How to Build Raspberry Arbors

Growing raspberries in the home garden provides you with fresh-picked, sweet, juicy treats the second season after planting. The raspberry plant’s roots and crown are perennial, but the canes produced exist two years. They grow the first year, produce fruit during the second, and then die. These older canes are replaced each year with new canes. Choose raspberry varieties suited for your area and install raspberry trellises, such as the T trellis, to support the plants.

Pole digger
6-foot posts
3 1/2-foot cross-arms
Nails
Hammer
Measuring tape
Stakes
Rope
Heavy-gauge wire

Instructions

- 1
  Use a pole digger to make holes 24 inches deep for each post. Space the posts 20 to 30 feet apart along the row or at the end of each row.
- 2
  Drive stakes into the ground beyond the end of each row to anchor the end posts. Tie rope to the stakes and then attach the rope to the post.
- 3
  Nail a cross-arm onto each post at a height of about 3 1/2 feet. Attach heavy duty wire to one side of the cross-arm.
- 4
  Run the wire down the row and then attach it to the cross-arm on the post at the other end of the row. Repeat this to run a second wire from the other side of the cross-arm.

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