Planting Raspberry Heritage Bareroot

This is my very first attempt at planting raspberries. I didn't overly research it but did read that they are pretty easy to grow and not overly picky. They do like slightly acidic soil and mostly sunny areas but will tolerate some shade as well.

In my research the basic things I saw were to use some peat moss and compost. I wanted to work with what I had on hand, so used peat moss and some hummus and manure.

I dug a hole about a foot deep and a foot wide (excuse my typo in the video). I added a solid handful of peat moss to the empty hole and blended it with some soil I loosened along the sides of the hole.

After that I added a handful or so of peat moss to the soil pile I removed from the hole along with some hummus and manure ( about 1 handful)

We held the raspberry roots in place with the roots low enough to be completely in the soil once we filled the hole and covered about an inch of the base of the plant as well as we backfilled with our soil mixture.

I gave the plant enough water that it was not absorbing immediately and also spread the packaging material from the plant along the base of the plant as well.

This may not be the perfect scientific method of planting a raspberry bush, BUT my hope is that it truly is a simple plant to please and by following some of the basic tips I read about, we will eventually have a thriving raspberry bush!