raspberry's - when to net?

[tartonterro]

this is my 1st year growing raspberries - they are autmn rasps and are starting to but up with flowers - should i put the netting over them now - or wait till the flowers start to set?
the netting i have is 13mm plastic netting - will the polinators get through to the flowers if i put it on now? ???

[tartonterro]

[Dadnlad]

In our experience, skyrats tend not to go for autumn rasps very much (compared to summer rasps/tayberries/boysenberries  etc) - so we've never needed to net ours 8) touch wood :P

[KathrynH]

I wouldn't bother netting at all. Autumn raspberries produce such a prolific crop that you can probably afford to let the birds have a few.

[grotbag]

yep i agree kathryn ,have never netted my rasps ,plenty for all of us .

[mark45]

yeah here to we had loads of rasberrys in fact we through a lot away

[realfood]

I always net Autumn rasps or there would be nothing left by the birds. Maybe ours are particularly aggressive.

[caroline7758]

i've found that the fruit tends to be hidden under the leaves, which is a pain when you are picking but also seems to stop the birds getting them.

[davholla]

I have problems with summer raspberries but no with autumn

[GrannieAnnie]

The deer I tried to fence out have nipped off some of our autumns already- guess I should have netted last week ::)