Raspberries

debih · « **on:** August 16, 2008, 17:43 »

My new allotment has some raspberries on it. They are very overgrown (I dont think they have been touched for the last year or so) but are still producing fruit.

Please can someone tell me when I should cut them back, how I should cut them back and then what I should do with them.

I dont want to get rid of them as I know that my two little girls will enjoy picking them (and I am ait of a sucker for raspberries).

Trillium · « **Reply #1 on:** August 17, 2008, 02:52 »

it'll be important to know if they're everbearing (produce fruit all season with the maincrop in fall) or summer fruiting (July) to know how to prune. Fall fruiting ones can be cut back in winter and manured for next year's crop. Summer fruiting ones need their old brown canes cut out so that this year's new green ones can bear fruit next year.

Ask some of the nearby plotholders who have been there a while; they'll likely know what type you have.

debih · « **Reply #2 on:** August 17, 2008, 11:02 »

Thanks. We are hoping to start clearing the plot next week (weather permitting) so I will hopefully find someone to ask. We went up yesterday afternoon and I was quite surprised that there was no one around.

But there are lots of well tended plots so we must have just timed it wrong.

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Raspberries

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