Here in Madison, Wisconsin, our raspberries are beginning to leaf out. This is despite a cool and overcast spring. My experience has been that raspberries are pretty hardy with regard to frost, they will withstand a light frost with little or no damage. Two days of freezing weather would be something else-I would not expect the raspberry leaves to survive. You might be able to cover your raspberry transplants with a 5 gallon plastic bucket, in the event of a hard frost. That would likely give good protection, even if you had to prune back the canes a bit to make the bucket fit.

Thanks for the response.

You arent TOO far from me ( 10 hour drive mabey, or less). The rasp. cant be to far. We got lots fo rain the other day and 3 days of nice warm sunny days. Im hopin tomorrow to see if the buds burst on the bushes close to me. IF they did, its fair game i think!

I'd plant and be prepared to cover them if it freezes until other raspberries nearby have put out their leaves. If the plants nearby have leaves, then go for planting and don't worry about it. Since they have been inside, you might want to put them outside for a few days to acclimate to the cooler temperatures, and give them partial day sun so they won't get fried when you do put them in the ground.

Thanks beeone.

Thats good advice. I know they need to be planted fairly early in the year, even when leafed out.

Im definetly going to let it acclimitize. The basement is pretty cool, and it does get decent sunlight. Hopefully its half acclimatized now!