Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: rikknikk on August 01, 2010, 11:06
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Can anybody advise to take cuttings from Rasberry plants please, I have 3 plants and was hoping to doube this for next year from taking cuttings?
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Hi Rikknikk,
I suppose it is possible to take raspberry cuttings, but I'm not sure that the old wood would make very good cuuting material.
If you cut the old canes down to ground-level after fruiting, give them a good mulch, and keep them well fed and watered when growth restarts, then I'm sure that they will more than double next year :D
As a general rule, raspberries are multiplied by taking off some excess suckers that will come up round the parent plant ( the usual problem is having too many !).
Keep em well mulched, though: they have very shallow roots.
Good luck :)
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Last winter I dug up the 6 raspberries, planted a year ago (to transplant them on the plot) and planted the garden border with shrubs and flowers.
This year I have 8 new raspberries growing amongst the flowers. So to get more, just dig yours up and move them a bit ;)
This winter I will the dig the new raspberries up to take to the lottie.........we'll see if it happens all over again :lol:
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Thanks, can I take off the suckers and replant?
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You don't actually take them off, they pop up in the soil away from the parent cane.
You can dig these up and replant.