Transplanting raspberries from old allotment to new one?

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Paulj

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So we moved 2 miles down the road to another village in September and I'm not allowed my old allotment according to the parish rules. Doesn't matter as I've just got a bigger better plot which although it needs work to completely clear it, it does have an established asparagus bed.  That's the great bit as I stupidly left my 3 year old asparagus pots in the last garden and only realised when it was way too late to politely ask for them back.

Anyway, my question is, I have raspberry canes that I planted on my old plot and would like to move them to the new lotty, except I haven't cleared it yet as I literally just got it, and also don't know where I want them to go yet.  Can this wait until early spring, giving me a chance to clear a space for them on the new plot?

Also is it normal for new canes to grow to 8/9 or even 10ft long? They are autumn canes and just kept growing this summer!


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Re: Transplanting raspberries from old allotment to new one?
« Reply #1 on: December 10, 2012, 20:08 »
Dig them out now and put into pot's if the new bed is not ready. Do not leave until spring as the plant's will be out of their dormancy period by then.

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Re: Transplanting raspberries from old allotment to new one?
« Reply #2 on: December 10, 2012, 20:16 »
I'd say you've got a couple of months to get them planted at the most, and yes they can grow tall but they have to be cut to the ground each winter  ;)

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Re: Transplanting raspberries from old allotment to new one?
« Reply #3 on: December 10, 2012, 21:46 »
Mumofstig - surely I don't cut the new canes down at all?  I thought you only cut the previous years old ones?

So I have a little bit of time to do something with them then.  I need to checks the ground at the new site and see how hard it is already. My other option is to perhaps leave them in place until next autumn but then I need to care for 2 allotments 2 miles apart, and the new one only being across the road.


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Re: Transplanting raspberries from old allotment to new one?
« Reply #4 on: December 10, 2012, 22:37 »
For raspberries any canes that have fruited this year are cut down to the gound.
If they are really Autumn fruiting ones that will be all of them  ;)

http://www.ashridgetrees.co.uk/Pruning-Raspberries-Autumn-Fruiting

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Re: Transplanting raspberries from old allotment to new one?
« Reply #5 on: December 11, 2012, 11:17 »
When I got my plot in May there were autumn rasps all over (as identified by neighbours), mostly smothered in weed. I prepared a bed for them, cut them down to the ground and moved what I could rescue. Most of them fruited quite well this autumn. They seem to be pretty tough.


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