Kitchen Garden Forum

I`ve done everything in the book to grow good raspberries in our allotment. I grow them successfully at home and the chap in the next door allotment does well but mine at the plot are rubbish.
However, under the apple tree about 30 yards away I have the most prolific mass of raspberry canes.
They must have seeded when birds stealing berries perched in the branches They`re not all the same variety. I`ve just picked a big bowlful of juicy berries that I`ve neither planted nor looked after.Not complaining.

It sounds to me as if [a] the seeds from which the canes grew were strong and very viable and [b] the raspberries like the shade and shelter provided by the tree. It's often that what nature does outperforms what we do. [Speaking for myself, of course!]

mike