Tired raspberries and wrongly located gladioli

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Hi. I garden in the South East.

I have raspberries which have been fruiting twice (global warming?) for a few years and are looking exhausted. Few new canes coming through for next spring as they’ve already fruited. Should I dig them up and start again? Anything I can do to stop them fruiting twice?

Also, my son planted some mystery bulbs which turned out to be gladioli. They are in totally the wrong place. Can I dig them up and move them? Should I bring them in and replant in spring?

Thanks!

I'd definitely move the glads.

Raspberries, I'm less sure of, but assuming they are meant to be summer fruiters, I'd cut down all this year's canes ( as you're supposed to do anyway) and cosset the new ones with some home made compost.

Thanks. I cut the canes after fruiting. Then the new canes are fruiting the same year.

I put a lot of compost on in the autumn.

I think this is what they are supposed to do! Sounds like you're doing it all very well indeed. Just eat the raspberries and be glad. (I moved from the SE to the SW and gardening here is so much more difficult, so I'm slightly envious!)

I’m cutting out the old canes but the new canes are fruiting now and turning yellow. There is very little coming through for next year. This has been a trend for the last few years - it was normal before then!

Ooh no idea about that. Naughty raspberries!

If your raspberries are autumn fruiting the new canes will not appear until spring next year. Wait until all fruiting is finished and then cut all canes back to the ground. I often wait until January/February to do mine.

If you have canes that grow and don't fruit, you may have summer fruiting raspberries, in which case, only canes which have fruited that year should be cut back, the rest should be tied in and left and will then fruit the next summer.

They are a summer fruiting variety. They fruit, then I cut the old canes out, then the young canes are also producing a small crop, leaving very little for the spring. I put them in 10 years ago and they’ve been doing this for about three or four years.

Do you cut them out in the summer? I wouldn't cut any canes until they go dormant in October/November, otherwise you'll encourage this new weak growth later in the year that will exhaust the plant. Also if they are fruiting on new canes they aren't summer fruiting regardless of the month they fruit. Mine start fruiting in July even though they are an autumn fruiting variety because I live in a sheltered area in the south and they start fruiting early.

Yes I cut the canes when the fruit is finished and the leaves are turning yellow.