If you want to plant new raspberries in the garden, you should plan this work for the fall. This is the best time to plant young raspberry plants. They then have enough time to take root before they go into hibernation.
When should you plant raspberries?
The best time to plant raspberries is in autumn, as the sun shines less intensely and the plants have enough time to root. Autumn raspberries bear fruit the following year. Spring planting is possible, but the first harvest is not until the second year.
When is the best time to plant raspberries?
Raspberries thrive best when you plant them in the garden in autumn. Then the sun no longer shines as strongly and dries out the young plants.
On well-prepared soil, the root cuttings or offshoots have enough time to form new roots.
Autumn raspberries, whose fruits grow on annual wood, bear their first fruit the following autumn and can be harvested.
Planting raspberries in spring
If you missed the best time to plant your raspberries, you can still plant raspberries in early spring if necessary.
However, the time until the first flowering and therefore the first harvest is too short.
Raspberries planted in spring can only be harvested in the second year.
The right soil preparation
- Loose the soil
- Improve with compost or manure
- Removing weeds
- Set scaffolding after planting
- Protect young plants from frost.
How to plant new raspberries
Whether autumn or spring planting: good soil preparation is the be-all and end-all of raspberry cultivation. This applies to both summer raspberries and autumn raspberries.
Choose a sunny, wind-protected location with well-drained, nutritious soil.
Plant the seedlings in the prepared soil and provide a framework to which you can tie them later.
Protect young raspberries from frost
Raspberries are hardy. However, if you plant in the fall, you should provide light winter protection. The plants will then grow better.
Spread straw, pine branches or a layer of ripe compost on the bed.
Tips & Tricks
If you plan to plant new raspberry bushes, prepare the soil in time. Sow a green manure such as bee willow or mustard seed on the planned location in August, which you then dig under before planting. This keeps the soil free of weeds, loosens it thoroughly and at the same time provides it with new nutrients.
