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Last night we had our first meeting of the year on the Community Garden that we are looking after, and we noticed that some of the raspberry canes have now reached over 10' in length.
I say long rather than tall as they are mostly sprawled everywhere.
Anyway, my question is - should we do any pruning on these now, or should we wait until they have fruited first?
When we took the garden on last summer every bed had been chopped down in the spring by contractors, and although the raspberries grew well and had loads of foliage we didnt get a single flower or piece of fruit from them all year, so we don't even know if they are summer or autumn fruiters.
I thought that the lack of fruit may have been because they had been cut back at the wrong time, and so we have decided to wait to see if anything happens this season - or should we give them a trim?
I know very little about soft fruits so any advice is welcome
Andy
Last night we had our first meeting of the year on the Community Garden that we are looking after, and we noticed that some of the raspberry canes have now reached over 10' in length.
I say long rather than tall as they are mostly sprawled everywhere.
Anyway, my question is - should we do any pruning on these now, or should we wait until they have fruited first?
When we took the garden on last summer every bed had been chopped down in the spring by contractors, and although the raspberries grew well and had loads of foliage we didnt get a single flower or piece of fruit from them all year, so we don't even know if they are summer or autumn fruiters.
I thought that the lack of fruit may have been because they had been cut back at the wrong time, and so we have decided to wait to see if anything happens this season - or should we give them a trim?
I know very little about soft fruits so any advice is welcome
Andy
) then either leave them be for this year, or cut them off at a reasonable picking height - say 6' tall
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