Growing Raspberries in Containers
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Epic Gardening
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🗓️ 5 May 2020
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Have you always wanted to grow raspberries but don’t have a permanent space? Or maybe your planting area doesn’t get much sun? Perhaps your apartment didn’t come with a yard or garden, but does have a sunny balcony or deck?
Growing raspberry plants in containers is easy and if you choose the right varieties, you could even harvest fresh raspberries several times during the season!
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| 0:00.0 | What's up everyone? |
| 0:04.0 | What's up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. We're talking |
| 0:18.4 | raspberries, but specifically raspberries in containers because a lot of |
| 0:22.4 | people don't grow raspberries in containers because a lot of people don't grow |
| 0:23.4 | raspberries because they think they need a sprawling acreage in order to do it. |
| 0:28.4 | There really are some benefits to growing plants like this in containers. |
| 0:32.3 | Number one, they can be Number one they can be moved |
| 0:33.8 | they can be moved to a literal new home or just to a sunnier spot you can craft the |
| 0:39.7 | exact perfect soil and you can control as we know with raspberries any crazy amount of |
| 0:46.2 | invasive spreading sometimes people consider raspberries to be a bit of a |
| 0:49.8 | weed because of the level that they can spread. |
| 0:52.8 | Now each raspberry is formed by a bunch of droplets, |
| 0:58.0 | each one its own tiny fruit. |
| 1:00.0 | Fun little fact about raspberries. |
| 1:01.6 | There are some newer bush raspberry varieties that are |
| 1:05.2 | completely intended for containers, but you can take a summer fruiting or everbearing |
| 1:10.8 | variety and put it in a pot. If it was me, I would probably opt to go with one of the ones that's |
| 1:17.1 | intended for containers. Something like a raspberry shortcake that was developed to grow in containers compact |
| 1:23.4 | thornless and works really well and it will only reach about two to three feet in height |
| 1:28.4 | you can use heritage raspberry bush that's an ever-bearing bush variety that will do well in containers |
| 1:34.8 | five to six feet in height. Red Latham, that's a self-pollinating summer bearing variety that'll go from late June to mid-July, four to six feet high. There's a couple others on the |
| 1:45.7 | website of course at epic gardening.com. Now, raspberries in containers. How do we prepare |
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