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Dealing with weeds around raspberries
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Posted by Graham_D (My Page) on Sun, Sep 11, 05 at 7:29
| Hi, I have a question about caring for raspberries and getting rid of the weeds around them. We have a large patch of raspberries in the garden that are not tied up or in particular rows - they have been left to grow wild for a few years. We had a wonderful crop of fruit this year from them - however, weeds have become a real problem. Large patches of dense weeds have taken over and are growing all around the raspberry canes, from tall and couch grass to sweetheart weed, stinging nettles, weeds with leaves akin to strawberries that send runners with several plants on them and weeds that sprout long, tough stalks and have small yellow flowers that turn into a cluster of seeds with hooks that can latch onto things. Luckily, we have some new canes for next year that grew earlier in the year, and some young canes have recently appeared above the tangle of weeds.
This year I've also noticed that on the new raspberry canes, the lower leaves are starting to yellow and wilt a little, too. Can anyone give me any advice on combatting the jungle of weeds around the raspberries, and any advice on the leaf yellowing? |
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RE: Dealing with weeds around raspberries
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| why dont you try the autumn fruiting types we were given some several years ago they have gradually got better they do not sucker the some as some do and this year we had fruit early then a second crop with huge berries,as the plants are not so prolific they are easier to keep clean I could not tell you the variety we have I'm sorry to say hope this might be of help |
RE: Dealing with weeds around raspberries
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| Hi, Your raspberry patch seems to have gone way out of hand, and they tend to do that if you do not remove the suckers and grow them in rows. If you want to keep them, I guess you will have to clean up around them and remove and plant some of the suckers in adjacent rows. The extras also make excellent gifts! Once you've got them in rows, you'll find it so much easier to look after them, pick the fruit, cut down old stems, weed, etc. So go for it, and you can look forward to a bumper crop next year. |
RE: Dealing with weeds around raspberries
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| in one of the french web site, i've seen that some of them put forget-me-not under the rasberries cane for companion planting, have not tried it myself yet, but planning to do it this year with my new allotment... maybe putting flowers under it might suppress the weeds after a good clean up... |
RE: Dealing with weeds around raspberries
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| To try and beat the weeds you have, you could always lay down sheets of plastic, or opened out compost bags, or whole newspapers, to supress what is growing. Then once spring arrives then hand weed what is left alive. Mulching with home-made compost, or well rotted manure, or something, in the future will help keep weeds down. |
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