Raspberry 'Tulameen'

Planting Advice:

• Plant roughly 50cm apart in rows, along walls or fences or in beds where further support from posts can be used.
• They can also be grown in large pots (40cm+ diameter) on your patio, balcony, terrace and more.
• Select an appropriate spot for your plants, making sure that you give them enough space to grow to their full size.
• For best results, plant in a sunny but sheltered position.
• Roots generally tend to spread out rather than down, so dig a planting hole 3 x wider than the roots of the plant and mix some well-rotted compost or manure with the soil from the hole and use this to re-fill once the raspberry is in place.
• Before planting soak container-grown plants thoroughly and allow to drain.
• Remove the plant from its pot and tease out a few of the roots.
• Add Mycorrhizal fungi to the roots when planting to help plants establish quicker.
• Place your raspberry in the hole at the same level at the pot.
• Refill the hole with the earth removed (backfilling).
• Firm in the soil with your heel, avoiding the root ball and then water well.
• Mulch around the base of the plant with a collar, compost, gravel, bark etc

Aftercare Advice:

• Keep plants well watered and tie in any long canes to supports.

Top raspberry cane pruning tips:

• Summer-fruiting varieties crop in July on last year's growth, so when their season finishes, cut down the fruiting stems.
• New shoots will soon emerge, and next year's fruit will be produced on these one-year-old, ripened canes.
• If you would appreciate fresh raspberries over a longer season, grow at least one summer and one autumn variety of raspberry bushes.