Well I did get started on pruning the raspberries when the sun peeked through yesterday. They are double croppers giving berries on the tips of new crop of canes in the late fall and then you cut off the tips for a second crop of berries in the late spring the following year. You also cut out the dead old canes to make room for those new canes that come up in the spring.
You’re making me hungry!!!!!
I have had absolutely no luck with berries at all. I’ve tried raspberries (black and red), blueberries and strawberries. I finally gave up.
Thankfully there are several U-Pick berry places nearby, so I get what I need for jams that way.
I want to grow raspberries, but I have a LOT of roses (200+) and raspberry cane borers are death on roses.
Most of the cane borers that trouble roses, do the boring on the cut ends of a cane. You can identify the problem easily and cut out the cane below the borer. You can also seal cuts thus eliminating the problem entirely. The raspberry cane borers enter the cane through the sidewall low down. You don’t see the damage and they often kill the bush.
Do you have any experience with this pest? If I thought there was a viable control, I’d start with raspberries this spring.