Cheapest raspberry canes?

bizzylizzy

Does anyone know where I can buy raspberry canes and blueberry bushes as cheaply as possible? I've been looking at some online sites but they seem quite expensive.

peter_the_piper

Beware of the cheapest, often you get a lot of failures and this then makes the dearer ones cheaper, if you know what I mean.

bizzylizzy

That's a good point, thanks, I haven't grown either before, obviously I want good plants that will give me fruit but I don't want to pay too much for them.

Rummer

I got all my bushes from poundland and got abundant fruit year after year

peter_the_piper

Watch the soil requirements for blueberries, if you are a limey soil you could well struggle.

SailorSam

I've bought things from the £shop and mostly been pleased with the result.

bizzylizzy

Thank you, that's great, I'll keep a look out in the poundshop, presumably for raspberry canes? How about blueberry bushes?

RAS

Be very careful with "blueberry" as the pound shops often sell
Vaccinium myrtillus which is the English heath plant not the blueberry you see in shops.

For raspberries, ask if anyone you know has a few spare canes they can let you have? Most of use have to dig up strays repeatedly. Also get some summer and some autumn canes.

Beware shops that sell you one raspberry cane for up to £4. The better specialist nurseries charge £18 per 10.

Floss

I need to replace the larger of my clumps of raspberry canes on my lottie as they have raspberry leaf curl and are steadily being affected, as well as having been "infested" with bindweed from the plot next door... Not sure I'd be happy with taking local dig-out canes from other plot holders on my site as they may well also be infected with the virus.

Badrick

Lidl & Aldi sometimes have them at a reasonable price, you would have to keep checking their upcoming weekly deals to find out when they do stock them.

peter_the_piper

Try to get them on the first day and hope they have not dried out in between.