Raspberry bushes invading my garden

[~Shanna~]

So a few years ago I planted red raspberry bushes what I thought was a very healthy distance from my garden. This year, they are invading it already.What can I do? These are healthy, new canes popping up in my garden beds, not dead ones that can just cut down....

Please help, it's holding up my entire garden

[sweetpeppers]

lucky you, raspberries are delicious. I'd never cut them down. Raspberries are expensive!

[limette]

I'm having the same problem. Raspberries were here when we moved in and the suckers are popping up all over the yard. They are pretty easy to pull though.

[~Shanna~]

Originally Posted by sweetpeppers

lucky you, raspberries are delicious. I'd never cut them down. Raspberries are expensive!

Yes, but i'ts precluding us growing anything else

Originally Posted by limette

I'm having the same problem. Raspberries were here when we moved in and the suckers are popping up all over the yard. They are pretty easy to pull though.

Oooh, I hadn't tried because I assumed they were attached to the main bush. I'll give it a try. All other advice I get involves Round Up .

[weliveintheforest]

maybe you could get someone off freecycle (or something) to come dig them up and take them away?

[Rhiannon Feimorgan]

You should be able to pull them up although it will take some work. Then you need to dig a trench about a foot deep between your garden and your raspberries and put some kind of barrier in it to keep the canes from spreading in that direction.

[lmonter]

Um, just dig up the new baby canes and move them where you want them.
It's easier on the canes if you move them when they're dormant and they bounce back quicker that way, but even if you transplant now and keep them watered they'll survive. Just may have a smaller-than-normal harvest until they find their bearings again.

What my canes do is send an underground runner (similar to above-ground strawberry runners). When I want to move the little ones, I just keep digging till I get most of the roots of the baby cane, and just snip it away from the parent cane. Not a problem, especially if you're handy with a shovel or even scissors. Shovel works fine for me though. The bigger the roots on the baby canes the happier they'll be though.

[Ellp]

Just a question on growing raspberry vines...
If I wanted to grow some, what would be the best way of doing it? Container? Grow it in the ground with some kind of barrier?

[CarrieMF]

When raspberry canes pop up where we don't want them we just mow over them or in the garden DH tills them up. If they pop up between the fall & spring tills we dig them out.

[honeybunch2k8]

Dig 'em up, package 'em, and send them to me!!! Sweetpeppers is right, those things are expensive!!!

[~Shanna~]

Originally Posted by limette

I'm having the same problem. Raspberries were here when we moved in and the suckers are popping up all over the yard. They are pretty easy to pull though.

I'm so sheepish - they pulled right up.