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season to produce two crops in the one
season. Many find it easier, however, to enjoy
the autumn crop and cut down the entire
plant after harvest every year. Growing both
summer- and autumn-fruiting raspberries can
yield fruit for up to six months.
can be pruned to produce two crops per year.
However, most growers cut down their
autumn fruiting raspberries completely
straight after harvest. It is up to the pruner's
preference.
This process is best explained visually
(see Figure 11.2 for summer-fruiting
raspberries and Figure 11.3 for the
autumn cultivars).
Maintenance
How you maintain the fruiting wood on
raspberries depends on whether you are
growing summer-fruiting or autumn-fruiting
cultivars. Summer raspberries have one
generous crop per year. Autumn raspberries
There are some general simple rules to follow.
Remove any cane that has fruited from its tip
and its stem. Thin the new growth,
primocanes, selecting the strongest and
2 The new growth,
primocanes, are
trained to the
trellis
3 In autumn of that
season the canes
fruit profusely at
their tips. They can
be cut down after
harvest
1 The established
plant has been cut
down completely
in autumn
4 Tip prune the canes
for a crop on the
stems of last year's
canes. The new
growth can be
trained up and fruit
as in number 3
5 In autumn cut down
all canes and repeat
the process
Figure 11.3
Autumn-fruiting raspberries.
