Pruning raspberries in spring

Raspberries are perhaps the most favorite and healthy berry for everyone. Everyone loves her, especially children. Although it is believed that raspberries are not a fastidious plant, you also need to take care of them if you want to reap a good harvest.

Compared to other fruit and berry bushes, caring for raspberries is quite simple. Basic care involves pruning raspberry bushes. Usually, raspberries are pruned in the spring in the second year after planting raspberry bushes.

Raspberry pruning

As a rule, diseased shoots that are broken and underdeveloped are pruned. It is necessary to leave from 15 to 20 shoots per linear meter of raspberry bushes. If there were severe frosts in winter and some of the tops of the raspberry bushes froze, then the shoot should be cut back to a healthy bud.

Some gardeners recommend cutting off the tops of even good and healthy raspberry shoots a little (by 15-20 cm). By using this simple method of pruning shoots, the raspberries will be larger and this will not affect the amount of harvest.

Pruning raspberries in the spring is mandatory, but in the fall it is also necessary to carry out sanitary work, which consists of pruning two-year-old shoots that have already bear fruit. Such shoots are cut off to the very root. By autumn pruning you improve air exchange and light penetration to young shoots.