How to Grow Raspberries

[rancherhicks]

I really appreciate this video. I lost my job and am working to cut costs by planting fruit. Dave is great at explaining things.

Thanks,

Rancher

[digiihippie]

Have been looking for this information, and all the websites that I have found don't explain it as well as you have. Thanks for the info!

[ExtensionUMaine]

@digiihippie Thank you for watching!

[seocom]

Thanks.. I have had a difficult time with raspberries..

[togetvj]

Help! In 2010, I planted Polka, a primocane/everbearing variety. This spring, 2011, it produced small berries on new canes. When they had finished bearing I cut the canes down to the ground as strong, new canes had grown. I was expecting that in spring 2012 those new canes would provide fruit but they have borne big fruits this autumn, 2011. So, what now? When do I cut down these autumn bearing canes. I live in the north of England so it is quite cold here in winter. Help!

[UMaineExtension1]

@togetvj By the way, another fall crop will be coming from this years primocanes. This is explained in our video "How to Grow Raspberries". If you prune them as regular you will get the two crops each year. Alternatively, you can mow them after the fall crop and just get one crop per year (the fall primocane crop). Less fruit but less labor to prune.

[togetvj]

@UMaineExtension1 Thank you for the advice. I really appreciate it. I think getting two crops is the best for me. I live high up on the Pennine Mountains in West Yorkshire, UK, and found that the second crop, rather late, became subject to attack by frost. So, hopefully, I will be able to get plenty of fruit from the first crop.

[Chizpurfle52595]

look at how tall those canes are!!!

[lunatangosc]

thanks!!



[StowAlex]

Very informative

[northernpike56]

this video doesn't show how to grow raspberries, it tells how they grow :-(

[teamgrn]

can you put onions and garlic by raspberries/ blackberries?

[Killinemdead1]

@teamgrn no the onions and garlic will make the raspberries taste bad

[Thaneii]

@teamgrn Wouldn't recomend it. Raspberries spread, and if you plant the onions and garlic too close to the raspberries, you won't be able to harvest them. Also, you wouldn't want them competing for water.

[WoodlandRavah]

From personal experience, the shoots/roots will survive for years, they like heavily mulched soil, and the shoots/roots should be transplanted[if necessary] right B4 spring starts... the shoots/roots are dormant in winter, once spring starts they start to reestablish their root system,

if you pull them in spring or summer they will probably die...

Try to keep them tied to a lattice or something since when they start to fruit they drup over a bit...

[xXcrazyalec40Xx]

no it is perrenial the canes will live trough the winter

[dogtracks39]

Thank you for your video.

[noaa2337]

Thanks for the vid but it was not clear what happens after the second year ends. Do you need to plant all over again? Thanks...

[missbluerain]

@noaa2337 Yeah I was just wondering the same thing. Do they regrow new shoots and each shoot has a life span of 2 years or do you need to replant every 2 years?

[gonffen]

@missbluerain The plant itself is perennial. Only the CANES are biennial. Apparently you're supposed to prune the canes after they fruit. I've also read that you should clone the plant after 4-5 years because they don't produce as well once they reach 5 years of age. However, from what I can gather a lot of people have very successful raspberry gardens without doing so.

[Thaneii]

@noaa2337 Because raspberries spread as new canes every year, they do not need to be cloned or replanted. Also, while second year canes will produce fruit, if you cut them back all the canes at the end of the first year, you won't get a bumper crop from those canes, but the new ones next year may have a greater yield, since less energy is being put into last years canes.