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Its not that hard to confuse me i know but something has got me stumped! I popped into Cadbury garden centre to price up a raspberry bush £15.99 for a large what i would call a pruned bush. I've came home to check on prices online and all i can find are canes? Just looks like a twig to me!!

Really dont know what i should be planting! I dont want a lot thought a nice big Half barrel pot with one of the ones i saw in cadbury garden centre would be good!! I heard that they like a lot of root space?
again not very good at this technical lingo!!

Sorry if its a silly question just really has me scratching my head!

Thanks lucy.

Canes are fine, and MUCH cheaper! Yes, they look like twigs at this time of year, but you'll be amazed at how they grow- you should get fruit next year. Now is a good time to plant them.

I bought nine canes for that little more than that price this time last year! I lost two and had fruit off the rest of them this year.
This website may be of use
http://www.gardenaction.co.uk/fruit_veg_diary/fruit_veg_mini_project_january_2_raspberry.aspwebsite

Sorry the link doesn't work! Maybe this does
http://www.gardenaction.co.uk/fruit_veg_diary/fruit_veg_mini_project_january_2a_raspberry.asp

I planted 8 raspberry canes at 12-18" tall in February.  Cost me £5.  They are all now around 5ft tall with loads of fruit.

Canes are fine but I have found growing autumn-fruiting raspberries  (primocane) much easier to grow as you just prune them right down after fruiting ready for the next year.  With spring and summer fruiting ones (floricane) they fruit the following year so you have to leave the new shoots on and prune the old wood back.  If you are as easily confused as me I'd stick to autumn ones, some of mine started fruiting in July anyway.  I didn't know any of this and bought spring, summer and autumn fruiting ones but I wish I had stuck to just primocanes.

I'll second that! My autmn rasps started fruiting in August, barely need any support and I have never even put any protection over them and still had a bumper crop this year.

I grow both and I have to say that in the second year the summer ones have the edge over the autumn ones for flavour and size and possibly quality. I don't have a problem with losing much to the birds, blackcurrants are a different story you've got to cover them on my site.

never heard of a raspberry bush, apart from the flowering type, all ours are from canes

Thanks,

Didnt want to look like a plonker asking in the garden centre at least you cant see me going red lol  :-[

lucy

Well to be fair it's not obvious if you've never grown raspberries before and I noticed my local garden centre 'tries it on' by selling raspberry bushes singularly in the summer at the price they sell 10 canes for in the autumn.

Went into my local Wyvales this morning and at first glance the canes certainly did look like a bush ;) Closer inspection found them to be several varieties of berries all planted in the same pot - might you have seen something similar, I wonder, Lucy?

I've got both types of cane, planted a year ago.  Both have flourished within a year and the autumn ones have fruited very much better (from August) and not been eaten at all by birds, but it is true that their taste and texture is not as good as the summer ones.