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Raspberries
Billyjo
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in Fruit & veg
Morning all, my friend and I have just acquired an allotment plot and inherited some raspberry canes with it , I know About veg but not soft fruit , helpful advice please on pruning etc , the canes are currently 3 ft , some foliage but no idea what variety!
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Good morning Jo
At a guess, if the canes are about 3ft, then they're probably autumn fruiting ones which will fruit on the canes that are growing at the moment - nothing to do except give them some sort of structure to stop them flopping all over the place, a sprinkling of Fish, Blood and Bone, a mulch with manure or compost and ensure that they don't dry out.
Next Jan/Feb cut all canes down to ground level.
Enjoy
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
My summer canes are about 3 foot high at the moment, while my autumn ones are still tiny ( because I cut them back in the winter). But if the canes haven't been attended to, it's anybody's guess what type they are at this stage. If any of the canes look like old ones that fruited last year, cut them out now (this applies to both summer- and autumn-fruiting types).
But you'll probably just have to wait and see when/if they produce fruit, and then you'll know how to treat them from then on.
Thank you
I will take photo and post
Dovefromabove, you were right , just bumped into previous plot owner and they are Autumn ones but she had not cut them down, I shall just take your advice from previous post
Hi check this video out just copy the address and paste into your address bar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY3URQkOlMg
Thanks Chris , video really useful ,