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Help! How do I prune Autumn Raspberries
How and when do I prune Autumn Raspberries? Do I cut back the same as the summer ones? Ann |
Help! How do I prune Autumn Raspberries
On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 08:51:14 +0000 (UTC), Ann Lancing
wrote: How and when do I prune Autumn Raspberries? Do I cut back the same as the summer ones? Ann Easy rule for all raspberries - cut the canes that have fruited (and only those) down to ground level as soon as they've finished. If you don't do it this way, make sure you cut autumn fruiters (only!) down to ground by the end of January. Cheers Jake ============================================== Gardening at the dry end (east) of Swansea Bay in between reading anything by JRR Tolkien. www.rivendell.org.uk |
Help! How do I prune Autumn Raspberries
Jake Nospam@invalid wrote in news:l33h67pr6cqot0u2rmjm8ih9h51pg0bf0i@
4ax.com: On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 08:51:14 +0000 (UTC), Ann Lancing wrote: How and when do I prune Autumn Raspberries? Do I cut back the same as the summer ones? Ann Easy rule for all raspberries - cut the canes that have fruited (and only those) down to ground level as soon as they've finished. If you don't do it this way, make sure you cut autumn fruiters (only!) down to ground by the end of January. Cheers Jake ============================================== Gardening at the dry end (east) of Swansea Bay in between reading anything by JRR Tolkien. www.rivendell.org.uk Nice and concise, I am understanding a bit now! Baz |
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If you use the description "cut down all fruited canes after fruiting", that does for both autumn and summer raspberries. However the reality of cutting the lot down (autumn), vs, leaving the new green canes (summer) is in practice different. |
Help! How do I prune Autumn Raspberries
In article , Nospam@invalid
says... On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 08:51:14 +0000 (UTC), Ann Lancing wrote: How and when do I prune Autumn Raspberries? Do I cut back the same as the summer ones? Ann Easy rule for all raspberries - cut the canes that have fruited (and only those) down to ground level as soon as they've finished. If you don't do it this way, make sure you cut autumn fruiters (only!) down to ground by the end of January. Cheers Jake Only problem with this is, that I've found the autumn fruiting ones can start putting out flowers again, so you can go on picking until the first frosts if you lucky. I usually leave the autumn fruiting canes until February, then cut then down, before the current years new shoots start to appear. -- Roger T 700 ft up in Mid-Wales |
Help! How do I prune Autumn Raspberries
On Fri, 9 Sep 2011 21:46:28 +0100, Roger Tonkin
wrote: In article , Nospam@invalid says... On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 08:51:14 +0000 (UTC), Ann Lancing wrote: How and when do I prune Autumn Raspberries? Do I cut back the same as the summer ones? Ann Easy rule for all raspberries - cut the canes that have fruited (and only those) down to ground level as soon as they've finished. If you don't do it this way, make sure you cut autumn fruiters (only!) down to ground by the end of January. Cheers Jake Only problem with this is, that I've found the autumn fruiting ones can start putting out flowers again, so you can go on picking until the first frosts if you lucky. I usually leave the autumn fruiting canes until February, then cut then down, before the current years new shoots start to appear. Fair point, Roger. I still have Tulameen (summer) fruiting. You could argue that autumn raspberries, if not cut down in January (OK Feb at your altitude), will fruit again around late April/May though you'll then end up with a maze of live and dead canes and I'm not convinced that the main autumn crop won't then suffer. It's down to experience perhaps - knowing when a cane has decided to give up. I err on the side of caution - lopping the canes off when I think they've had it but still feeding the soil to allow the roots to rebuild their reserves before their knobbly bits get frozen in the winter :) Cheers Jake ============================================== Gardening at the less wet end of Swansea Bay but moved on from Tolkien; now half way through the complete Harry Potter. www.rivendell.org.uk |
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