A couple of weeks ago I got a team of our trainees (3rd sector charity getting people back in work ethic that I do books for, none of them with gardening experience or training), to dig out a raised bed that I had heeled in some tayberries, raspberries and logan berries a couple of years ago.
Prior to this, they'd been left to their own devices, and there was little fruit but plenty leaves. The boys just cut them all back to about a foot high so I'm not expecting fruit, but with lack of knowledge and supervision (I was in the office at the time) they've planted them along a fence, as I told them to, but too close together - about a foot apart. And of course without leaves I have no idea which is which.
So do I just leave them as they are and try to train them along the fence, or dig up and replant. I have a feeling I might lose them if I try to dig up again this year. I think I'm just sort of thinking out loud that I should leave them, see how they do, and spread them out at the end of the season. Or will they get too tangled up in the fence in one year?
Any thoughts?