Growing Red Raspberries, Planting Raspberries, How to Grow Raspberries

When growing red raspberries, it is important to handle the bare-root plants with care.

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Some plants go into such a deep sleep when they become dormant that they can be pulled from the soil, washed clean, and sold with their roots bare.

Raspberries and other brambles are often purchased with bare roots in late winter and early spring, as are many fruit trees and flowering vines.

If you cannot plant your red raspberry plants right away, lay them on the ground and pile about 4 inches of damp soil or compost over the roots so they will not freeze.

Avid gardeners call this procedure, "heeling out".

To get the plants off to a trouble free start, give them a drink of compost tea.

When you lift out the plants a week or so later, do not be surprised if you see threadlike new roots.

This is a welcoming sign that the plants are emerging from their winter slumber at last!

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How to Grow Raspberries Using Compost Tea

Compost tea is the most healthful drink you can provide your growing red raspberries.

It delivers a well-balanced supply of important nutrients to plants and helps them to fend off diseases.

To make compost tea:

1 ½ gallons of fresh compost

4 ½ gallons of warm water

Growing Red Raspberries

Growing Red Raspberries Tips

Raspberry Mosaic Virus

This plant virus that attacks growing red raspberries should be watched out for.

It is often the reason raspberries grow very slowly, show little vigor, and produce berries that fall apart in your hands.

Leaves of infected plants frequently have curled edges, and may show dark green mottled patterns.

The best strategy is to get rid of an infected berry patch and begin a new one in a different location.