Anyone growing autumn-fruiting raspberries?

[MuffinMclay]

If so, do yours have leaves and signs of growth by now? Mine (planted last autumn) still look like sticks in the ground. I can't work out if they are dead or not.

[Zofloyya]

yes, mine have loads of new growth - sorry! they are quite well established though, and I have a very dim memory that maybe they were slow to come through the first year after I planted them.

[MuffinMclay]

Even more now.

Might get back in touch with the supplier. Perhaps they suppled dud sticks.

[prettybird]

I bought tplants in early April and planted them. They were already swoying some signs of growth, but I was ruther less and chopped everything back down to ground level. Since then there has been loads of growth - there both shwoing bushy growth of about 8 inches.

Did you water them well when they were planted?

[MuffinMclay]

I got them bare-rooted back in November. Planted them in the ground on the day they arrived, have kept them well watered, and nothing.

[thefuturesbright]

sounds terminal to me - mine are rampant already and the summer fruiting ones are flowering already

[MuffinMclay]

I got in touch with Crocus (who supplied them) and they are going to refund my money. Hoorah!

Bit disappointed that I won't have all the raspberries to look forward to though. My defunct raspberry patch will become a courgette patch, but they're not quite the same....