Kitchen Garden Forum

My raspberry plants are well established and are getting a bit out of hand. I cut them back to ground level in the winter but should I thin them out when they re-emerge in the spring ?

I don't know whether you technically should or not but when I cut mine back in Feb or near there I do try to thin them by digging one or two roots out at the same time if they are particularly close.

Mike, autumn fruiting raspberries are very invasive but also resiliant. When I cut them down in winter I just dig the unwanted plants out.

A little trick with Autumn fruiting Rasps is to not cut all the canes to the ground, I leave a few that are only cut down by half, I then get an earlier crop of the same tasty fruits, I have some close to harvesting now, last year they lasted well through September and into October.

Picked my first autumn fruiting rasps today, only half a dozen, but the above mentioned pruning method worked.