Grow Raspberries In A Pot - Without Thorns!

By Phran Novelli

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Did you know you can grow raspberries in a pot? It's true.

I remember picking raspberries as a kid from a big brambly bush at my grandmother's house–not much fun. Battling mosquitos and thorns on hot summer days are what I recall most of all, because raspberry bushes naturally grow large and tangled and thorny.

But these days, there are dwarf cultivars without thorns! While these cultivars get only 2-to 3-feet high, they'll fill out even your largest planters over time, and if you put them in the ground, give them space to spread out.

Last year I got my raspberry-fanatic sister two of these 'Raspberry Shortcake' plants as a present, and she put them in matching pots on her patio, on either side of a doorway, at easy reach to gather ripe berries for cereal. This summer they had berries by June already! Although my sister keeps wondering why one bush has much fruit more than the other, and really, the only answer is that two of the 'same' plants can be just as different as two sisters.