Rampant raspberries!

[acrylicspud]

Hello again

I started a thread last December time when I planted some raspberries canes and the I was worried about cuting them back in Feb as well (so thanks again for all the help for those q's)

However they seem to be coming along very well now, infact in some places almost too well as two new canes have spread about 0.5 away from the original cane position and ended up in my potato area !!!

So what to do, is it possible to transplant some of these canes to an area that hasn't been so rampant? If so... any ideas how I would go about moving them!

All ideas are very welcome.
Many thanks in advance!

[alan refail]

Hi Spud

Glad to hear your raspberries are so successful and I was not wrong to tell you to cut them back in February. In the event, due to a number of factors, including idleness, I didn't get my Autumn ones cut back until nearly April. They too are going a treat now.
As for the spreading plants, Autumn rasberries are wildly colonial - though not usually till after their first year. My advice would be, if you want to move them, move them. Now is not the ideal time, but unless you want your potato bed full of them, dig them up, remembering they will be growing from a "runner" underground from the main plant. Transplant with plenty of water and see what you get. At worst you will get a clear potato bed (for a while anyway). Of course, if you can leave some to move in November, you will have a better chance of success.

Alan

[acrylicspud]

Hi Alan

Yes you weren't wrong to tell me to cut them back!! Thanks again for all the advice, I was surprised to find that they had spread so far !! I suppose it's the warm weather?

So if I try and carefully uncover the runner root all the way back to the main cane and then cut it, that sounds like my best chance of success. I don't want them getting in the way of my pink fir apple spuds!

Thanks

[alan refail]

Yes - give it a try and save your Fir Apple.

Alan

[Geoff]

Just decide how wide you want your row to be and use a line to cut down a spade depth then move anything beyond it back into the row.

[Johnboy]

Hi Acrylicspud,
I would suggest that you do exactly a Geoff suggests and if you have enough in your Raspberry bed already I would cull anything beyond the line you cut.
I have to do this about twice a year here. I find that the Autumn Bliss that I was going to cull when I invested in JJ but relented are the worst.
JB.

[GIULIA]

I'll bet they're autumn bliss aren't they? Or maybe every variety does this, the ones on our plot try to take over the world every year. We treat all the runners as weeds now but are a bit shamefaced about the vast numbers that have left our allotment site and gone marching across the park to the roadside. Dog walkers come with large bowls to pick them in September and the parks and gardens chaps chop them down in winter but they're up and running again in no time. Raspberries are very greedy and thirsty creatures, the more you can feed and water them the less they'll feel the need to go wandering in search of supplementary supplies, even so, keep other crops well clear of them and think about digging a little trench about your raspberry patch to inhibit the runners or they'll stunt the growth of their neighbours. I grew a full-width row of leeks last year, half the row was clear of the raspberries but the other half was beside them and the difference in the size of the two ends made the truth about thuggish raspberries very clear. They don't half taste good though!

[acrylicspud]

Yes they are autumn bliss !
Although I can't say the same about my All gold unfortunately they aren't doing well at all. infact the only one that seemed to have a new cane at all, in the last week all the leaves have died off and I'm worried that none of them will do anything !

[mandylew]

I ordered five allgold last year from t&m, none of them grew at all so i asked for replacements which I planted this year and so far only 3 out of the five are showing any growth at ALall, meanwhile on the row next door autumn bliss is romping away, so it cant be my soil.

mandy

[GIULIA]

We have a slightly different variety, I think they're Autumn Gold (?) or something like that. Anyway they've done very well, fruiting earlier than the red and then producing a second flush very late on. Ours have produced lots of runners which we've passed on to other plot-holders and they've romped away. They smell wonderful and a pavlova with a mixture on top looks quite impressive - so give them another go!

[acrylicspud]

Do you think it's too late to plant some additional canes this year (to replace the ones not growing)? Only 1 out of 5 canes of All Gold show any life at the moment

[mandylew]

are they from T&M?