Controlling raspberries?

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I inherited a fruit garden with a handful of raspberry and blueberry plants. In the two years since we bought the house, I have pulled up dozens of raspberries. They are growing in like weeds and I am afraid that they will choke each other out. Does anybody have any advice to prevent them spreading so quickly?
 
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Raspberry roots spread in the top six inches of soil, so here's how to restrict them:
dig a very narrow slit trench all around the ground you've allowed for raspberries about a foot deep, and line that trench with a layer of impenetrable, non-bio-degradable material, like poly-carbonate, acrylic etc. and dig our the roots where they are not wanted.
 
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I wish I had some raspberry bushes in my yard. Do they grow well with blackberry bushes? I was thinking I could put some out in the Forrest line of my yard when we get a house along with blackberries so there would not be much work to do to keep them under control.
 
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Raspberries, or any berry for that matter, are not native in my country. So, I do wish that I have raspberries in my garden. However, I didn't know that they can grow so much. I do hope that you will be able to control them.
 
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I would imagine that they do grow well in my area because they are like blacberries. Blackberries grow like crazy where I live.
 
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I love my blackberries! I have a hard time pruning them back, but I do alittle. They are running along my fence.
 

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