The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Growing => Fruit => Topic started by: Sudanpan on July 15, 2015, 09:23:54 pm
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We have some summer fruiting raspberries which are yielding a few punnets of fruit now :excited: We also have some autumn fruiting raspberries that did very well last year and I was hoping for the same from them this year - but I don't think things look very promising.
I cut the autumn fruiting canes down to ground level in Nov as directed - but there doesn't seem to be any growth from them at all yet. Am I being impatient?
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Autumn rasps are cut down once they have fruited over the winter. Growth should start in the spring.
I would have expected growth by now....in fact I would be expecting to thin out the autumn canes just now.
Were the rasp canes bought from a nursery?
I'm wondering if its root rot but then the summer fruiting ones would have succumbed to that too.
Could you shed a little more info on the matter e.g. site, previous crop/plants in area, anything applied to the canes - fert, compost?
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All the raspberries are planted out in a soft fruit bed - the summer ones are next to the autumn ones. The fruit bed is in the day range of the chickens. We planted all the plants last spring - the bed was newly dug for the soft fruit plants. We dug in a fair amount of compost when we got the bed sorted.
Otherwise the treatment of the summer and autumn fruiting plants have been the same.
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Well I'm at a loss ???
I'd perhaps do a bit of ferreting about at the roots to see what they are looking like. See if there is any signs of growth.....if there isn't root rot is a possibility. If it is, you wont get rasps to grow there again.
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When we bought this place there was a neglected raspberry patch.. about 30 paces by 5 paces and full of autumn fruit. At the end of fruiting I decided to cut to ground zero half of it. that part took 2 years to recover whereas the half i neglected again carried on strong. The density, difficult access ad nettles etc in the area means that now I just mow a path up the middle.. so two 1 pace patches with a gap and leave it alone.
At th moment there's more raspberries than we could eat ..albeit they're a fairly high protein meal ::) due to all the hovering insects unles you get lucky just after it's rained. I;ve just grazed my brekkie there.