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Re: Raspberries

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I think the answer to your question is that it depends on what type they 
are.  

If they are June bearers, that means the berries grow on second year 
canes.  What you should do is (1) on those canes which have already born 
fruit, cut them out of your berry patch.  You can't miss them.  By late 
winter, early spring, they look like very dead, dry canes.  Next seasons 
fruit will grow on the canes that came up this past summer.  My 
experience is that you will usually be better off if you prune those 
canes when they are about four feet tall (usually sometime in July here 
in zone 5.  That encourages the canes to develop side shoots, ergo more 
berries the next year.  It is probably too late to do much about those 
canes that grew this year.  

If you have ever bearers, you get a small crop in the summer and another 
crop in the fall, (What actually happens is on the first year cane, you 
get a fall crop;  you also get a small crop the next summer on the 
second year of that cane, then it dies)  You should not prune this type.  
When I grew raspberries, I never bothered with the summer crop on this 
type which I thought was inferior in any case.  Every fall, I mowed the 
canes to the ground (only do this for the ever bearers.  If you mow your 
June bearers, you will never get a raspberry).  It seemed to help keep 
out virus diseases.  Also made it a lot easier to manage the berry patch 
which had the most distressing habit of taking over everything. 

Bill McKay, zone 5 (usually), Eastern Massachusetts 


>What variety are your rasperries?  If you do not know the variety, do 
you know if
>they are everbearing or not?  Deany, zone 4
>
>ljmccrea wrote:
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>>         Do I need to prune my Raspberries?  I had a wonderful first 
year crop
>> this summer but am at a loss now that the vines are losing the 
leaves.
>>                 Lisa  zone 8
>>
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