Raspberries Transplantation

Hi All,
Hi All,

Man next to me is sadly giving up his allotment and I have arranged to buy his raspberries of him for a small fee.  They are healthy looking Autumn bliss and are still producing fruit now (very nice it is to).  he has a bed about 2m by 2m that is packed with them.

Can i get some advice on the best way to move them from his plot to mine.  Namely the best method of doing this and how to prepare the area that I will transplant them into.  Also when is a good time to do this?

Added complication is that I am not entirely sure where to position them, is there a way to hold them for a while and then transplant later or is this too  much messing around in a brief period?

Many thanks for your help.

When ever I've wanted to add another row or given some away, I've dug up the new growth made this year thats out from the established row, if you see what i mean But autumn fruiters may be different.

I just moved a load last year (about 10 of the summer type and 10 autumn bliss) that had been cut back to twigs -

I just dug deep, got the rootball and stem for each plant (well most of the rootball as a few ripped apart!) and re-planted into wet, fertile soil. It worked fine - have had a huge crop of summer raspberries and have already had a few kg of autumn bliss.

I sat mine in a bucket of water for weeks until I decided where to put them 

They are fine and i'd have had a bumper crop had they been netted 

If you do it late autumn, early winter - you'll find those runners that Salmo mentioned already on the parent roots waiting to burst forth in spring.