Hi, I’m Angela Price from Eden Condensed, small space garden design. And, we’re talking about raspberries today. Raspberries can either come in pots from the nursery, they can also come as bare roots. And, I love putting raspberries in the garden, because then not only do you have delicious fruit, but they have really nice foliage. You can also get thornless varieties too, so you don’t have to worry about sticky thorns. But, they fill in along a fence line or along a trellis or an arbor really nicely, and then of course they’ve got raspberries. So, this one here, it’s not quite bare root season right now, so I kind of want to show you what the roots of the raspberry look like. When you’re planting a bare root raspberry, what you’ll get is usually wrapped in burlap or some kind of cloth from your nursery center – you can also order them online through garden catalogues – is you’ll get some kind of, basically, sticks and roots. And, what you’ll want to do is first dunk these in some water for about five hours or so, so that they get nice and moist and you’ve got some good water going into the roots. A lot of times, they’ll come really dry. Once you’ve done that, you’ll want to dig a hole that’s about a foot or so wide, and a foot or so deep, and plant your bare-root raspberry in there. And then, backfill it with soil, and also put down some nice all-purpose fertilizer to get it going. And then, make sure that you do keep it evenly moist, and that you’re keeping your raspberries in an area where you’ve got at least six to eight hours of full sun every day. You can also put your raspberries in a raised bed – that’s another way to kind of keep them contained if you don’t want to grow them along a fence or a trellis. If you have any other questions about planting raspberries, including bare-root raspberries, please contact me at www.EdenCondensed.com. Thank you very much!
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