Hi guys,
Another sunny day here in Bristol ;D Just been out and had a look around the garden. I have noticed that some of my raspberries have new growth but not off the canes, It's coming from under the soil? Also some of them have nothing and am now thinking i should have cut them all back? There about 1ft tall some have new growth at the top others don't and just look a bit well dead?
Any advice on how i should proceed? I have checked the planting instructions again and it told me to cut the blackberry canes back but not the raspberries?
Thanks i really would be struggling without this site ::)
Lucy
Need to know what you have. Autumn fruiting raspberries where the fruit grow on each years new growth or summer fruiting where the fruit grow on last years growth. So with autumn fruiting you cut back everything in late autumn/winter when they've finished but with summer fruiting you need to train new shoots and tie them in for the following year and only prune the old wood that has finished fruiting.
It's perfectly normal for autumn raspberries to expect new growth from below the soil. If on autumn raspberries you have the old wood putting on growth then I'd be tempted to cut it off because it will be unproductive (I think that's right but I'm not sure). With Summer raspberries you should have last years wood ready for fruiting and also this years growth (for next year) will come up from the ground.
In any case it sounds like you just need to wait and see. If some are dead, they're dead, nothing to do but plan to replant.
http://www.rhs.org.uk/growyourown/raspberry.asp (http://www.rhs.org.uk/growyourown/raspberry.asp)
cheers
Thanks ;D
There Autumn bliss and All gold thing is i cant remember which is which so will just have to wait and see what happens.
Still amazed that you can get yellow raspberries i cant wait to see the kids faces :o
Lucy
Quote from: mummybunny on March 22, 2009, 10:02:52
Still amazed that you can get yellow raspberries i cant wait to see the kids faces :o
Even more amazing is the deep lemon yellow colour you get when you make jam out of them.
I've got a load of autumn raspberries heeled in, they they've been looking totally dead. In the last week I've noticed shoots just starting to appear.
Quote from: Robert_Brenchley on March 22, 2009, 20:06:19
I've got a load of autumn raspberries heeled in, they they've been looking totally dead. In the last week I've noticed shoots just starting to appear.
I dug all my autumn raspberries up last year and got rid of them all... I've just noticed all new shoots starting to appear as well >:(
If I want to increase the Autumn Bliss I just let OH dig them out... she never gets them out and we have Rasps in the old and new place... :)
I cut all my autumn rasps down to about an inch, but my Mum (who is pretty knowledgeable) told me yesterday that I had cut off the bits that were going to sprout this year. It just looked like a bit of dead stick to me. Am still none the wiser, and have a very bare raspberry patch with no growth anywhere!
I doubt very much that they are "dead" have you had a look this last week Lewic? :-\