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My rasperries which I inherited with my plot, (summer ones I think) are sticking out runners everywhere, I am tying them into the post and wire system I have put in, but not sure how I can stop the spread? should I try digging down a timber or other solid frame around the bed, does this work, if so how deep? Any ideas please

On here because Rain has currently stopped play in Somerset, piddling down!! Resorted to loitering in my shed at home!!

Compo

I have dug in old scaffold boards around my autumn bliss. This stops 90% of the escapees.

Jerry

Compo think yourself lucky they are on your plot
My neighbours are coming under my open fencing-driving me MAD
Sad to hear rain has stopped play
We have got some slates that i've considered digging into the ground along that side; but I wasn't sure if they would go deep enoough (also seems a shame to use them for that job

Why confine them?

Just dig up those that are in the "wrong" place in the autumn and replant them where you want.

You confine Autumn Bliss because the they wander for fun, and runners pop up yards away from the parent plant. I did give some potted-up runners away, but the other people on the plot quickly became wise to their wandering habit.

I think that variety in particular should be sold with a health warning.I became so frustrated with mine that I dug them up and put them ia a skip.

i think im doing it wrong again our raspberries are growing through grass. as the surrounding grass is mown or strimmed any wandering suckers get chopped off. it looks untidy with long grass among the canes in the row but they still fruit well. i also dont use any support for the canes they dont seem to need it, well none fall over anyway, perhaps its the long grass helping support them?

I have put post and wires in Richard but not tied them in yet, they seem to stand on their own and just flop in the breeze, will tie them in when i get a minute.

Like Richard I mow off the escapees but I put them in a 4' wide bed all on their own so they can fill it up to their hearts content.
I agree you would need something like a scaffold board to stop them,they go down and under a 6" board.

Hi Compo,
My Rasberries are contained by the use of Slates vertically inserted into the soil. The trouble is that you do not find out until you have planted them so I learned the first time the hard way and when I made the second bed it was then that the Slates came into their own. It's alright to be wise the second time around!