The size of any fruit tree is essential to their vigor and production. This is especially true for raspberry bushes which may not produce at all if you don’t prune them. How to go about pruning the raspberry? Which variety should be pruned in November?
Pruning raspberry bushes is not particularly complex but still deserves to be carried out according to the rules of the art, whether your raspberry bushes are everbearing or not. A little set of pruning shears and the thing will be in the bag: your raspberry bushes will produce in abundance.
The raspberry tree, a hardy fruit shrub
The raspberry bush is particularly rustic whatever variety you choose and will be able to adapt to almost any any type of soil, if it is not too acidic or too calcareousand location.
Can measure from 80 cm to 2 m highthe raspberry plant has superficial roots which can be quite impressive, sometimes causing shoots to appear in unlikely places.
Finally, there is two kinds of raspberries. Raspberries remontants which bear fruit in June and October, and raspberry bushes non remontants which bear fruit in June/July.
A beautiful line of raspberry bushes, production is assured! © Valdas Jarutis
Regulate humidity
Plant native to the undergrowth, the raspberry bush appreciates humus that you can bring to it by mulching it with numerous dead leaves. Mulching has a particularly strong impact on the vigor of raspberry bushes and is absolutely necessary, particularly to prevent them from suffering from the drought they fear.
Why prune raspberry bushes?
The size of the raspberry bush is subject to the same rules that any size fruit tree and it must be carried out at the right times to ensure that they do not wither away.
If unpruned raspberry bushes continue to supply you with raspberries for a while, it will not last long because they will get tired : they will have less and less space to ripen their fruits and will have to increasingly direct their energy towards growth rather than production.
When to prune raspberry bushes?
The raspberry bushes are pruned depending on the type of raspberry bushnamely rising or non-rising.
For the raspberries non-everbearing, pruning of the stems must be carried out in Julyafter fruiting.
For the raspberries remontants you will have to make two prunings. One size in June and a size from November after autumn fruiting, from the first frost and until February.
How to prune raspberry bushes?
Pruning non-everbearing raspberries
Prune the stems that have borne fruit to the ground and after fruiting in July. You can possibly wait until March to remove the stems provided you don’t make a mistake. The other stems are left intact and will bear fruit next year.
Pruning everbearing raspberries
Everbearing raspberry bushes are therefore pruned twice since they bear fruit twice a year. The first in June where you will have to cut the stems flush which bore fruit, and the second from November where you will cut the tops of the stems which bore in the fall so as to remove all the part that bore fruit.
To prune evergreen raspberry bushes, cut the tops that bore in the fall – © Tramp57
In either case, as for tomatoes for example, do not leave pruning waste in your garden because they very often carry parasites.
And now that’s it, all that remains is to find out about the best way to process your harvest !
by Denis Retournard, Jean-Yves Prat
Accessible to all thanks to its simple language and alphabetical classification, The ABC of Pruning guides you, gesture by gesture, to prune the trees and shrubs in your garden: your daily companion in the garden
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