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Nov 16, Best offers for your garden - bushcleanup.bar to Prune Heritage Raspberries. A Heritage raspberry is a type of ever. Dec 22, Heritage Raspberries will produce either one crop or two crops depending on how you prune them. In this video, I'm pruning ours for a single crop. Subscribe. Jul 27, Red Raspberry Bush Pruning Summer-bearing – Remove all weak canes to the ground in early spring.

Leave 10 to 12 of the healthiest canes, about ¼ inches ( cm.) in diameter, with 6 inch (15 cm.) spacing. Tip prune any that may have suffered cold damage.

First Year Pruning: To have 2 crops, first-year canes (primocanes) should be left unpruned.

For only a fall crop, mow all the canes down to 2"-3" after the fall harvest during late fall or late winter. Annual Pruning: A well pruned raspberry patch will be healthier and more fruitful because of better distribution of light, air movement, and pesticides. Hand held clippers and thick gloves are necessary when pruning. When to Prune Raspberry Plants Once your raspberry plants have put on enough growth (which may not be until after their first year with you), aim to prune in the early spring, just as new growth emerges.

Prune young canes back until they are around 4 to 5 feet bushcleanup.bar Raspberries are usually planted in rows and trained along a post and wire system. But, if you have a smaller garden, you can still grow raspberries, either in containers or trained up a single post Fall is the best time to plant raspberries.

Prune in summer immediately after bushcleanup.barre: Full Sun, Partial Sun.