There are 2 posters on this thread, @Lyn, which makes things confusing. @vgoomany is the OP who has raspberries she hasn't pruned back; then there was @amrees21rUYkznol who followed Christine Walkden's advice to cut down both sorts in February and has seen no growth yet. (Thanks for the clarification about the Gardeners' Question Time episode, @amrees21rUYkznol. I listened to it with amazement...) I wish the other panel members had asked CW if she got any fruit from her summer fruiting rasps using her pruning regime. I suspect not! Seems very odd advice, since the summer fruiters most definitely grow shoots one year which produce the fruit the next year, whereas the autumn fruiters most definitely produce fruit on the new canes which have grown that year. I say "most definitely" because I've grown both sorts.
I know CW is a respected horticulturist but I still don't think she's right!
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Ah right, I didn’t even notice there were two different posters.
Agree about CW, I think she’s wrong too. She does sometimes get a bit too over enthusiastic, I remember a series of programmes where she visited different gardens, I didn’t watch the last ones in the series.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
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They will be good next year though.
I know CW is a respected horticulturist but I still don't think she's right!