However, you may find that raspberry suckers also pop up.

Cut back the lateral (side) branches to 12 inches in length for black raspberries and 18 inches for purple raspberries. When pruning is completed, remove the pruned material from the garden area and destroy it.

Removal and destruction of the pruned material helps control raspberry diseases, such as anthracnose and spur blight. Jun 24, Subscribe Now:shrubhauling.bar?add_user=ehowgardenWatch More:shrubhauling.bar back a raspberry bush in earl.

Dec 01, Once you are done cutting back the black raspberry bushes, they won’t look like bushes anymore. For spring pruning, wait until the plants are budding, but not leafing out. If the plant is leafing out, pruning could stunt its growth. The canes that produced berries the year before will be dead, so cut them down to the ground.

Cut any other canes that have been damaged by the cold Estimated Reading Time: 3 mins. Prune off the top of the cane of a two-crop raspberry that has borne fruit; cut the cane back to the lowest point on the cane that bore fruit (usually about 45 inches from the ground).

Leave the bottom of the cane to fruit the following spring or early shrubhauling.barted Reading Time: 3 mins. Jan 31, These new plants should be pruned back to around inches (around 5- 12cm) above ground level to encourage new canes to form. Pruning each year will allow you to maintain a healthy and productive raspberry shrubhauling.barted Reading Time: 9 mins.

Fortunately, they have a no-fuss pruning regime. It’ll take a good year for your canes to become established. Deal with all first-year raspberry canes the same way regardless of type. All you need do is tie the canes in at 4-inch intervals along your row and allow them to shrubhauling.barted Reading Time: 8 mins.