20 January 2008
Raspberry Canes
Posted by Richard under: Fruit & Vegetables; Smallholding .
We planted up the raspberry canes today. We’ve got eighteen canes and with one and a half foot between each cane there was enough room for two rows in the area we set aside. We have three varieties - and early, a mid-season and a late fruiting - and we weren’t sure how best to split them up. In the end we went for three of each in each row.
We will be watching them now hoping to see new growth coming from the base.
Oh - and we planted a whole heap of garlic in one of the raised beds. I know we were potentially a bit late doing garlic…but better late than never.
2 Comments so far...
Rebecca (smallholding in Ireland) Says:
21 January 2008 at 10:46 pm.
We planted canes last year and that season we had tons of fruit … all eaten direct from the bush by the children though. Your garlic might not split into cloves unless theres another cold snap, but you might be lucky. I think it also depends on the variety and its worth a try.
sam Says:
30 January 2008 at 5:33 pm.
Am going to try and plant my veggies by the cycles of the moon this year, and as far as i can gather both Garlic and Raspberrys should be planted when the moon is half full to full (2nd 1/4) but as i dont know if it was than wont be much help!