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Will raspberries forgive me for being 'earthed up'?
kedisimpson
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in Fruit & veg
Hi people,
We are overhauling our veg patch and replacing the edges of the raised beds. The new edges are quite a lot higher than the old ones - up to a foot in places. I have a lovely well-established patch of autumn bliss raspberries: I'm not going kill them, am I, if I fill the raspberry bed to the new height of the edges? I thought it might be best to do it gradually rather than just submerging the new growth! So fill them up so there's still some green poking through the top, and then when they're a bit taller, do the same again, etc etc?
I kind of hoped that in the medium term they might like some lovely new soil (And - topsoil? Compost? Manure? A mixture? Was going to go for topsoil here.)
Thank you!
We are overhauling our veg patch and replacing the edges of the raised beds. The new edges are quite a lot higher than the old ones - up to a foot in places. I have a lovely well-established patch of autumn bliss raspberries: I'm not going kill them, am I, if I fill the raspberry bed to the new height of the edges? I thought it might be best to do it gradually rather than just submerging the new growth! So fill them up so there's still some green poking through the top, and then when they're a bit taller, do the same again, etc etc?
I kind of hoped that in the medium term they might like some lovely new soil (And - topsoil? Compost? Manure? A mixture? Was going to go for topsoil here.)
Thank you!
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Covering them with up to 1' of soil will bury that crown well under the soil.
I would guess it won't work, but I've never tried
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