Fall care of Raspberries
Raspberries are a great addition to your snacking garden. They are relatively carefree with only needing some pruning once or twice a year
-Patricia Hanbidge
September 15, 2024
Most of the raspberries we grow are floricane varieties. What this means is the flower and fruit on two-year old wood. The first year, floricane raspberries only have vegetative growth and in the second year they will fruit. Primocane raspberries flower and fruit on the current year's wood or essentially every year. As we move truly into fall, it is a great time to get out to the garden and prune your raspberries. It will get you out in the sun and enjoying the crispness to the air.
Raspberries have a very long-lived root system. Therefore, with whatever type of raspberry you are growing, a vigorous pruning once a year will suffice. Primocane raspberries can be pruned right back to the ground in the autumn when fruiting is finished. For floricane raspberries, in spring canes will emerge and grow throughout the summer producing only leaves. The following growing season, the canes will branch out and produce flowers and then fruit. Following fruiting those two-year old canes will die off.
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