DIY Raspberry Cane Garden Edging
Use pruned raspberry canes to create attractive woven garden edging. This easy project is great for the vegetable garden or for decorative borders.
Servings 1 garden edging
Cost $0
Equipment
- pruners (secateurs) or a hacksaw
- hammer (optional)
Ingredients
- 1 pruned raspberry canes About 50-60 canes
- 10 bamboo stakes (18" long) Cut down from three long bamboo canes
Instructions
- If creating raspberry cane edging with a straight line, push a bamboo cane at either end of the area you wish your edging to be. Run a string from both, and use this guide to place your remaining bamboo canes. Push them into the ground about four inches (10 cm) deep. Canes should be spaced about 12-18" (30-45 cm) apart.
- Once the bamboo canes are in, begin weaving in the raspberry canes. Begin from one end and weave one cane in and around the bamboo stakes and push it all the way to the ground. Take a second cane and weave it along the same stakes but in the opposite direction — the video included in this piece shows the process.
- Once you have two canes woven in you move to the next section and weave canes in exactly the same manner in that space. All you’re doing is winding the canes in and out of the bamboo pegs and then making sure the cane that follows it is woven in the opposite way around. Simple.
- Once you’ve built up the edging to the desired height all you need to do is hammer in the bamboo pegs. More for aesthetic reasons than anything, you bang them in so that the tops are flush with each other and are just above the top of the raspberry canes.
