[grellis]

I'm not sure what the difference is between a raspberry bush or a berry cane. Mine are everbearing canes. They fruit first in the late summer, at the top of the cane, then they fruit again the following spring further down the cane. With enough canes growing, you have continuous fruit from June to early October.

It only took me about thirty minutes to pull out the "spent" canes and to prune off the tops of last fall's fruiting canes (you get bigger berries and a heavier yield when you do that, I have found). I spent another two hours digging up over 80 daylilies that have been spreading through the raspberry thicket. I pulled out a few thousand daylily bulbs.

I hate daylilies!!!

[Gabz]

I don't even remember what the raspberry was - but I am asuming it is a cane - because the things are about 6 feet long.

Other than my veggies I am a believer in only having plants that thrive under benign neglect. I have an absolute black thumb when it comes to anything other than veggies and herbs. I don't do flowers and I don't do house plants!

Hubby and I attacked the three "shrubs" along the driveway yesterday. They are now only about 4feet tall each. The only green on them is some viney stuff that has taken over in the area of the bushes and we can't get rid of it.

The really cool thing about cutting all that stuff down yesterday was the fact that we didn't have to move it when we did it. I looked at the piles of it and said to hubby - thankfully we don't live in Dover and so don't have to move this tonight - his response was we don't live in Dover so we can burn it right where it is!!!!

We are going to move it - but we still do plan on burning it!