I have been considering some black and raspberry bushes. Do they put offshoots out on their own once you have the first plant?
At $15 a bush, I was kinda hoping mother nature would take over!
Yes. Lots of shoots. I just till between berry rows to keep them in check.
One you have them you won't need to buy them again. I believe they are easy to propagate.
I’ve been growing raspberries for about 10 years. I grow the primocane varieties, so they fruit from new canes each year and I cut the old canes to the ground each winter. So I don’t use a trellis; I just let them form bushy rows.
Oh. Those are a bit harder to manage, but my recommendation is to try them without a trellis and see if you need one. You can always hedge trim them if they get unruly. The reason I say those are harder to manage (floricane varieties) is that you need to prune out the old canes, while keeping the new canes at the end of every season, so the pruning is slow and labor intensive. With primocane varieties, you cut everything to the ground in winter and they resprout with new fruiting canes each spring.
My experience is that raspberries will propagate quickly and take over any area you don't regularly mow. Blackberries propagate but much slower. I think it's because raspberries fruit on the new canes (so you can cut them all down at the end of the year) but blackberries bear on the 2nd year canes.
Depends on which type of raspberries you have. Floricane varieties fruit on second year canes. Primocane varieties fruit on new canes.
I have no idea what FWIW means.
Just some T-posts connected by two strands of smooth fence wire. We did tie the pairs of T-posts together across the trellis. Nothing fancy. We might have used an extra tall post at each end, but I don't recall exactly. Today, I would probably add a stay at each end, but it worked.
