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I got myself five raspberry bushes from lidl yesterday, my problems are that I (1) have nowhere to plant them at the moment, and (2) I do not have the time this week to sort the area where they are going to be planted.

My question is, can I plant them into plant pots and plant them whenever I get the chance?

If not what is the best thing to do with them?

Gary.

Heel them in.

I heeled some spare plants in for a fellow allotmenteer (opened the soil with a spade, next to the hedge in the shade, full of nettles, nasty place, and crammed them into the gap) and she kept not collecting them. They fruited the next year, then I dug them up, put them in a sack, and delivered them over her rabbit fence. They fruited reasonably well for her this year, after all that, and will be splendid next year (judging by the ones I left behind by mistake and today heeled in at my daughter's Greenwich allotment, nasty grassy nettly place).

Trust me, they are indestructible. As long as they don't dry out (fat chance today).

What does heel them in mean ?

Hi

Heel them in means to temporarily plant them.

Hi
Last year whilst i was waiting to get my plot i bought 28 canes and kept them in buckets over the winter ( i didnt prune them down becuase i thought that they would be under enough stress). In march they were already breaking bud when i finally moved to the plot and i pruned three quaters of them down and left a few just to compare. All of them survived thier pot winter and all of them fruited this year (even the summer ones).
So pots no problem and dont worry about late pruning espeically if they are autumn rasps.
good luck
Sunloving

Thanks for that. Looks like Morrison's buckets until after Christmas.

Gary