Cheapest way to grow rasberries

[OllieMartin]

I've found a nice spot in my garden to add some rasberry canes. And as a rasberry jam enthusiast I've just got to get some.

However, I am on a shoe-string budget and it seems too expensive to buy established canes, but planting seeds looks like it will take too long.

Any suggestions on a quick, cost-effective way of doing this?

Thanks

[Jerryfb]

Raspberries are very invasive as anyone with existing canes will tell you. I'm digging up wayward canes all the time. Find some friendly raspberry growers near you and see if you can take their weeding off their hands

[Pumpkin Becki]

Raspberries are very invasive as anyone with existing canes will tell you. I'm digging up wayward canes all the time. Find some friendly raspberry growers near you and see if you can take their weeding off their hands

Ditto to that, that's how I got mine. My manager was thinning his row out and asked if I wanted some of his summer fruiting canes. I'd just bought some autumn fruiting ones from ebay (which I thought were a bargain at the time, but you can't beat freebies), so now I've got both and they are going great guns. Bear root canes of both type are normally available in the autumn, but if you're doing an instant replant then you should be okay doing it now, I'd just cut the top growth back to about 6" above ground level to reduce the stress on the plants.

[Nippy]

Raspberries are very invasive as anyone with existing canes will tell you. I'm digging up wayward canes all the time. Find some friendly raspberry growers near you and see if you can take their weeding off their hands

I was about to say the same, bloomimng things are everywhere!

[OllieMartin]

I don't know so many gardeners around here, but my Mum knows everyone in her village and she's a keen gardener so I'll put her on the case.

She'll do anything as I'm the favourite son!

Given their invasiveness, would you suggest planting them in a lined trough to restrict shoots, or is there nothing I can do about that?

[Jerryfb]

I don't know so many gardeners around here, but my Mum knows everyone in her village and she's a keen gardener so I'll put her on the case.

She'll do anything as I'm the favourite son!

Given their invasiveness, would you suggest planting them in a lined trough to restrict shoots, or is there nothing I can do about that?

If I had my time again I'd get a completely separate garden for them When they're happy they ge everywhere. If raspberries did not make such fantastic fruit they would be at the top of the most nasty weed list. Joking aside if you can cordon off the roots do so. Not sure how far down they go but I would line a two foot deep trench with weed barrier to be on the safe side. Hindsight is a wonderful thing

[Snadger]

I got mine (With permission from the allotment Secetary.....which just happened to be ME at the time!) from a vacant plot that had stood empty for a couple of years!
These days there never seems to be an empty plot though!

[mariell]

I have just planted raspberry canes in the garden and i am wondering how i will know what shoots i can take off for new canes next year
How do you know what are new plants
Also how and when do i prune them back?

[Two_Sheds]

Mariell: it is obvious when the new growth starts. Fresh new green shoots a little apart from the "mother plant"

[mariell]

okay thank you its my first time with fruit trees can you tell...lol

[ohbeary]

With raspberries if it's out of line and looks like a raspberry it's a new shoot, separate with a sharp spade and pot up till you find some mug to take it off your hands, best barrier for rasps, line trench with 2" thick armour plate from a "tank" (available from all good secondhand war material stockists)(snigger).......

[OllieMartin]

Does anyone have any rescued rasberry off-shoots that they could post me for suitable re-imbursement?

I'd also be eternally grateful

[Two_Sheds]

Does anyone have any rescued rasberry off-shoots that they could post me for suitable re-imbursement?

I'd also be eternally grateful

Wrong time of year.
You need to plant new canes from Oct to March

[Dottie]

Put a wanted at the appropriate time on freecycle.

I offered summer and autumn raspberries on freecycle and had about 6 people come and dig up whatever they needed and the rest were given to other folk on the allotment.

The plot next to me needs to thin his raspberries out this year, and I'm sure there are lots of folk in your part of the woods that will also need to do the same later in the year.

Gives you time to read about planting raspberries and preparing the ground.