Optimum air circulation and exposure to sunlight in the planting will help to guarantee robust growth and fine berries.Proper pruning of raspberries is essential. Pruning produces higher yields, helps control diseases, and facilitates harvesting and other maintenance chores. Pruning procedures are based on the growth and fruiting characteristics of the plants.
If the canes are crowded, thin out the weakest. Make the cuts right above a healthy looking bud below the dried portion.
If there remain any withered upper portions, where the late crop berries were last year, cut them away now. Once you get into the routine of cutting away the dried upper cane portions after the late crop and cutting down those same canes after they give the next year’s early crop, managing the planting is fairly simple.Ĭheck the canes. I don’t do that, because I prize the early summer berries and the late season crop often coincides with early autumn rains that turn the berries mouldy. New canes that grow in the spring will give only the one, late season crop. That eliminates the early summer berries. Then they are cut down at ground level, leaving new canes to grow and produce the late crop.Ĭommon advice, for simplicity, is to cut down all the everbearing canes at winter’s end. When that crop is over, those upper cane sections are cut away and the same canes are left to bear the following year’s early summer crop of berries. The late crop is borne along the tips of canes produced in the current year. “Everbearing” raspberries give an early summer crop and another in late summer to early autumn. Canes that have finished producing berries are cut down to allow the new canes that will bear the next year’s crop to develop well. The berries are borne on canes that developed in the previous year. “Summer bearing” raspberries have one harvest season, in July. The two available types of raspberries have different harvesting patterns. Last year, the raspberries in our newly acquired garden produced an early to midsummer crop of berries and then another one in late summer.
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