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Old 24-04-2006, 03:24 PM
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I've no experience of Autumn fruiting raspberries, but Summer fruiting
are normally planted one year, then later that year they will send out
usually just one cane. That cane will fruit the next year and send out
(hopefully) several canes, which will fruit the following year, to be
enjoyed with cream.[/quote]

Autumn fruiting raspberries fruit on the current year's cane, so you just cut all the canes down to the ground after fruiting. Much less fuss, and as an added bonus the fruit have far fewer worms than summer raspberries, and an excellent flavour. Only problem is that you can't eat them with your strawberries.

With summer fruiting raspberries you have to selectively prune out the fruited canes, as they fruit on second year canes.