Oh yes. I forgot. We drilled holes in ours also. And those little buggers would find a way to escape from them for sure. I am not sure if even landscape cloth would contain them. Perhaps a very fine wire mesh on top of the cloth??

Too late now, because I'm not taking them out of the buckets. I doubled the cloth, so I'm hoping that it works. If that doesn't stop the roots, I don't know what will. The smallest wire mesh I could find would have done no good. But, maybe they make finer mesh. I just can't find anything finer where I live, unless I use window screen. I can't see that stopping them since the window screen isn't very strong. I moved them a long ways away from the daylilies, so if they escape, it will be much easier to deal with it. I also need to bury the buckets at some point, but haven't decided where I'll leave them at. I probably need larger buckets as well. But for now, I'm happy.

Maybe putting the pots on top of cement blocks would help.

That is an excellent idea.

Good idea Pril but expect to do some extensive watering if you put them on cement. you can use root pruning grow bags and burry them to control the plant's roots but if not staked or trellised they will root from the tips of the branch as they touch the ground and escape into your garden. Brambles are a lot like goats they are master escape artist, but look on the bright side, at least yours are thornless.

@Natalie,

I’m having the exact opposite experience with raspberries as you—I can’t get them to grow enough!

Like you I love raspberries but this is year 3 for mine and they are just sad. The ground is just too heavy and they really aren't expanding much at all. I get a few berries but not nearly as much as I should.

Ironically the same solution may work for both of us: buckets! I can put soil that they’ll like in the buckets and sounds like they’ll be happy. I’m not sure about any long-term issues that could come up, but it’s worth a try because I am determined to have raspberries!

A side bonus is I can move them somewhere else. Right now they are in real estate that I could be using for daylilies. Precious, precious real estate…

Dennis, give it a try! So far so good with mine in the buckets! I know that this isn't going to be their permanent residence, but it is working great for now. None of them have bloomed this year, but I wasn't expecting them to after being yanked out of the ground and scolded. I know nothing about growing them, so I just hope they survive until I can get a better spot to put them in the ground. At least for now, I've got more daylily room!

I researched them quite a bit a few years ago when I first planted them, but of course forgot most of it (getting old I guess).
I seem to remember that having 2 different varieties next to each other can result in the best production. I distinctly remember buying several different kinds, including some black raspberries (thought I'd try it). Never got any black ones, only red. Hmmmm...
Also seem to remember that they only produce on new growth, so on established plants, at the end of the year, you should cut down to the ground most of the branches that just produced. That's all I got right now...

I've been so confused on the pruning. Some are ever-bearing, which means they produce berries twice, and some only bear once a year. Something like that anyway, and if I remember right, you prune them a little differently. Not knowing which kind I have didn't help matters at all. I just noticed about 20 minutes ago that some raspberries are growing right in the middle of the blackberries, which wasn't supposed to happen, but I'm happy that I'll get some fresh raspberries before too long! Not sure how I'd ever get them out of the middle of the blackberries, but I'll try this fall. Thankfully the blackberries are thornless too, so I won't look like I met up with an army of angry attack cats.