Now that freezing weather has finally arrived, it’s time to cut back fall-bearing raspberry canes. I like to wait until the raspberry plants are exposed to a hard freeze before cutting them down.

Up until now it’s been a good November to be working outside. This has given us an opportunity to continue working on fall gardening chores. One of those fall chores is cutting back fall ...

Writing on his popular blog, Monty Don says that it's best to 'cut back autumn fruiting raspberries to the ground, removing all of last year’s canes' in late winter each year. This means you'll ...

because those canes will die this winter. Raspberry canes grow one season, bear fruit the second season, then die. So at any one time, there are two types of canes in the patch - first-year canes ...

If you just cut the top third off, protect them for the winter as discussed above. Since raspberries sucker to propagate, annual spring thinning of all but the strongest five to seven canes per ...

The tips die off over the winter, but the rest of the cane fruits the following summer and then dies completely. Because fall ...

Black and purple raspberries and erect blackberries are pruned similarly as they both grow from a hill. During the dormant season (late winter to spring) prune out weaker canes and thin the ...

As you mention, Jim, rabbits, which love raspberry canes, do most of the cutback for you each winter. Jim also mentions they average six to 12 gallons of berries per year from a raspberry patch 12 ...

Summer-fruiting raspberries (floricane) produce canes every year. These new canes grow throughout the summer, go dormant in the winter and produce raspberries the following summer, before dying back.

Bramble plants (blackberry and raspberry), like deciduous fruit trees, are best planted in Southern California in the fall or winter. Bramble fruit are harvested from canes which produce a crop in ...