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Mon, Jul 7, 14 at 9:07
| I have my blackberries and raspberries in a 1' high bed. I didn't have any runner issues until this year. I built two smaller raised beds adjacent to the current one, and I have runners now in both of those beds (raspberries in one and blackberries in the other). I'm guessing the roots found a way under the wall of their bed and then found the nice fluffy soil of the beds easy to spread into (my regular soil is clay that is pretty compacted). Anyway, I've been just plucking the runners as they appear, but am I better off pulling like I have been, or clipping them just below the soil line? Or doesn't it matter? |
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- Posted by larry_gene USDA8b-OregonPDX (My Page) on Tue, Jul 8, 14 at 0:34
| The further down you probe and cut out, the longer it will take for them to re-appear. Perhaps you can estimate a straight line from original to runner sprout and chop off the root of the runner on the inside of your original raised bed. That would remove some energy but would not prevent the remainder of the runner from re-sprouting unless you can fish it out of the ground from beneath two raised bed sides. Usually repeatedly removing sprouts at ground level makes this activity go away by mid summer, and of course it returns next spring. |
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