What I would do is wait until they have finished fruiting, then cut them to the ground. Mulch well with some compost or well rotted farm yard manure to help keep down the weeds. Feed with blood fish and bone next March, a sprinkling around each plant. You should then get new shoots which flower in the summer and fruit next autumn. They take a year or two to settle down, yours didn't get the best start, but they are alive and growing, so should improve next year.
Ok great, thank you! Appreciate it. Half the canes I bought and put in this year just shooted off the old cane, and that growth withered and died. Like the second pic above. Do you think those ones have a chance too?
Agree with fidgetbones. Some of them may have died though - I have a success rate of about 75% when planting bare-root raspberries, regardless of type. When planted in rows, nearby plants always send enough runners to colonise the gaps (and usually lots of other places where they are not wanted, too!) It may take a couple of years before they become fully 'rampant'.
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A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
Brilliant. Ok I shall just cut the canes back in Feb and will hope for the best!
They definitely don't seem to get on with the particularly heavy clay this garden has - I'm still getting to grips with it! - but i've been putting soil soil conditioner etc down and hopefully as you say they'll "fill in".
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What I would do is wait until they have finished fruiting, then cut them to the ground. Mulch well with some compost or well rotted farm yard manure to help keep down the weeds. Feed with blood fish and bone next March, a sprinkling around each plant. You should then get new shoots which flower in the summer and fruit next autumn. They take a year or two to settle down, yours didn't get the best start, but they are alive and growing, so should improve next year.
Ok great, thank you! Appreciate it. Half the canes I bought and put in this year just shooted off the old cane, and that growth withered and died. Like the second pic above. Do you think those ones have a chance too?
Agree with fidgetbones. Some of them may have died though - I have a success rate of about 75% when planting bare-root raspberries, regardless of type. When planted in rows, nearby plants always send enough runners to colonise the gaps (and usually lots of other places where they are not wanted, too!) It may take a couple of years before they become fully 'rampant'.
Last edited: 11 September 2016 13:55:08
Brilliant. Ok I shall just cut the canes back in Feb and will hope for the best!
They definitely don't seem to get on with the particularly heavy clay this garden has - I'm still getting to grips with it! - but i've been putting soil soil conditioner etc down and hopefully as you say they'll "fill in".