Transplanting Wild Rasberries?

[frugalwilady]

I'm assuming thats how "tame" rasberry patches got started... Has anyone done this? Can I do it now? (frost is barely out of the ground here)

[amelia]

I have transplanted raspberries only once and know nothing about the "correct" way of doing it. The one interesting lesson I learned was that the transplants nearly always look like goners a few days after transplanting but perk up and do fine after a few weeks.

[frugalwilady]

I guess thats what I'm going to do... fly by the seat of my pants! Its worth a try they're free! I'll just move em, throw some compost in, water em, and pray! Unless someone else has any ideas...?

[Billie in MO]

Put them in a spot that you don't care about them spreading. Mine are spreading to places I don't want them in. (iris/daylily beds and my vegetable garden).

[Thoughthound]

Really, they are pretty hard to kill.

[minnikin1]

The only extra thing that might help is to prune them back after you move them... forces them to put energy into the roots..

[frugalwilady]

Surfed around a little bit and found directions for planting raspberries that you order and it basically said what I was going to do plus the pruning (thanks!) and planting them 4 in deeper than the root crown.