"Dee" wrote in message ...
Do you think it is OK to plant blackberries where we have had raspberries
growing the last 6-7 years?

The raspberries have probably reached there natural life span, we have had
gradually decreasing crops and this year the plants are looking decidedly
unhealthy. Malling jewel I think is the variety and we have fed and mulched
etc every year.

I will dig up and burn the roots of the raspberries and fill the trenches
with compost before planting a thornless blackberry of some kind in the
Autumn.

I reckon brambles are tough enough to do ok like that. It's against
the usual rules, of course! My mother even planted raspberries on the
same site in Devon for twenty years. (I can't tell you which varieties
she had, I'm afraid.) Might be an idea to plant two or three bramble
varieties and see if one does better.

Mike.