I'm not sure that ordinary raspberries are suited to pot cultivation as they have long roots. There is a new dwarf raspberry out specially bred for planting in pots I believe.
I'm surprised they get this invasive. We have a good few growing in our back garden - they pretty much stay where they are. In the three years that we had this house there was only six or seven shoots in total that appeared a bit further away, so I carefully dug them up and planted in pots. I will wait for them to root and either plant somewhere else in the garden or share with friends. Everybody is admiring our raspberries as they fruit in two long waves over summer and autumn (almost until the end of November).
The young shoots normally appear where the old ones died off, pretty much building a clump. Too bad we don't know the variety, as we would definitely recommend it.
I think the soil our may have something with this?
The place where we have planted these were originally lawn and heavy clay. We created a border early last year and literally rotovated a tonne of soil improver / manure, which has made the soil quite friable and easy to work with. I assume this makes the roots run due to lack of resistance?
Agree a pot may not be a good option. The other option is compost bin, which I really hate....
I have found them turning up in my bin area. I consider them to be invasive, especially when I picked a few and found white maggots in them. I would destroy all evidence of them, but it's up to you.
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I'm surprised they get this invasive. We have a good few growing in our back garden - they pretty much stay where they are. In the three years that we had this house there was only six or seven shoots in total that appeared a bit further away, so I carefully dug them up and planted in pots. I will wait for them to root and either plant somewhere else in the garden or share with friends. Everybody is admiring our raspberries as they fruit in two long waves over summer and autumn (almost until the end of November).
The young shoots normally appear where the old ones died off, pretty much building a clump. Too bad we don't know the variety, as we would definitely recommend it.
The place where we have planted these were originally lawn and heavy clay. We created a border early last year and literally rotovated a tonne of soil improver / manure, which has made the soil quite friable and easy to work with. I assume this makes the roots run due to lack of resistance?
Agree a pot may not be a good option. The other option is compost bin, which I really hate....