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 and Species

• Grow Raspberries from bare-root plants in the autumn. You can buy several red raspberry varieties mail order 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

Tips for Growing Raspberries for Big Crops

Plant raspberries in rows and trained along a post and wire system to make a hedge of canes.
Avoid a very windy site unless you can put up windbreaks to protect side branches and pollinating insects.
Canes get replaced each year, roots go on for a long time if maintained with water and feed.
Main-crop raspberries fruit on 1-year-old canes that are then cut down to ground level. Then tie in new growth to the support wires and mulch well.

See also
Coloured and species Raspberries
Growing and maintaining raspberries
Raspberries Spring Summer and Autumn