Raspberries can be used in a variety of appealing and delicious ways. ), By clicking 'Add Comment' you agree to our Terms and Conditions, "so where are the actual instructions on HOW to prune raspberries? ", "Barbara Pleasant: You probably shouldn't pull any raspberry canes or suckers. Tender, juicy, dark red berries are delicious frozen, canned and fresh. Cut them to the ground in winter, and they bear on new growth the next year. You can wait until the dead branches turn brown to trim them off. I apologize for being so dense. Ideally, you want the berries to ripen while the weather is still warm, because warm sunshine makes raspberries taste better, but you don’t want them coming in so early that the fruit gets scalded by summer sun. I also plan to have blackberries. If you run out of rain water, use tap water to prevent drying out of the compost. On chalky and strongly alkaline soils raspberries are prone to iron deficiency, displaying interveinal chlorosis (yellowing between the leaf veins) or more uniform yellowing of the foliage starting at the growing tips. All of this raspberry pruning can net you a garden crop I’ve failed to cover in previous writings, which is raspberry leaf tea. Raspberry leaves contain more tannins than other common tea herbs, so they add body to herb teas made of mixed, dried herbs from the garden. Any advice on these items, as to types and when to plant in my 8A zone, etc., is greatly appreciated. I read this page on pruning, but as a first "raspberrier", I am reluctant to say " I know what I am doing." Since raspberries grow only foliage the first season (year) and flowers and fruit the next (second year), removing dead canes can make it easier to obtain a maximum yield and berry size. 020 3176 5800 My raspberry pruning was doing more harm than good and I was having no fun at all, so I changed my ways and started waiting until winter to lop out the old canes, which had gone gray with age so they were easy to spot. how do i make yields bigger? The fruit can also be used to make delicious jams, jellies, pies and other desserts. I'll add those items to my to do list. Years later, there is quite a bit of advice I’d like to take back, for example this old song on pruning raspberries: "Remove old canes after they have fruited by cutting them off at the soil line.". I trim in the fall (October) to about a foot above grown. You'll still have enough fruit to freeze for later use. Pruning. Red and yellow varieties produce new, green canes called Primocanes every year. You can also divide large clumps. What should I do, I have many plants and I get a lot of suckers, that I pull. Understand the two basic types of raspberries. Like most garden writers, early on in my career I often repeated advice given by experienced experts on topics I didn’t know much about myself. Raspberries can also suffer from magnesium deficiency, showing interveinal chlorosis of the foliage, sometimes with reddish brown tints starting at the older foliage. "black cap" raspberry sounds like it may prove to be more trouble than I need, this first year of building what I plan to be a large, varied, garden, with fruit trees. I live in the bay area of calif. Just remember that pruning raspberries is vital for ensuring bountiful future harvests. Lift healthy suckers that appear between the rows and plant them as above. Different training techniques mean raspberries can be grown in gardens of any size and in containers. 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