Transplanting Fruit Bushes

[Emagggie]

I have been told I can help myself to anything that is growing on the disused part of our allotment before it is taken over by the local football club. The raspberries,black & red currants and now the Oregon blackberries have all been very good. Bearing in mind that they have all been neglected for a few years now,do you think it's worth trying to salvage some bushes
(if I can get them out) or should I start with new stock ?
Opinions please. :D

[Emagggie]

[calendula]

ooh yes, get what you can, be careful to dig them out with as much root as possible but if too big take cuttings - the black berries will root just by laying the canes into the ground - maybe take cuttings anyway, just in case

[saddad]

When is the takeover? Most established fruit bushes won't like you for it but currants are easily propagated, and brambles even easier... put a bucket of soil/compost under a new shoot tip, hold it down with a brick and it will root in a matter of weeks. Currant cuttings best taken ea Oct...

[Emagggie]

Not until the 'enviromental studies' have been completed Saddad, so I think I've got a month or three  ;D I understand the ES folk have to put a covering over an area and study what they find. What a shame if it got moved-they'd have to do it all over again, wouldn't they. ;D
I think it's a belt and braces job then Calendula. I wondered whether the fruit would be as good as the original.

[Mrs Ava]

Ooo, I would take loads and loads of cuttings!  Then, if you have the time, wait for as long as possible, then dig them up, replant with plenty of rotted compost, water very well, mulch very well, then prune the bushes back by at least a 3rd.  I did this with a couple of gooseberry bushes, and they have been great, but I think it was late September when I did it.  All fruits grow so easily from cuttings (says the girl who failed to get any jostaberry cuttings last year!).   :-\

[Emagggie]

Thanks EJ, took blackberry cuttings on Saturday, will endeavour to  take some from currant bushes next weekend. Ever hopeful....... ;)

[caroline7758]

Useful thresd for me as someone is offering black and whitecurrant bushes on my local freecycle.Thanks!

[Leonnie]

I had to move my soft fruit bushes this time last year when I gave up my second plot. The timing wasn't ideal but I kept them well watered and they all survived apart from one autumn raspberry.