What ??? nobody is growing raspberries, easy to look after and easy to pick. I've tried explaining my method but found it much easier with pictures
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This is how I grow mine in a slightly raised bed...
First decide how long your bed is to be, put a T-bar at each end with a spreader board down the middle, drill holes in the ends of the crossbar and string clothes line wire around and tighten, to keep taunt, the spreader board stops it from caving in.
Plant as many canes as will fit in a staggered row, you won't get fruit the first year, concentrate on growing some healthy cane and as long as possible, the wire will keep them contained or they can be tied to the spreader board.
In the fall late October for me when the new canes bend easily without snapping, start on one side and start overlapping and weaving each cane as you come to it over and around the next one. This is what it will look like.
This is what it looks like in early spring on both sides of the spreader board.
Sometimes a cane will let loose but they are easily tied back in.
Not the best picture but the raspberries are at just the right height for picking, new canes are trained to grow in the center next to the spreader board. When the berries are finished it's time to cut the old canes out, just clip below the wire and remove. The old cut canes are easy to distinguish from the new ones being shorter, clip them out. Those are Spanish bluebells growing with the raspberries, I though I had got them all when we renewed the bed with a different variety of raspberry (Tulameen) but alas they came back with a vengeance, so there they stay.
NOTE: The height of your T-bar should be at a height that is a comfortable height for picking.
Annette
They do have thorn less out there I want to try - as we are digging out the thorny ones. Gave up on strawberries too. The grass took over.
