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- How to cut your raspberries back properly
- Cut back raspberries
- Tips for cutting raspberries soon
- Cut back the summer raspberries
- Cut back the autumn raspberries
- Cutting back the raspberries as a care measure
- Remove sick and weak rods
- When to cut your raspberries
- Tips & Tricks
How to cut your raspberries back properly
The cutting back of raspberries is one of the most important care measures. If you do not remove the harvested shoots, wait for the raspberry harvest in vain next year. But you must also remove sick and weak rods.
Cut back raspberries
Summer raspberries and autumn raspberries are cut back differently.
Summer raspberries bear their fruit only on biennial rods, while they grow on autumn raspberries on the annual rods.
So, before you cut your raspberries, you need to know what variety your perennials are. A clue is the harvest season. Summer raspberries are harvested in July. For autumn raspberries, the harvest does not begin until August.
Tips for cutting raspberries soon
Cut back the summer raspberries
Cut back the autumn raspberries
The harvested rods are cut down to the ground. Do not leave any leftovers. They are a good breeding ground for diseases.
Cutting back the raspberries as a care measure
Raspberries are very prone to fungal diseases. In order to curb the spread of fungal spores, the plants should not be too dense. Per perennial a maximum of 15 rods is sufficient. Cut out all the extra shoots.
By letting it out, the air can circulate between the rods. This allows the aerial parts of the plant to dry well.
So the spores are deprived of the basis, because they need moisture to spread.
Remove sick and weak rods
Root rot and Ruthen disease are among the most common raspberry diseases. They are noticeable in that the leaves of the affected rods turn yellow and dry up. Finally, the whole shoot dies.
Therefore, cut off all diseased rods immediately and do not try to treat them first. Do not dispose of the affected rods in the compost, but burn them or throw them into the household waste.
You should also remove weak rods. They carry only a few fruits and rob the plant unnecessarily force.
When to cut your raspberries
The harvested summer raspberry twigs cut down directly after harvesting in summer. For autumn raspberries you wait until autumn, because the perennials still bear until the onset of frost.
The cutting back of sick rods or shortening to long shoots can make you the whole garden year over.
Tips & Tricks
Garden experts recommend pulling summer raspberries on a V-frame. The one-year-old rods are tied to only one side of the Rankhilfe, the two-year old on the other side. This simplifies pruning because you know exactly which shoots are annual and which are biennial.