How to Prune Raspberries Plants?

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havemercy
Pruning raspberry plants is essential, because un-pruned raspberry bushes not only do not yield more raspberries, but they can cause problems. A guide to pruning raspberries can be found here: www.extension.iastate.edu/publications/rg501.pdf
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Summer-fruiting raspberries behave like blackberries, fruiting on one-year-old canes that are cut out after harvest and then replaced by the young canes. Autumn-fruiting varieties, however, are cut to the ground in late winter to make way for new canes that will grow from the base and fruit the same year.
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1. Remove weak or damaged raspberry canes in early spring, cutting them back to the ground level. Make a clean cut with a sharp pair of pruning shears. Discard the canes away from
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1. Remove any canes that look weak, sick or damaged in March or April for both summer-bearing and fall-bearing plants. Use sharp garden shears to make clean cuts at the base of the
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1. Cut back raspberry canes that produced berries all the way to the ground once the last of the raspberries has been produced and picked. This helps prevent the spread of disease
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1. Wait for the raspberry plant to finish producing its summer crop. Note which canes produced fruit this summer and which did not. Use garden shears to cut the canes that fruited
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