How can I make raspberry jungle manageable?

rosie383

Thank you so much for all the advice. I finally got time yesterday, and have put strong bamboo canes in with legs of tights tied along them, and sort of 'coralled' the raspberry canes behind the tights IYKWIM!
It has pulled them all back from the path and they look great! It also looks like there is loads more room, which I need as I have no allotment now.
I also dug out the massive globe artichoke plants and weeded my 3 veg patches in preparation for getting my planting done. Spuds going in tomorrow methinks!

floyd

Another question about rampaging raspberries.
I have autumn fruiting raspberries in a DIY fruit cage, but they have become too tall this year and are growing through the roof of the cage making harvest a bit of a nightmare. Is it possible to prune the tops of each cane during the growing season to limit their height or will it adversely affect my crop?
I just want to know for next year as I cut them right down so that only an inch or so of each cane was left but they've rocketed away this year.

Sambucus_Nigra

floyd wrote: »

Another question about rampaging raspberries.
I have autumn fruiting raspberries in a DIY fruit cage, but they have become too tall this year and are growing through the roof of the cage making harvest a bit of a nightmare. Is it possible to prune the tops of each cane during the growing season to limit their height or will it adversely affect my crop?
I just want to know for next year as I cut them right down so that only an inch or so of each cane was left but they've rocketed away this year.

They will do - autumn rasps fruit on fresh growth the same year. and of course you can keep the height down, they will likely grow sideways if you do of course.

Do you really have a fruit cage round rasps? I find that we have plenty of fruit to be going on with and we only started out with 18 plants. 6 earlies, 6 mid season and 6 autumn fruiting.

BAGGY

Is there a 'one size fits all' pruning method for summer and autumn rasps? Mine have been going since about June, and have had a second fruiting (don't know if same canes so maybe have both?) but seeing as I dont consider we have actually HAD a summer (except the last 2 days) I am at a loss.

floyd

Sambucus_Nigra wrote: »

They will do - autumn rasps fruit on fresh growth the same year. and of course you can keep the height down, they will likely grow sideways if you do of course.

Do you really have a fruit cage round rasps? I find that we have plenty of fruit to be going on with and we only started out with 18 plants. 6 earlies, 6 mid season and 6 autumn fruiting.

Many thanks for the advice.
We ended up having to put a fruit cage around the 3 rasps as we live on the edge of woodland and were losing most of the fruit to a combined attack of blackbirds, field mice and squirrels . I did have them loosely netted but it was a swine to take off to pick them.

tanith

My Autumn fruiting raspberries are about 9ft tall this year I don't remember them ever being quite that tall but the berries are huge too so I can't really complain..

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my allotment neighbour`s raspberries are a rampant nuisance, they lean right over the grass path and are coming up in my raised beds. She makes no attempt to control them. I used to have summer berries at my former house and was religious about cutting old canes and tying in the new, I had amazing crops and no wondering plants.

This november I am expecting some polka autumn plants and intend to keep them in order. Do I need stakes and wires, I thought they were not needed

Sambucus_Nigra

I don't stake/wire any of mine. I may have to do the Glen Coes though, mainly because they are 8ft tall already and are bending over.