries seem to be an invasive weed to match blackberries round here... Tulameen and Autumn BLiss especially and the ones that are supposed to be yellow are putting on a lot of growth on the plot so fingers crossed for next year....