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How to Prune Primocane-Fruiting Raspberries Pruning primocane-fruiting raspberries is simple if you only want a fall crop, says Pritts.
Lisa Slattery, Linn County Master Gardener, offers timely tips on pruning raspberries: This is the first in a series for pruning small fruits in the Iowa home garden. Today's blog will cover ...
Raspberry pruning is easy to confuse since the different types require different kinds of pruning.
A bit of summer pruning goes a long way to keeping your raspberries healthy and productive. So, get out the mosquito netting, long sleeves and pruners and get busy.
Pruning: Canes are bi-ennial (meaning they grow one season, fruit the next, then die). In the spring, red Raspberry canes which grew the previous season are pruned back 1/4 of their length.
Raspberry pruning varies by type. For the more common June-bearing red raspberries, March is a good time to clean up the plants and get them ready to produce.
Rambling roses and shrubs like gallicas, ‘English’ roses, albas or Hybrid Perpetuals can all benefit from a simple prune in September. On his gardening blog, Monty Don explains: "A simple shear in ...
Routine raspberry maintenance includes annual spring fertilization, trellising summer-bearing raspberries (usually not needed for fall-bearing varieties), pruning, and winter protection.