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The ideal time to plant raspberries is now

NOVEMBER the ideal month for planting raspberries, if you don’t count the cold, the wet, the wind and the hard slog.

Rasps are worth the bother, though: they are one of the fruits in which the difference in quality between home-grown and shop-bought is most striking.

It’s also one that gives heavy crops early on in its life, unlike some others which can take years to get going.

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