I have a over abundance of golden raspberries in a location that I want to cover with concrete for shop floor
These are self volunteers, in that I have owned this property for over 40 yrs, I did not plant them, nor did my wife... There was an apple tree in this area, but it died and i cleaned up the trash, mowed the area and forgot the area... I put in a 40 ft steel storage unit, and over time had to add another building, spaced 12' away.... BETWEEN the two buildings is now full of green raspberry canes... The open area is sited north/south, with wind protection east/west
My question is, how can I move the existing canes, and the blooming / bearing canes are pretty, and tasty.... so I want to save... I also have two patches of "thornless blackberries" on the property, and they are about 100 ft away... These patches are several years old, both about 30' -to- 50' in diameter... They self water, rain mostly, with some irrigation thru landscape of yard when it rains ... As a side note, my wife and I do not believe in poisons / pesticides near our food we grow, nor do we use commercial fertilizer ... our go to is chips, leaves, manure, homemade compost with kitchen scraps, leaves, manure & chips ...
My location is Winston-Salem, NC
Can I just dig them up with a ball of earth, and transplant to new location