Raspberry Perspectives: A Study in Contrasts

This year we found a raspberry plant growing through the slats in our back deck. The main body of the plant is in a little plot of land surrounded by our deck on one side, on two sides by fences, and on the fourth side by a neighbor’s shed.

My reaction: the land is going out of its way to offer food to us.

My partner’s reaction: if we don’t remove that plant, it is going to eventually destroy the deck.

can you some how foster the plant so it doesn’t grow up through the deck?