[stompy]

Hi,

Iwent to the supermarket yesterday an paid £1.99 for around 25 raspberrys. (more fool me  )

Our little girl loves them in her packup and i was just wondering if an how long i could extend the season by growing a couple of pot grown Autum raspberry plants in the greenhouse?

Would this work and would it extend the season by much?

[JayG]

My guess is that the extra warmth would speed them up and they would finish fruiting even quicker (another possibility is that the heat might kill them - they're not heat-lovers.)

(Any chance your little girl could be persuaded to take to frozen rasps stirred into plain yoghurt or something similar?)

[stompy]

(Any chance your little girl could be persuaded to take to frozen rasps stirred into plain yoghurt or something similar?)

She's only 7 she takes a yoghurt already, it's more about getting fresh fruit in her diet and if she likes something then it's our responsibility to give her it! (within reason  )

I thought about having them in pots so i could move them undercover when the cold weather started so i could keep them cropping for longer and take them out in the spring and summer so as not to overheat them.

[kosh42|EFG]

My neighbour's autumn raspberries are still fruiting now (I'm hoping I get more jam). Then again it is unseasonably warm at the moment.

Kosh

[Yorkie]

I doubt that raspberries would be that happy in pots.  The pots will restrict their root growth considerably.

[gavinjconway]

You could do some summer fruiting rasps as well so you could have a longer fruiting period..

[Jamie Butterworth]

At the nursery where i work, any rasberries that we dont sell get put into a polytunnel round back until next spring when they go back on sale. I went down yesterday to check on them, and got a good few handfuls of rasberries off the few plants we have left, so I reckon that it could well work

[mumofstig]

I believe I've seen a programme where they were grown in huge polytunnels in Scotland, but planted in the ground..I know mine didn't fruit very well the year they stayed in pots, much better in the ground