Things You'll Need:
- 6 foot high metal or 2x2 wooden stakes
- Electric Fence wire or other strong wire light enough to guage to twist together
- Pliers
- Ten pound mall (driving hammer)
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Step 1
Decide how much space you have, and how many plants you want allowing 36 inches between each plant for new vines to sprout with next years crop of berries. Allow two support stakes between each two plants and a set of two supports at either end of the row.
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Step 2
Dig a trench one foot wide and one foot deep to plant raspberries. Aerate soil with peat moss or manure and add fertilizer(as recommeded by your nursery).
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Step 3
Hammer your stakes at either end of the trench and down either side of the trench every six feet until you have all your stakes in.
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Step 4
Fasten wire to your first stake approx. 18in. above the ground. Use pliers to twist the wire around the stake firmly so it will not slip down. Go down the row to the next stake, attaching wire, and continue in this manner to the end of the row; where you will wire across the trench to the opposite side stake one foot away, then to the end of the row fastening there, then across the end of the trench back to where you began. Strengthen longer structures with ties holding stakes across the trench at six foot intervals as required.
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Step 5
Repeat this step at twelve to eighteen inch intervals high so that you have three to four rows of wire to tuck you vines behind as they grow.
