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Why should you prune raspberries?
Every year your raspberry bushes need to be pruned, logically because if you never prune you will get a wild plant that produces little or no tasty fruit. Pruning raspberries is easy, especially with our top tips.
There is not only the pruning of your raspberry bush. After pruning you can also thin out your raspberry plants. Raspberries often want to go out into the wide world and that happens best with a little good care from you.
When you have pruned and thinned out all the raspberry plants, you can also tie them up. This is to position the shoots nicely in the sun and to prevent them from hanging against the ground and rotting due to the weight of the fruits.
Pruning, thinning and tying raspberries improves light and air circulation, which reduces the potential pressure of diseases and pests. In this article I will explain everything to you.
If raspberries are not pruned , they are their own worst weed. When too many canes become crowded , they compete for sunlight, causing the shaded leaves and buds on the lower half of the plant to die. Without those buds, you will have fewer fruiting branches and a much smaller harvest.
