13:36, Mon, Aug 12, 2024 Updated: 13:37, Mon, Aug 12, 2024 Pruning fruit plants at the right time is crucial for a bountiful harvest, and this is particularly true for raspberries. Article continues ...

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.

Description: A popular bramble that grows 4 to 6 feet tall and bears tasty deep red fruit annually on floricanes in summer, on primocane tips in autumn and primocane bottoms the following summer.

In a hurry-up world, the garden keeps its own time. Old-fashioned plants like raspberries, asparagus and rhubarb ask us to slow down and wait for the sweet reward they offer. Commentator Julie ...

There is still time to plant new canes in these final weeks of dormancy, so if you don’t have any raspberries it is worth planting a row in your garden by early March. Dig in some home-made compost to ...