Comments on: Pruning my Autumn Raspberries

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 22:26:14 +0000

Having looked for advice on pruning autumn raspberries I seem to have missed the boat…or with the late spring am I too late to prune now? They do look like the picture..

By: glallotments

glallotments — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:53:47 +0000

Will be pruning mine this week – hope it doesn’t rain

By: allotment blogger

allotment blogger — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 18:29:48 +0000

Pruned mine today and feeling very smug about it. Although slightly less smug when I realised that I forgot to give them an ash feed last year …

By: Andrew Mooers

Andrew Mooers — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:26:39 +0000

Hey neat picture. No cellophane. I grew up on a Maine farm and after school and all summer working on the truck garden was the job. Learning about the public at nine years old selling vegetables. The lady in the Lincoln wanting the best 13 years of corn and ripping back each ear searching the entire 1000 ear pile even though we did not have worms and threw in an extra ear. And then the lady with the rusted Rambler who gave me a dollar tip and said any 13 will do just fine sweetie. Farming..dealing with the ups, downs, weather but being outdoors, self sufficient. Love it.

By: maureen

maureen — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:57:10 +0000

Thanks very much for the reminder. I didn’t know when to do mine (even though I have a pile of grow your own type books !!!!) I cut them down a bit in late autumn, but think I need to prune some more. How far down do you go ? have you got a photo of the pruned canes ?

maureen

By: Caz

Caz — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:56:44 +0000

As far as mulching is concerned…. I read somewhere (?) (and tried it last year,) that putting wood ash onto soft fruit, particularly raspberries would be a great benefit and I had a bumper crop in the summer so i guess it would be good for the autumn varieties aswell. A great use of ash if anyone has log fire over the winter. I will try it again this year too.

By: Jo

Jo — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:07:26 +0000

I must get round to doing mine too.

By: nic @ nip it in the bud

nic @ nip it in the bud — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:09:04 +0000

I swear by Feb pruning too and picked my final batch of autumn raspberries in the third week of November (still some new berries coming through but no sun to ripen them off)

By: Nathan (2af)

Nathan (2af) — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:32:36 +0000

I always prune in the fall after the leaves have turned. Once the leaves have turned all nutrients are back into the roots. Not that I think it makes any difference but this time of year is quite busy for me fall and early winter isn’t.

I don’t know what your spring weather is like but if it is the damp, rainy, and cool weather we get in the Midwest U.S. then mulching now would be risking harboring disease. Brambles are susceptible to root rot, raspberries in particular are quite at risk.

By: Anja

Anja — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:03:24 +0000

Gah! I pruned them in autumn – I though that was what I was supposed to do? Dear…