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raspberry planting spacing why so big?
yoweeyahoo2
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ive got a couple of rows of raspberries(newly planted) about 5 foot between rows as the experts/websites recommend.
Any idea why there needs to be such a big gap?
Aware of suckers but I will take these out anyway.
Conscious it leaves a lot of dead space that I could be using for something else.
Any help gratefully received
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Quite simply, yoweey, to allow sufficient room between rows to pick the fruit. even well trained canes will have a spread of 2ft.
And the suckers will be your plants for the following years - if you take them all out you'll have little fruit in the future
http://hardyperennial.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/lifting-raspberry-suckers.html
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
thanks all
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David is correct.
Perhaps I should have said, 2ft either side.