raspberry beds

anyone know of a weed killer you can use in raspberry beds

I mulch the heck out of mine to keep weeds down. I wouldn’t use a weed killer in the bed. You can dig the live stems and till the bed, then re-plant and super mulch but you might not get a very good crop this year. I do the till/re-plant about every five or six years and add in some new canes to help keep genetics running pure.

Don’t forget to acidify soil that might help with some weeds.

Warning this is advise from a loser in the berry field 6 different variety planted only one survived. No I don’t know variety either.

Acidifying may help a little but I’d go really easy on it since the plants are established without the acid. The only thing I put in the raspberry bed is 10-10-10 fertilizer and that goes on in the late fall after the canes have been cut back.

Cover the ground with pine needles every fall. Helps acidify, looks nice and can help keep the weed growth at bay.

I have a white pine in the yard that sheds bad. I till the needles into the garden to help keep the soil loose and it works wonders. In a raspberry bed they’d go a long ways in keeping weeds down if the blanket is heavy enough.

For annual weeds use Preen as it prevents seeds from germinating