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Raspberry - invasive?

AlchemistAlchemist Posts: 273
edited November 2018 in Problem solving
Dear all, I planted 2 rasberries last autumn at the back of my flower bed. Now, I’m finding them popping up 1-2 meters away! I’m concered this is going to take over the bed and possibly head to the other side of the fence and annoy our neighbours. If they can’t be kept to 1 sqm then need to go. Is this possible or is the compost heap the answer? Cheers.
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  • AlchemistAlchemist Posts: 273
    Thanks @pansyface I’ll move this to a biggish pot for now as am truly terrified with the distance it can travel. Will removing the mother plant and spot weeding sorts this out or am in in for a longer battle. 

    Also, do people generally have rasberries in a separate fruit/veg plot? 

    Thanks. 
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    I have mine in an area on my veg plot.
    I used a root barrier all around them and 2 years on, none have escaped so far...

    Billericay - Essex

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    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    In our last garden I first planted them ina bed in the veggie plot, separated form the ornamentals by a trellis fence with climbers.  They ran rampant so I removed them to a raised bed surrounded by grass that was regularly mowed and spen the next couple of years pulling out random raspberries from the ornamentals.   Easy enough.

    As Pansy and Pete say, it needs barriers of some sort and you need to know that the best fruits are on the new stems so always cut down the ones which have fruited to leave space and available nutrients for the next crop. 
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    My raspberries have been travelling around my veg garden for some years now. They have completely deserted the posts and wire that we put up to support them. I work around them and when there are too many I dig them up. But none of my gardening books warned me that this would happen!
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Mine come up right in the middle of the lawn if he hasn’t cut it for a week or two! 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    I have three young plants in a small raised bed near my veg plot, but they do keep making a break for freedom, so I’m going to dig them up and turn it back to the seed bed it was. I’ve now dug out a new raspberry plot a good distance away where they can romp away if they want to. I don’t think they are a good fit in a flower bed, so I think you are wise to get rid of them from there.
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    I planted a row of 6 autumn fruiting ones in front of the boundary fence and haven't a clue whether they've popped up on my neighbours side - he's never commented on them. So far I've had a couple of runners popping up in the strawberry bed next door which I just pull up but the most annoying one is right in the middle of the cultivated blackberry clump. My books never mentioned they run either so I had no idea!
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    I'd already planted mine when I read a post on here that mentioned that they spread quite quickly.
    Amazon to the rescue with some stout root barrier.
    I've contained them to an area of about 1 sq m, so there's quite a thicket of them that I'll thin out a bit in early spring.

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • AlchemistAlchemist Posts: 273
    Many thanks all. Yes, books don’t mention this, which they really should! I thinks it’s going to a pot. Can’t do barriers as it’s at the back of of my perennial bed and thus far have been careful not to include runaway plants. Initially I thought they were some weed. But yesterday when digging out, I followed it almost a meter, before I lost it and from the leaves, realized must be a rasberry.  I just hope it doesn’t keep coming back. 
  • SkandiSkandi Posts: 1,723
    They are good little runners yes, my grandmother had a nice area for them, with path on all sides, a good 1.5m of paved path, and they still ran under that and up into the flower bed on the other side! Right now I'm trying to increase mine so the runners are appreciated. but soon enough they will be put into a bed surrounded by grass, so I can mow off any escapees.
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