When to split a gooseberry bush from a raspberry cane

Savvy_Sue

Earlier this year, we raided my late mother's garden and I got some raspberry canes. Most of them were 2-3' high with several leaves, so we put them in the ground. We got a few raspberries off them but they now look very dead.

However, one of them was just a couple of sticks with only a single tiny tiny leaf, so we put it in a big deep pot and cherished it, and it started to grow, madly!

We now have what I'm convinced is a flourishing gooseberry bush and a thriving raspberry cane, in a pot about a foot deep and 9" across. No sign of any fruit.

So, can I risk leaving them together, or should I split them? And if so, when I should I try to do this? I intend leaving them both in pots, but I'd be very sad if I killed them both, especially the raspberry cane.

And I know it's going to be a horrible job because they are both very viciously prickly.

tanith

I'd do it in late Autumn after the raspberry has finished fruiting (although I see yours isn't fruiting yet) and has shed its leaves, it will be dormant and will take the move better than when its growing. If you tip them out of the pot and gently tease the roots apart trying not to damage them then replant them separately.

wallbash

and I got some raspberry canes. Most of them were 2-3' high with several leaves, so we put them in the ground. r

So we don't know if they are summer or Autumn varieties?
Very early in the year......summer
April ..........summer or Autumn

You can't really do any harm cutting strongly back.
Summer won't fruit next year but Autumn will. But the plant will survive.

Personally would dump the plant and just buy some 'canes' to plant now.
You will Know what they are and be able to prune when required.

Savvy_Sue

wallbash wrote: »

So we don't know if they are summer or Autumn varieties?

No, we have no idea ...

wallbash wrote: »

You can't really do any harm cutting strongly back.
Summer won't fruit next year but Autumn will. But the plant will survive.

So is now the time to cut the raspberries back, both the 'dead' and alive?

wallbash wrote: »

YPersonally would dump the plant and just buy some 'canes' to plant now.
You will Know what they are and be able to prune when required.

Ah, but then it wouldn't be my mother's raspberry cane would it?

Plus I anticipate moving in the next year or two, so reluctant to plant for someone else's benefit. Hence putting one in a tub.

tanith

I am picking my Summer fruiting raspberries now every day, my Autumn fruiting ones are just flowering now and they are much taller than my Summer fruiting ones.. I cut down the canes that have finished fruiting

wallbash

I started my Autumn Bliss last day of July .