When planting containers in cold areas you MUST make sure that the variety can handle 2 zones colder than the inground recommendation. So for example if you live in a zone six then your container plants MUST be okay down to a zone 4.

Your enthusiasm is adorable. And your teaching style is quite accessible.

Thank you for posting. I now see where I was going wrong with my potted Raspberries, I wasn't putting any ericaceous compost in with the soil.

I loved your advice and strawberries! I grew up with a strawberry patch and as an adult this is my first strawberry plant. I hope I do well.

Planted some blueberries and raspberries in 10 gal. pots and some in beds last spring . It will be interesting to see if the potted bushes survive the winter, it was -5 F (-20 C)where I live in Idaho this morning ! 🥶. The garden is under 24 inches (about 60 centimeters) of snow currently and we’re expecting more.

This could NOT have been timelier. I need to plant a black current and now I know to trim it back once in the ground. Thank you again, Ben. I can always rely upon you for outstanding information. DA

i absolutely love this guy

Your videos are absolutely amazing. You're instructive and informative but so approachable and kind! Thank you you have helped me greartly. I could imagine you with your own series on the BBC!

I have apples, morello cherries, rhubarb, blackcurrants and strawberries. My neighbour has black berries but I MUST do raspberries this coming year. I have bought them a number of times in 2022 from the supermarket. I’ve said it a long time and must do it. 👍 thanks for the reminder Ben.

Adding raspberries to my wish list :)

I 100% support eating fruit leather with hands dirty from gardening! That made me happy.

I have just discovered your channel, and I think it's great. I have recently inherited a garden from my grandparents, and there is a lot for me to learn. I'll be following your advice :-)

Wonderful! A couple of months ago I bought some patio bushes - blueberries, raspberries, a blackberry and also a plum and pear tree. I’ve also set up a small square bucket garden for salads and baby veg in a 1m square raised bed and planted another 1m square raised bed with strawberries. So excited for next year! Enjoy your helpful videos - liked and subscribed! 👍🏻😁

lol you are so much like us , eating your fruit leater with your garden hands , keep been real and loveing your content 🥦🥦🧄🧄🥒🥒🌶🌶🌶🌶🌶🌶

Thanks ❤ my son, will be very happy happy. To know how to plants those fruits, on pots Good luck 👍 🙏

Wish there was in person courses where I could learn this stuff and go through it in practice. There's so much to learn and it puts me off.

Happy Christmas and thanks for all of your inspiring posts x

Love your enthusiasm.

Good ideas in this video. Like the idea of filling a pot with what you want in it then turning it out into the wheel barrow for a good mixing. Going to try raspberry's here in 9b Sacramento. Good to do that during our mild winter. Thanks ben.

I never had any luck with blueberries here in Southern California. I will give it another try taking in your tips. 😊

I can only grow in containers and the plants love it 🌱

Today, I pruned my raspberries 🍓🍓🍓(no raspberrie emoji,sorry) down to an inch, BEFORE 😱 I found one of your old videos from 5 years ago 😭😭 Hopefully, they'll grow back in Spring 😍 After watching your video, I had to beat my chicks away from what I'd massacred & thrown onto the compost piles, gave them the kiss of life (the canes, not my chicks), re-potted them in discarded drain-pipes & said several fruity prayers 🙏 Thank you for sharing your incredible knowledge 🤗

Great advice Ben many thanks, I have ordered raspberries and a blueberry bush for my small garden in north Yorkshire looking forward to next years fruit 😁

Hi from the US. Thanks for the tips

Ben, I love your tip about dumping the pot to mix the soil and then put it back in without wasting any. You mentioned using a shorter variety of raspberry. Can you tell us the variety name? I live in zone 6 in the US so I will be planting the raspberries in the spring and I want to make sure I order an appropriate one.

This video has some good ideas! We've always had trouble growing blueberries. Maybe we will try a container variety and see how it work. Thanks for the great videos and gardening tips!

Great one, Ben! Loads of useful info for me as I continue to expand my container garden! I didn't know raspberries plants come in a smaller size.😃 I'm adding the strawberry patch and really would like to add currants.😃 Thanks!💕

Thank you so much! I am a beginner in gardening and your videos are helping me a lot !

Thank you for this! Just what I needed!

I love raspberries. The garden previous house owners sort of grew has a patch, but the summer weather since we moved in hasn’t been too nice to the berries. Maybe next year. I have a cunning plan, says Baldrick.

A nice idea I found for trellising was to use long rebar stakes at the corners, then frame with bamboo. It will hold a net perfectly, and it provides an easy method to train plants with intermediary trellising of more bamboo; those crazy cannabis growers know a thing or two about protecting their crops. Thank you.

wow love your plants I planted some fruit plants myself I am hoping I get fruit next year

Thank you Ben its amazing what you can grow in pots roll on spring

bless you. you are a rock star.

Thank you Ben for these potting tips for berries.....come at a good time as a few weeks ago I bought a black currant plant.....thank you for sharing.....😉 X

Thank you

Awesome! Lots of useful information only. Thank you

I'm growing blueberries! Lovely video thank you, I should be acidifying my blues more!

Thank you 😊

I've got plenty of blueberries, raspberries and blackberries, but I really want to give currants and lingonberries a try. Thanks for the tip on the azalea mix! I had no idea. Easy to get since azaleas are a staple in landscapes here in the southeast US.

Thank you, great idea. Love it.

Your right about the cost of raspberry’s in shops, daylight robbery 💰I’ve expanded my raspberry’s this year to include all gold for yellow berries for some variety The kids go through loads of them

Wonderful, thank you so much❤

I follow ( I am organic gardening) on youtube. His channel had a story of a farmer in Iowa that chose to not add fertilizer or pesticides to his corn crop. The farmer was told he needed to add this and that by a government guy that had tested his soil. At the end of the season, he had more bushel per acre than anyone around the county. He also had the county do some tests on how healthy the corn was. I don't remember if it was a sugar test or what but it was better than other crops in the area. That farmer went around the country sharing his information with other farmers about his results. Look up (I am organic gardening) on youtube. He has been doing it this way for many years. God Bless you and yours.

I love your enthusiasm and excellent info.

Got goji berries growing here in the UK, very easy to grow and pretty hardy

Superbe vidéo bravo 😉😉 A bientôt 🤗 🤗 🤗

Very beautiful your video

This man is too chaotic, mixing soil without rolling his sleeves. Respect.

I have always had a green thumb. But it never extended the fruit. I’ve had some luck with blackberries sound like with raspberries I especially like the yellow raspberries. I’ve had some luck with strawberries. I don’t know exactly what I’m doing wrong but none are really prolific like a lot of my friends the face. And I’ve been gardening for 50 years so I don’t know lol. I appreciate your videos so much. Thank you Ben may you and your family have a wonderful Christmas. God bless.

Ideal 🤗

You are great thanks a lot😊

Another amazing show Ben. I must say I’m glad you showed this as I have new raspberries cains to plant out and a cascading blackberry too. And I’ve just received my lemon, lime and orange trees, they only small atm but will need to find out how to take good care of them. I have their feed but where and when to put them, inside pop up greenhouse or outside!?!?!? So many things I don’t know. Lol If you can answer any please do as I would appreciate it.

thanks for the hard work liked and already subscribed 👍

How do you make the fruit leathers?? Just blend the fruit, spread very thin and dehydrate? How do you store them? Great video as always. Love this channel and the garden planner is the best!

Excellent Presentation lil bro!😍Thanks deeply for sharinG your LifegiVinG Skills for Humanity's Wellbeing especially durinG these turbulent times!👍I am goinG to try growinG some blueberries plantS on my balcony thiS summer and your absolutely Contagious energy has convincd me...that I can succeed!👍Shine On Sweet Soul and May Our Precious Creator of liFe bless you greatly for sharinG so many Vital tipS to help keep our Plant KidZ very healthy!✌😃🙏😇🌹🌞🌹🌾🌹🐶🐱🐶🌹☕🍵☕

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Here in the US currants remain illegal to grow in many states due to laws to prevent disease. You must check your specific state law and what cultivars may be legal to grow.

Beautiful and YUM YUM YUM!! How about strawberries? I planted three in a grow bag, and topped off with more soil killing two plants. I purchased two and replaced them, too late in the season for more berries, but am hoping for next year.

I can't get over how beautiful your yard is. What region do you live in to get this type of climate?

Problem with netting is the aesthetics, your grows go from beautiful to an eyesore.

The birds love my currants so much that I barely get any for myself.

Had no idea Stephen Merchant was such a knowledgeable horticulturalist

What do you do with the containers in winter? Can they be left outside? Would an unheated garage be okay to keep them til spring? What about watering them in an unheated garage?

This is an interesting video and you clearly know your stuff but, if you really want to help people grow their own and be sustainable take into account; You are British; densely populated island, most people only have windowsills or patios or small yards. No space to store that helpful wheelbarrow, no handy lawn mulch. If you can talk to these people and without using any jargon they may not be aware of - THAT would be a GREAT video!

Are you going to do another book? I found the one I purchased to be so informative and so readable. ❤️❤️👍👍🇨🇦👩‍🌾🪴. Happy holidays to you and your family.

Thanks you for your lovely videos. Would you be so kind to tell me the variety of your raspberries? They sound great. Schone Adventszeit from Berlin! 🎄

Snaffling? So that's what I've been doing! I also would love to know the variety of those smaller raspberry plants. Thanks! 8b Seattle

Thanks so much for the tips, I've just ordered two blueberry plants, one being the pink saphire. So excited to get going with them. I plan to do all my berries in containers down my plot. Quick question for you - you mention feeding these with fertilisers, tomatoes fertiliser for example or you also mentions organic fertiliser mulches that go over the top, would you mind explaining what these are and where you can get them? (Or make them!) Thanks again for your tips and your enthusiasm. It's infectious.

Some good tips Ben, thank you. What variety of Raspberry is the one suitable for pots please? I grow a variety of pink blueberry called Pink Lemonade as well as the blue varieties. They are a delicious sweet and slightly tart and a pretty pink colour. I also have a golden raspberry and it is tall but not too vigorous. It still has fruit on it now ... in December!! Its the crazy warm autumn we have had in the UK I think.

Love your videos. Any tips on growing indoors? CNY has very short growing season :(

The pruning is done so quickly while that is maybe the most important. Q: what is soilbased planting mix??? I live in Haarlem, North-Netherlands near the coast: what is my "zone" ?

Do not use plastic to wrap your plants over winter! It holds, creates and draws in moisture and cold and will then freeze, wrapping your pots and plants in iced up plastic wrap. Burlap or a frame is best imo.

Great video Could you plant gooseberry in pots as well

This was such a helpful video! We have a blueberry plant in a pot but it hasn't given us any fruit yet, and I need to repot a raspberry plant. Unfortunately I have not been able to find any ericaceous potting mix that doesn't contain peat! I've tried looking up hacks for it and the recommendation was to use half coco coir, which might be okay for the raspberry, but surely won't be acidic enough for the blueberry. Do you have any tips on DIY peat free ericaceous potting mix? I live in the Czech Republic and peat free mixes are hard to find... I'm building a wildlife- and eco-friendly garden so I want to avoid peat at all costs!

Can i ask you a [ 2?]question/ raspberries? With that pot: Will you need to transfert within 2 years each plant to one pot each? Why are they so near each other? How many can you expect per plant, with a dwarf variety and so little space to grow?

I have blueberries, raspberries and blackberries in half whiskey barrels.

I absolutely love the content you are creating. But If i may be so bold as to ask for a smal change or addition. When talking about plants, could you mention or show the latin name? When looking for the english names of fruit or vegetables they somtimes get lost in translation and i end up with totally different spiecies or variaties.

Great video. What about grapes?

I'd really appreciate more info on cutting out old raspberry canes.. I keep hearing this but don't understand it as each spring ALL stems seems to have something green shooting!

Sometimes I just want to sort the soil with my bare hands…gloves free! Like playing in the garden.

Instead of wrapping pots with bubble wrap, would it work to simply move the pots closer to the outside of a building for protection?

What variety of raspberry is that that grows up to 3 feet???? If anyone knows please let me know where can I get it? I’m in the US.

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Please could you show what brand etc you use as your compost quality looks amazing

Where I live I would neverr plant raspberries. I'm already weeding out endless amounts of the wild blackberries. My garden is literally surrounded by a blackberry hedge. With lots of evil thorns. Maybe in a raised bed though. Lol

To keep the birds and other animals away I was thinking of using a wire mesh. Would that keep pollinators out, or are they (pollinators) not needed.

During the coldest days would it be ok to move the plants indoors? Even in a low to no sunlight area?

I LOVE LoVE berries! Every time I’ve planted out blue berries they have died!

Thank you! But how about repotting the soils? How often?

Novice here! 😊 How do you know that the raspberries you get are the shorter growing ones and not the long ones?

Do I think bare root plants bought now will fruit in 2023? Great vid

Can you recommend the small variety of raspberry you planted, please?

Wouldn't you need to repot raspberries very fast? They will outgrow your small containers?

What variety of raspberry did you use? I'm hoping to do some in pots this year 😊

I’d really appreciate some help! I’ve tried to grow blueberries in pots twice. Both times they’ve eventually died on me and I don’t know what I’m doing wrong. I use ericaecious potting compost although I admit I haven’t always been able to water with rainwater as it’s not always been available. I WILL NOT GIVE UP but if you could help me stop murdering poor blueberry bushes it would help! 💖

When finishing up the Raspberry can I use pine straw?.

Thanks Ben! Love your video. Can berries grow in a hot climate? 28-30 C

I just bought raspberries in a container. I bought the variety for my zone (2). It gets cold here, as low as -30C during the winter. Should I bring the container in for the winter? If so do I still have to water or will the plant go dormant until Spring when I can take it outside again?

Would blackberries do as well as raspberries? Or are they totally different?