When the new primocanes emerge, maintain a row width of 12–15 inches by removing excess suckers by pruning or cultivation. For this method, cut all canes to ground level when plants are dormant. You can grow fall-bearing raspberry for a fall crop only. Thin canes as for summer-bearing raspberry. Remove the portion of canes that fruited last fall (the tips). Remove the weak or damaged canes and the two-year (spent) floricanes that bore the summer fruit. Primocanes (new cane growth) bear fruit in the fall at the tips of the cane and produce a second crop the following spring from lateral branches.
You can grow these plants for both an early summer and a fall crop. After you have harvested the last of the fruit, remove all old floricanes on which fruit was borne. Remove all canes that grow between the hills or in the row aisles by pruning or cultivating. Thin remaining primocanes (new cane growth) to 10–12 canes per hill or four to five per foot of hedgerow, and shorten the canes to 5 1⁄2 feet to encourage branching. During the dormant seasonįrom October through early March, remove all weak, broken, diseased and insect-damaged canes. Summer-bearing red raspberries are biennial in habit, growing one year and producing fruit the next. See Growing Raspberries in Your Home Garden for more information. Pruning methods for raspberries vary, depending on the type of raspberries you plan.
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