We’ve been slowly building up our raspberry bed since we’ve been living at this house. Now we’re into our third growing season you can see how quickly they’re spreading.
You should plant raspberry canes at least 50cm apart, which looks pretty pathetic at first as they are just little sticks in the mud. You can see why that’s important three years on, though.
In the picture up top you can see three years’ worth of growth. The little stick in the middle is new this year. It’s been in the ground for about three months and it just showing its first growth. The shrub to the left went in last year. It put on some growth last year and then sat dormant through the winter, putting down roots that have enabled it to grow a lot quicker this year.
The bush to the right, though, just behind the cat, is three years old. Its roots will now be pretty extensive, and as a result it has easily filled the 50cm gap we left it.
They’re all slightly different varieties, so I’m hoping that together they’ll bring us a full season of fruit by maturing at slightly different times. Of course, we won’t get so much from the new canes this year, but in three years’ time they, too, will be as big as the one on the right, and then we’ll have so many raspberries we should be able to freeze some for the winter.
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