Autumn raspberrries

Morning folks...I ordered some autumn raspberry canes and will be with me shorty..The ground is soaking wet now..Do i plant them when they arrive or would you wait till spring and plant them then..Thanks!

 

ASAP with any bare rooted plant , have you prepared the planting area already ?

you could heal them in for a couple of weeks , I woudnt leave in a bundle from the nursery and wait till spring.

Spruce

 

Planting area is all ready for the canes..Cheers spruce,Gonna plant canes when they arrive.

 

you only shallow plant them anyway as the roots wont be that big I planted mine 3 or 4 inches deep then used a bark mulch over the top once planted

 

Yup i have some autumn bliss raspberries in the garden,Just adding more to give me a bigger harvest next year..

 

so easy from hardwood cuttings at this time of year and you probably have enough already to take the cuttings from

Spruce

 

Didn't realise you could take cuttings from Raspberry canes..

 

, use the bottom of the cane about 12 inches and use a spade to make a gap in the soil put some sand in the bottom and straight cut at the bottom and a slanting cut on the top so you dont get any water sitting on it plus you know which end is which to plant, put the cutting in leaving about two inches showing and then firm in with your heal leave about 6 inches between each one and transplant next Autumn its that simple

 

Thank you Spruce

 

Still awaiting the arrival of my Autumn Raspberries , When they come I shall run out in the rain dig holes and get them in....

 

I've always increased my stock of raspberries by transplanting runners into new beds (not necessarily an option for those with newly planted raspberries), but I have heavy clay soil that gets waterlogged in winter which is why I have them growing in raised beds to improve the drainage.

If I was to plant anything 10" deep it would be down into the in solid clay, and if I was to dig a trench and backfill with soil/sand it would act as a sump and get waterlogged, so if I wanted to try taking cuttings I see my options as making a 10" deep raised bed which seems like too much work, or putting the cuttings in ex-Morrisons flower buckets converted to pots, filled with a lighter soil and about 10 cuttings per pot (?). I'm about to cut my autumn rasberries down any day now and was thinking of trying the latter method.

Anybody used pots for over winter raspberry cuttings?

 

so glad you came up with a alternative to what I suggested

 

@Spruce but do you think it will work OK using pots? They will be more exposed to freezing weather, but I could put the pots in a polytunnel for what it's worth. I used to think of the stems as rubbish for burning, but now see that as a waste of potential cuttings.

I've just been to my plot and estimated I'll be cutting off about 200 autumn raspberry stems soon and wondered if it would be the effort of taking 200 cuttings (I've got loads of big pots and bought a stack of bags of sand from Homebase reduced to 50p because they were wet and going green).

 

sounds great pots will be fine but add a couple of inches of compost with sand and firm down so when the cutting goes in it has a good base to sit in , remember to leave alone once all planted up till next Autumn to plant out, no nosing to see how the roots are getting on , poly tunnel will be ideal.