How to cut back my raspberries?

[bluesky]

We inherited a great row of raspberries when we moved here.

I presume now is a good time to cut them back/down/wherever?

Do I take the whole plant down, or leave one stem tall and cut the other stems of the plant low?

Would appreciate some advice, as we got some great raspberries this year and am would like it to happen again next year!

Cut down the canes that have fruited last year - hard I know if you werne't there to see it, but old canes shoudl look 'old' - i.e. brown and poss with little dried-up leftover flowers/fruit on. The new canes for this year should be sprouting green now. If not cut down the lot and let the new ones regenerate.

Are they summer or autumn fruiting ones?

We ahve autumn ones and they should be cut back end of Dec. I cut the whole lot right dow nto the ground.

Summer ones shoukld be cut back once they finish fruiting.

Thanks. They are summer ones, it was because I kept reading in the Sunday papers about cutting back autumn ones, I though ah-ha!

When it stops rainin g(?!) I will go and look at them captainmummy and work out the new green ones and cut the rest back down.

Do you do anything with strawberry plants? Or do you just leave them?

strawberry plants you can just leave - they gt on with it themselves; you just have to watch for runners, the long sort-of shoots that the plant stretches out, they are a way of propagating the plant. If you dont want loads of new little plants, cut the runner off. If you do, then root them by weighting down so that they touch the ground (or just leave them, i do). It sounds like your garden is going to be the place to be in the summer - yum!

thanks. I know summer pudding and big pavlovas ....... yum!