Impatient Rasberry Grower

olbas_oil

I want to plant rasberries that I can pick next year (as early as possible). If I planted an early variety as bare root in November, would I get a crop in Spring/early Summer 2015 or would they need two years?

wallbash

No/ yes Early varieties, grow on this years canes, Autumn cropping grows on that years canes. But you can plant / buy year old Raspberry canes, about three feet tall , that planted this year would produce early raspberries.
Bit expensive.

madjackslam

I was interested to hear Bob Flowerdew say that you can train any raspberries to be summer or autumn fruiting. Cut them down to the ground in February = autumn fruiting; leave newly grown canes = summer fruiting. Plus I liked his idea of digging up canes that have come up where you don't want them, putting them in pots and getting a year's crop out of them before chucking them away. It appealed to the lazy/economical gardener in me!

Lavendyr

madjackslam wrote: »

I was interested to hear Bob Flowerdew say that you can train any raspberries to be summer or autumn fruiting. Cut them down to the ground in February = autumn fruiting; leave newly grown canes = summer fruiting. Plus I liked his idea of digging up canes that have come up where you don't want them, putting them in pots and getting a year's crop out of them before chucking them away. It appealed to the lazy/economical gardener in me!

Not convinced. When we moved into our house we had a raspberry patch and didn't know if they were summer, autumn or a mix. I cut them all to ground level the first year and we got fruit from the autumn ones but nothing from the summer ones. Let the summer ones grow this year and we got summer raspberries.

tanith

I have a mix of both and I cut them both down to one foot canes in Feb and they both seem to fruit at the correct time.

JIMYB1

i planted febuary thsi year 20 canes Glen Ample cut them down to 6'' had such good growth in terms of new canes i left the old ones to produce a few much to my wifes delight cut off old one now got 3-4 new strong canes from each plant about 3-4' tall will probably get even better canes next year plenty of manure always helps rotted ofc