Well I bought two of those £1.79 boxes of fruit starts from a food store, should have been black and red current. Black current yes, but weedy( must move it to a better position to give it a second chance before hubby axes it) Red no. That's how I ended up with summer fruiting raspberry, goodness knows what variety it is but they are big.
I must have inherited these raspberries somehow unless I planted one a very long time ago so I don’t know the variety. It looks like there are mid season varieties as well as autumn one which are described as fruiting from July to August. While other autumn ones don’t fruit until late august.
As I understand it, the rule is cut off at/near the ground canes that have finished fruiting, and leave canes that haven't fruited yet. For autumn-fruiting varieties I'm not convinced that it makes a lot of difference whether you prune them in late autumn after they've finished fruiting, or the following spring.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
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