Glen Ample raspberries

Help! My raspberries canes didn't produce any flowers this year but lots of lovely new canes, should I leave them to flower next year? After they fruited last year I cut back the canes but maybe I did it too early because the produced new canes which produced flowers later in the season. Either they're confused or it's not Glen Ample!

I'm with JayG here, Audy.

You'll be fine next year, but it really is an odd season, because we now have some Glen Moy, which finished weeks ago, and now have some fruit still going, and they're supposed to be even earlier!

We found against all odds, (and a few old grumpy allotmenteers some years ago) that the autumn rasps are the best as they come at a time when other soft fruit like black currants etc are finished, and the apples are a few weeks off yet. The Joan J rasps are just motoring now, and so they should, but their season is much shorter and less prolific this year!

There's always next year!

Thanks all, fingers crossed for next year then

Thanks Salmo, will do. I guess I was just confused that I didn't get any fruit this year but I think I might have cut canes that hadn't fruited last year

Monty on gardeners world showed very clearly how to handle raspberries this week, very timely for you Audy if you are able to access BBC I player. Explained it really well & the difference in colour stems & why to do it now etc

Rasps have just motored this year! Our Joan J have nearly finished already, and last year they kept on growing so well.

The Glen Ample did their bit, but the crop wasn't that fantastic!

Funny old year for rasps, it'll be different next year!