Another raspberry question

[Hans Mum]

I've cut down my autumn raspberries and put a good mulch of well rotted manure on them.....feeling quite proud when someone walks past and said raspberries don't like being mulched have I made a booboo or were they talking rubbish.......

[Bigmallly]

I hope they are talking rubbish as I have recently done exactly the same....................Did they say why they don't like manure or is it just mulch in general?

[WendyC]

I always understood they were shallow rooting and like a cool root run, which mulching would provide. Have been mulching raspberries every Autumn for over ten years and get good crops.

[Scarlet]

I mulch mine too..

[Alison]

Mulch mine every year too.

[WendyC]

I'd love to know what the reasoning was behind the comment.

[Kristen]

I've cut down my autumn raspberries and put a good mulch of well rotted manure on them.....feeling quite proud when someone walks past and said raspberries don't like being mulched have I made a booboo or were they talking rubbish.......

They were taking rubbish ...

[Kristen]

P.S. In addition to the normal couple-of-inches of well rotted manure, which I apply annually, this year I am going to apply a deep layer of straw so that it becomes a no-weeding-bed

[veggiechicken]

I think they're talking rubbish too.
...............but, could it be because raspberries are shallow rooted and a decent mulch would make them deeper rooted?

[Bigmallly]

Well Iv'e made them even deeper with a spreading of wood ash.............

[Hans Mum]

Thanks all.......BM looks like we've done the right thing.

Wendy I'll ask them next time I see them......