{"id":8258,"date":"2010-08-06T01:36:52","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T08:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8258"},"modified":"2012-08-19T08:59:24","modified_gmt":"2012-08-19T15:59:24","slug":"growing-and-maintaining-raspberries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/vegetables-herbs\/growing-and-maintaining-raspberries\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing and Maintaining Raspberries for Big Crops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/005.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/005.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Raspberry Canes cut back\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/005.jpg 480w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/005-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The summer Raspberries are now finished and I am eagerly awaiting a crop from my Autumn Raspberries planted 2 season ago.<br \/>\nIn the meantime the old Raspberries are getting a bit of friendly treatment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cultivation of Early Raspberries.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The plants throw up canes 3-5 feet high from a stool at ground level.<\/li>\n<li>In Summer and Autumn new canes are produced that will carry the flowers and fruit next spring.<\/li>\n<li>Canes will only fruit once so old canes should be cut down at ground level after you have harvested the fruit<\/li>\n<li>I shred the old canes on to my compost heap.<\/li>\n<li>New canes need support. I string wire across the row from stout posts at each end.<\/li>\n<li>Raspberries are a <strong>hungry and thirsty<\/strong> fruit. <\/li>\n<li>Feed with general purpose granular fertiliser like Growmore in spring and mulch with well-rotted farmyard manure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Varieties and <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13913\">Species<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Grow Raspberries from bare-root plants in the autumn. You can buy several  red raspberry varieties mail order from  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?awinmid=2283&amp;awinaffid=81944&amp;clickref=&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thompson-morgan.com\/plants1\/search.html?section=all&amp;search=raspberry\"> Thompson &amp; Morgan<\/a>\t<\/li>\n<li>Glen Moy &#8211; spine free canes, heavy crops in early summer<\/li>\n<li>Glen Prosen &#8211; firm fruit in mid-summer<\/li>\n<li>Autumn fruiting types include All Gold and Autumn Bliss<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/009.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/009.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Wire Supporting Raspberries\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/009.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/009-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Tips for Growing  Raspberries for Big Crops<\/h3>\n<p>Plant raspberries in rows and trained along a post and wire system to make a hedge of canes.<br \/>\nAvoid a very windy site unless you can put up windbreaks to protect side branches and pollinating insects.<br \/>\nCanes get replaced each year, roots go on for a long time if maintained with water and feed.<br \/>\nMain-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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>See also <\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13913\">Coloured and species Raspberries<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/vegetables-herbs\/growing-and-maintaining-raspberries\/\">Growing and maintaining raspberries<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/vegetables-herbs\/raspberries-spring-summer-and-autumn\/\">Raspberries Spring Summer and Autumn<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grow  and maintain your Raspberries for big crops by cultivation techniques and careful variety selection<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,233],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vegetables-herbs","category-growing-easy-plants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}