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Hi,
Do Autumn raspberries carry their fruit in a different way to summer fruiting ones?
Before we took our plot over in March it had regularly been strimmed to the ground, so when the raspberries started coming up, I thought they would fruit next year. Now some of them are bearing fruit in bunches right at the top of the canes. The fruit looks a bit small. Do you think they are Autumn raspberries - or just deformed summer ones (so sick of being strimmed that they attempt to fruit on one year canes?).

Sarah.

They sound exactly like my Autumn Bliss! If they are they are delicious ;D Mine are no where near ready to pick yet!  DP

That's exciting...
And if they are autumn fruiting, do i chop them down again when they have finished fruiting?

Sarah.

Sarah,they get cut down in my garden in the late winter or early spring, leaving about 6inches. A warning though, raspberries love to send out suckers, and they appear all over the place! DP