The summer Raspberries are now finished and I am eagerly awaiting a crop from my Autumn Raspberries planted 2 season ago.
In the meantime the old Raspberries are getting a bit of friendly treatment.
Cultivation of Early Raspberries.
- The plants throw up canes 3-5 feet high from a stool at ground level.
- In Summer and Autumn new canes are produced that will carry the flowers and fruit next spring.
- Canes will only fruit once so old canes should be cut down at ground level after you have harvested the fruit
- I shred the old canes on to my compost heap.
- New canes need support. I string wire across the row from stout posts at each end.
- Raspberries are a hungry and thirsty fruit.
- Feed with general purpose granular fertiliser like Growmore in spring and mulch with well-rotted farmyard manure.
Varieties
- Grow Raspberries from bare-root plants in the autumn. Here are some of the varieties available from Thompson Morgan.
- Glen Moy – spine free canes, heavy crops in early summer
- Glen Prosen – firm fruit in mid-summer
- Autumn fruiting types include All Gold and Autumn Bliss
- Read also Spring Summer and Autumn on Gardeners Tips.
