How to prune raspberries in spring to make a good harvest

Let's find out how to prune raspberries in the spring to make a good harvest. Pruning and autumn, and especially spring, are very important for raspberries, so that they should be properly cleaned of any debris, dried up useless branches, and give room for wind and sun. And if everything is done correctly, the raspberry will pour a large ripe fragrant berry to the delight of you and your household.
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Raspberry pruning looks like this - you need to remove branches to live shoots, clean them of dried garbage, remove the sprouted branches to give way to new ones that will bring the crop. In the autumn, after the raspberries finish bearing fruit and cannot be expected again this year, the raspberry must be brought in order, remove unnecessary branches, dead wood, peeled raspberries, and prevent from pests that are hibernated in raspberries, and after spring come to life and begin to eat your pets from all sides.

Pruning in the spring will provide an opportunity to significantly improve the yield and raspberry itself to refine after the winter. In winter, the branches often freeze, so blackened branches carefully, using a sharp pruning shears, cut, up to a living kidney, the branches should not exceed a height of 50 cm. To begin pruning raspberries should be in the spring, as the snow melts, around March-April (depending on region). Let’s take a closer look at the pruning path from autumn to spring.

So, in the fall:

- remove the shoots
- further follows sanitary pruning
- thin out annual shoots
- we burn all the cut-off parts, because it is in them that all kinds of pests are arranged for wintering, in order to come to vigorous activity in the spring.

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In the spring:

cut the tops by 10-12-15 cm, which will make it possible to get a larger crop.
Now we’ll tell you about such a trick that will help to enjoy raspberries all summer, stretching the fruiting time. In spring, raspberries should be trimmed to different heights. Divide the raspberry into 3 parts, cut the first by 15 cm, the second by almost half, and the third by the root, leaving about 10-15 cm. Thus, the raspberries will begin to bear fruit, as usual, but will stretch in time much longer, which will allow the whole summer eat fresh fragrant berry.

Tip: if you want to get the berry early, cover the raspberries in spring with a black film, raspberries will appear in your place a couple of weeks earlier.

See also: planting strawberries under black cover material.

Pruning raspberry trimmings

This type of raspberry is good because it can give a second crop in August, and also after a transplant in the first year it gives back the crop. After the second fruiting, it is recommended to completely cut raspberries completely for the winter to the very stumps. So the raspberry tree will winter well under the snow and by the spring will be ready to renew its vital functions. In the spring, when the raspberry grows, you need to prune again, remove the weak and frail thin shoots that still will not bring the crop, but only clog the raspberry, forming useless thickets that will also bring harm, obscuring the good lashes and saving them from normal ventilation by air.