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Raspberry Problem.
David 46
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My Raspberry Canes are now 4 to 5 years old, & they have produced lots of fruit each year. However as I was cutting out all the old canes from this year I noticed all the leaves ( old & new ) have a rust like appearance on the underside. I also spotted this caterpillar ! would that have anything to do with it !! Any advice on what I should do would be appreciated.
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Old canes do get rust. It makes it obvious which to cut out. Caterpillar is just random. The thing that bothers them are raspberry beetle larvae that get in the fruit. You can get pheromone traps. Clean up any leaves that drop on the floor, and dispose of, (burn or put in council bin. Do not compost on site) In the Spring, give them a feed and a mulch. I have soaker hoses laid around my raspberries, they like more water than falls from the sky here.
I have comfrey growing cheek by jowl with my raspberries; both grew like mad this year and I had loads of lovely berries. But the comfrey was smothered in rust that looked just like this but a bit deeper orange. As the comfrey didn't seem bothered by it, neither was I, and I've put loads of it in the compost. I didn't see any rust on the raspberries. Now I've read this, I'm wondering if I should empty the compost bin and start again?
would to know what part of the country lives in.
i live in mid sussex and my rasperies have been covered in rust this year and i know someone in the west country who has had the same problem.
so is it just one of those years?
I'm on the Hampshire / Berkshire border, as you say sounds like one of those years.