Harvesting fresh raspberries from your home garden is a fulfilling experience, and with some thoughtful pruning, you can maximize your harvest. By removing old and diseased canes and thinning out ...

Question: When should we prune our raspberries? We planted ours a year ago and barely got a crop. Thank you. Answer: Late winter into early spring is time to prune cane berries, including established ...

Raspberries aren’t hard to prune, that is if you have the “regular” kind and can recognize older, dead canes. If this sounds like your raspberry patch, prune off the old canes at the base ...

Black and purple raspberries and erect blackberries are pruned similarly as they both grow from a hill. During the dormant season (late winter to spring) prune out weaker canes and thin the ...

These canes are left to produce berries the following summer. Prune these 2-year-old canes after the summer harvest as you would on a summer-only bearing raspberry.

Raspberry pruning is easy to confuse since the different types require different kinds of pruning.

Raspberries and blackberries are pruned in late winter or early spring to get rid of dead, damaged or dense and tangled canes.

Fall-bearing raspberries bear fruit in late summer (August to September) on the top third of the cane every year, including the year you plant them. If you don’t prune the canes, they will ...

Raspberries and their bramble cousin, blackberries, are considered biennial. This means they produce foliage the first year and the second, flowers and then fruit. The two-year-old canes die after ...

Harvesting fresh raspberries from your home garden is a fulfilling experience, and with some thoughtful pruning, you can maximize your harvest. By removing old and diseased canes and thinning out new ...

Harvesting fresh raspberries from your home garden is a fulfilling experience, and with some thoughtful pruning, you can maximize your harvest. By removing old and diseased canes and thinning out ...