Articles for Raspberries

Pests & Diseases Buying Raspberry canes from a specialist source, and making sure they are well treated to get the most vigorous and happy canes, will encourage some natural defence against these enemies, and problems will be much less common. But even the perfect row of raspberries will suffer from something sooner or later, often these are fairly minor diseases that can be tolerated, occasionally things get more serious. Either way here is a checklist of the most likely causes of any problems you may experience. Aphids Aphids aka Greenfly will cause distorted and curled new leaf growths. Light infestations may […]

Pruning Raspberry Canes Correct pruning, of raspberry canes at the right time, is essential to providing good crops of raspberries, and summer fruiting [floricane] varieties require pruning at a different time to autumn fruiting [primocane] varieties, although the method is just the same. After planting your new canes should be cut right back to just an inch or two from the ground. This might seem drastic but is prevents the cane you have planted from flowering and fruiting, which is important because you don’t want the new plants wasting energy producing a crop the first season and it isn’t worth […]

Advice for Growing Raspberries in Pots & Containers Raspberry plants in pots I get asked about planting raspberries in pots a lot and most if not all soft fruits will do well as container grown specimens as long as a few simple rules are observed. Most soft fruits that is, except Raspberries! I’ve seen a few glossy photo’s of lush-looking raspberries growing in pots and laden with fruit. Many of them are staged I feel because the reality is rather different. Raspberries just do not seem to like long term cultivation in containers of any kind and they’re natural growth […]

Growing Raspberries Buy Raspberry Canes from our wide range of variety raspberry bushes. Second only in popularity to strawberries, as soft fruit goes, the Raspberry is one of the most important area’s of any self-respecting fruit garden. Prolific and long lived, the fruits suit so many purposes – as fresh berries, jams, preserves, pies, juicing, yogurt making and much more – plus they freeze well, better than strawberries. So really you can never have too many raspberries! This guide – how to grow raspberries – aims to encourage and inform so that you can get the very most from the […]

Despatch & Planting We despatch all year round, usually within 3-5 working days of receipt. Trees are supplied bare-root Autumn-Spring and in containers/ex container from late Spring to Autumn. Yield estimates & space required 1-1.5 ib’s per foot of cane run. 5 canes requires not less than 60″;x36″;. Tie to first crop – if left unpruned your raspberry canes will produce first berries the sae suer following planting; however it is recoended that the canes are cut back after planting which prevents fruit the first year and concentrated the strength into production of new growth. View Our Raspberry Plants