Raspberry Plants
The minimum order for Raspberry plants is 5 pots. Each pot comes with 2-3 stems in a gallon size pot with dirt. They are $7 per pot. These raspberries are red and have thorns. They will produce side shoots that can be dug up and placed in a new row.
You plants will be ready for pick up at Plowgirl Farm in Creston, MT in April. I will email you in April to arrange pick up times.
Raspberry Growing Instructions
Raspberries should be planted as a pot 3 feet from other raspberry plants. They like slightly acid soil, (6.5) but seem to be happy growing in most places. I added 6 inches of compost and an organic fertilizer to the soil before planting. Dig a hole as deep as the roots go and burry to root line. Tamp down well around roots and water deeply.
I top my raspberries with the wood shavings and manure from our chicken house. The carbon in the wood shavings offsets the nitrogen rich chicken manure. BUT, if you do this you must use organic chicken feed as I have had plants die from conventional chicken feed in the shavings. It is only OK to put fresh manure on plants 3 months before harvest, or or on a plant whose fruit do not touch the ground.
Raspberries are on my garden sprinklers, which give about 1-2 inches of water a week. In addition I have soaker hoses that give the plants an extra 2-3 hours of water every 2-3 days from June-August, or for the month before- the month after they produce fruit. This is the key to plump, sweet berries.