I planted summer fruiting raspberries for the first time at the turn of the year. Roughly how high should they be now? There does not appear to be a lot of growth.
They fruit in summer on the growth they made the same year, so you cut them down in spring. Let them do their thing now.
Nope, that's Autumn fruiting types. Summer fruiting ones bear fruit on the canes which grew the previous year, so as soon as a cane has fruited, cut it down the the ground but leave the unfuited canes as those will bear next year's crop.
A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
Oh god I am awffffuuuull sorry I mixed it up again!!!!
Please do forgive me. Where I live, our summer fruiting rasperries fruit in late spring (with me) and autumn fruiting fruit in summer (again, in my warm, south facing garden), and I always strive to remember, UK, everything is a month later, but I get them mixed up all the time.
I really do apologize, it's complicated enough without me messing things up further. Just ignore me. I will just shut up now.
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Yes, they won't do much the first year... they will do reasonably well the second year.... Then all of a sudden it will be a raspberry forest.
My thanks to everybody. It seems they take a couple of years before they get going.
Am I right in thinking I should leave this year's growth unpruned? There are signs of fruit on a couple of them.
They fruit in summer on the growth they made the same year, so you cut them down in spring. Let them do their thing now.
Nope, that's Autumn fruiting types. Summer fruiting ones bear fruit on the canes which grew the previous year, so as soon as a cane has fruited, cut it down the the ground but leave the unfuited canes as those will bear next year's crop.
Oh god I am awffffuuuull sorry I mixed it up again!!!!
Please do forgive me. Where I live, our summer fruiting rasperries fruit in late spring (with me) and autumn fruiting fruit in summer (again, in my warm, south facing garden), and I always strive to remember, UK, everything is a month later, but I get them mixed up all the time.
I really do apologize, it's complicated enough without me messing things up further. Just ignore me. I will just shut up now.