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    Another raspberry question

    I've cut down my autumn raspberries and put a good mulch of well rotted manure on them.....feeling quite proud when someone walks past and said raspberries don't like being mulched have I made a booboo or were they talking rubbish.......
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    I hope they are talking rubbish as I have recently done exactly the same....................Did they say why they don't like manure or is it just mulch in general?
    Last edited by Bigmallly; 15-03-2015, 09:09 PM.
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      I always understood they were shallow rooting and like a cool root run, which mulching would provide. Have been mulching raspberries every Autumn for over ten years and get good crops.

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      • #4
        I mulch mine too..

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        • #5
          Mulch mine every year too.

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          • #6
            I'd love to know what the reasoning was behind the comment.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Hans Mum View Post
              I've cut down my autumn raspberries and put a good mulch of well rotted manure on them.....feeling quite proud when someone walks past and said raspberries don't like being mulched have I made a booboo or were they talking rubbish.......
              They were taking rubbish ...
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              • #8
                P.S. In addition to the normal couple-of-inches of well rotted manure, which I apply annually, this year I am going to apply a deep layer of straw so that it becomes a no-weeding-bed
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                • #9
                  I think they're talking rubbish too.
                  ...............but, could it be because raspberries are shallow rooted and a decent mulch would make them deeper rooted?

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                  • #10
                    Well Iv'e made them even deeper with a spreading of wood ash.............
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                    • #11
                      Thanks all.......BM looks like we've done the right thing.

                      Wendy I'll ask them next time I see them......
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