I meant to say SHORT T posts. I’ve forgotten the measurement, but they looked to be less than waist high. The canes just draped over the wires to keep a tangle off the ground.
Why do you hate raspberries?
These seem to reproduce from canes. The ‘mother plant’ will send up new shoots several feet away. Kind of like blueberries do. ‘Suckers’ if you will. We just take a sharpshooter and dig those guys up and move them where we want them. You can also bend the canes down and use a wire piece shaped like a ‘U’ to hold them to the ground and supposedly they’ll root there too. Read that one in a fruit horticulture book but haven’t tried it yet. You could probably reproduce them from seeds but I’m not sure if they produce true to kind. Especially if you have more than one kind of berry (raspberry, blackberry, etc).
I plan for these brambles to be ‘wide’ enough that bambi’s will think twice about jumping over them. We don’t have too many of them though as there are a lot of redneck hunters in these parts.
Oh, *I* **adore** raspberries. They just hate the deep south. Between soil diseases/pests and the fact that all but one or two varieties simply stop respiration when temps are above 90 they pretty much all die down here. Ask me how I know that ;)
*sigh*
I will try the one variety that’s pretty much ‘it’ for around these parts next year. I found a nursery in Arkansas that’s pretty well rated on Daves Garden forum that actually sells them. Yay. The variety isn’t supposed to be great for fresh eating but supposedly cans and makes jelly just fine. Which is all I usually want anyways.
We’ll probably do the tpost wire thingie for my thornless blackberries just outside my window. Just enough support to keep them ‘in line’. The blackberries along the fenceline will be trimmed brutally to keep them in their place. I’m not looking to maximize production with them. Just keep them ‘neat’ looking on ‘my’ side of the fence.