Sounds like you got a plan hopefully it works out better next go around.
Honestly raspberries are a pain in the ass IMO. We have a
Fall Gold raspberry that is a three years old now and it's non stop maintenance. If I'm not pruning out the infected canes to prevent fungal infections then I'm spraying it to keep the whitefly and leaf miners at bay.
Constant upkeep on the stupid thing.....we have all kinds of different fruits(apples, pears, cherries, grapes, blackberries, ect) and by far the raspberry requires the most work.
Once I get to that stage my wife & I are a good team. She is great about trimming stuff particularly seasonal or annual trimming. She keeps schedules really well. She is good at inspecting for bugs or odd stuff, she is great at weeding.
Stuff I am good at is figuring out where to put stuff, size and volume for spacing. I am good at watering the vegetable garden and adding various fertilizer or pest protection(s).
She like handling the dirt
I like using the chemicals *we are mostly organic I use the chemical term broadly to encompass anything that gets applied*
Our typical plant chemicals are:
Miracle grow, watering can kind stuff just
works
Preen for weed prevention around the flowers not the vegetables
Bug/pest prevention:
A spray that is mostly hot pepper based with some sort of oil in it. Sticks to the plants and kills vast majority of any bug problem
Another spray that is something like citrus (I think) works like the other but it is more rapid
Soil is usually amended with manure or compost
Occasionally I’ll remove old soil spread it on the grass and add new organic soil.
Long story but as I said we are mostly organic.