I saw a several-year-old youtube video where a guy made very tall raised beds, like 3-4 feet tall, and planted raspberries in it. I made a comment asking if they had escaped out into the yard yet, and he replied saying “oh yes they definitely have”
You might consider doing a tall raised bed plus bamboo edging underground
Dang… storage totes it is 
3-4 ft tall is too much. Was hoping what i read was correct. Im not built for that haha
In time a raised bed will be alot of work with suckers by the thousands… especially with raspberries. Eventually they would fill the whole bed with roots and those roots would have many new plants forming as they wander looking for a better life.
They can be potted and much easier to manage.
Commercially Grown-
I like this better- and i think at least 5 years maybe more could be possible per bag. YMMV
Grow bags
Thank you for the photo!
I’ve seen photos and videos of commercial raspberries but no one has ever let me see the floor of them or they would be heavily buried under leaves. I wondered how they kept them in check.
I grow raspberries and marion berries in pots, make sure there is a separation of the container with the ground. Roots will find their way into the ground. I place mine on several bricks. My neighbor didn’t and had to help remove five foot long roots. For a raised bed, there would have to be some liner to prevent roots from escaping.
Any uneaten berries should be taken away or tossed back in the container. Raspberries aren’t as prolific as blackberries, but they can spread that way as well. Had to teach my kid to always do that, she’s been good, her friends not so much.
Those are some small containers for full size raspberry plants.
containers are a lot of work keeping them watered and fertilized though
best would be some kind of drip irrigation system that handled both
Does anyone know what temperatures are likely to damage or kill the canes for Caddo and Ponca? I believe I read they are a bit less hardy than many and it looks like I may get single digits next week.
Curious about Tayberry as well, but I think they’re tougher.
Next weeks negative temps and windchills will likely cause alot of winter damage. My zone pushing ones will likely have an off year.
With everything you’re growing you can at least give a complete comparative report. Painful data to gather, but it certainly will help a lot of people in the long run.
It is like we are having a real winter this time.
Im not sure my data makes any difference. Last year TNHunter i think lost all of his loganberry canes but mine did fine.
My only hypothesis on winter damage is pruning. Unpruned or lesser pruned seems to fare better than manicured here. So i mostly do my pruning in March. Ponca and PAF and Traveller seem to be my least hardy to winter damage here.
Will report any failures or extreme damage… This will be a true test for NewBerry… which has very little data.
On the other end of the spectrum I’ve got some newberry that’s going to get planted out this spring in coastal south Georgia that averages about 400 chilling hours
We’ll see if they bloom once they are established
And Wyeberry!
Newberry is grown in California by a specialty farm. They renamed it Ruby Boysen. So should be good to go for you.
Wye should do ok. Im most nervous abt the new things i planted in the fall… and super nervous that Siskiyou will get winter damage. Victory also needs this test… i expect most of my u of ark stuff and their oddballs from stark and gurneys to suffer. However Natchez looks to be a trooper. It was last to lose foliage and had the darkest greenest leaves of the u of arks here. I kinda think someone crossed Natchez and TC to make Victory… or something like that. I can see traits here and there especially in the foliage.
I certainly believe Victory has a lot of TC in it - I can’t tell the canes apart (at least at my current growth stage of about 1 year or so), they are both rubbery, flexible purple whips
never heard of this site so I don’t know if they’re trustworthy, but they show Thunderhead Blackberry in stock for five bucks each
At five bucks i might risk it, but going to look further into it first.
Edit, I looked at the website more closely and found that the email associated with the site is related to other fake websites and other forums have reported that email with scamming. I would not use that website.
Interesting background on that one. Looks like the Oregon breeding program used just East Coast varieties.
Edit: Whoops, Thunderhead is thorny, marked here as thornless. Fixed.
After almost 4 years i finally have obtained ‘Josephine’ Virginia Tech/U of Md bred red raspberry.
NOT the Hand Picked Nursery Josephine ’ Named after Princess Josephine of Denmark’
My source got them from Nourse nursery a long time ago.
I have tried and failed at every other attempt to get the true to name Josephine. Not sure if anyone on this forum or elsewhere still grows them but if so they are pretty shy about discussing.
In order to weed out the Hand Picked Nursery version… you have to go back a long time to get much information on it.
Roll call for anyone still growing the Josephine from 2010 (ish).
I will grow these out and go from there…