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Post by BartyB on Oct 24, 2010 10:00:46 GMT 1
What should I be doing with the rasberry plants? should they be split? or cuttings taken?
I'm pretty sure that I should be doing something but I've no idea what or when
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Post by Elkay on Oct 24, 2010 10:55:02 GMT 1
Help, someone! Ali has great faith in my gardening knowledge, but am just an enthusiastic amateur.....and my raspberry canes are currently lost in the weeds behind the barn. When I find them again I will need to do something with them!
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Post by Ali on Oct 24, 2010 21:40:20 GMT 1
Over here I just clip off this years fruited canes at base and any dead/thin/weak ones leaving this years new canes 'as is' - they'll be your fruit bearing ones next season.
If you want to grow a larger patch of raspberries just dig up a few roots, split and space out and they'll take off with no help.
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Post by ianh on Oct 25, 2010 7:54:11 GMT 1
What Ali says is correct - unless you have Autumn fruiting ones - in which case do this next spring. A good mulch of rotted manure is always appreciated too.
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Post by Madame Moorhen on Oct 25, 2010 9:29:31 GMT 1
What Ali says is correct for the summer ones, for autumn ones you chop the whole lot back in late winter/early spring. However my summer ones are extremely confused cos all but two of the canes for NEXT year are producing fruit   - very nice as the autumn ones are practically finished but I wonder what on earth I'll get, if anything, next summer? Hmmmm.  |
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Post by BartyB on Oct 25, 2010 16:26:35 GMT 1
Oh gawd....... I've had 2 lots of fruit of everything this years as far as I can see
So basically the idea is cut out and bin everything that's had fruit on it?
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Post by Ali on Oct 25, 2010 17:08:51 GMT 1
yus
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Post by Madame Moorhen on Oct 26, 2010 6:53:27 GMT 1
Do you know which ones are the summer ones and which are the autumn ones? Are they labelled? Leave the autumn ones as they are for now, and the summer ones you take out the canes that have already fruited. They will be brown and dead looking so easy to spot.
Theoretically you are supposed to tie in the canes for next year to your wire framework but I never get around to that!
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Post by BartyB on Oct 26, 2010 7:51:19 GMT 1
Thank you Madame M Do you know which ones are the summer ones and which are the autumn ones? No No Theoretically you are supposed to tie in the canes for next year to your wire framework Don't have on or those....... Should I?? |
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Post by Madame Moorhen on Oct 26, 2010 8:28:21 GMT 1
;D Well it kind of helps, to stop them flapping about in the wind and so that you can hold the canes apart to make harvesting easier..... if you just have a wild patch of raspbs then I guess that's OK too... they really don't grow like they show them in the book anyway, in a nice neat little row where you tie each little cane individually to a wire.  As for the summer and autumn ones, I guess if you don't know which is which then just cut out any dead looking brown canes, then in the spring just thin them out. The autumn ones produce twice if you don't cut them back in spring. Complicated business is raspberries.  |
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- very nice as the autumn ones are practically finished but I wonder what on earth I'll get, if anything, next summer? Hmmmm. 
