Growing Raspberries

Sorry, i know probably asked before but I've planted canes before with middling success

So these are raised beds I've had now for like 2 years, peas in them last year. I have Tulameen in 1 row and Autumn Bliss in the other (selection is limited in Northern Ireland as I can't ship from the mainland)

I've shown a photo of the pots they came in, so they're kind of established root wise. My question is should I cut the Autumn Bliss down even further to the ground? ATM there are as you see in 1 photo only a few very scrawny looking stems. I know Autumn Bliss will grow new ones and hopefully fruit this year but should I cut it tight to stop these growing leaves and potentially slowing growth? The Tulameen maybe the same to stop these little ones sprouting?

I've dried chicken manure pellets but I think I'll wait until later on and some better weather to sow them? What do yous feed them as they grow? Especially the autumn fruiting canes? How regular?

I've posts already side to side for the support for the peas. Just add in some string for helping keep them up as they grow?

Do yous ever "cap" them when they get too long? I've canes in a bad spot in the garden and they easily hit over 2m and end up falling over.

I'd have liked polka or Joan J for autumn fruiting as they seem to be better versions of Autumn Bliss. What's your own opinions of them?

My area is in my profile I think but we're a little higher up and wet climate! So hoping these prove good fruits!

 

Hi,

The Autumn Bliss should be cut down almost to the ground once planted, though as many say do not plant them too Deep, where possible guide thes root horizontally and shallow.
You should get a small crop of fruit this year.
Feeding , we plant with some FB&B and also at the beginning of the next season and again with something like Tom fertiliser once the flower buds start to form.

Similar thingd with the Tulameen which we also have, though of course you only take out the fruited stems.
We got Long Cane Tulameen so we got a small crop the first year, if yours are longish you could leave them and see if they fruit this year, or just cut them.

Yes, we top our Tulameens tall new canes in Autumn down to about 6ft, does not seem to affect the crop.

Think you will find you need some stouter canes and wires once the Tulameen grow up.

The Autumn Bliss have a couple of wires either side of the row, about 3ft apart just to stop them falling over when full of fruit.

 

Thanks Ricky! I'll cut them down tomorrow, I was just nervous Incase it would ruin them. I have them all planted to the old mark on the cane as it was pretty obvious thankfully.

The roots unfortunately were trained in those deep sort of pots and I was afraid of disturbing them too much, hopefully they spread out as the soil itself is very crumbly. It's a good compost mix I bought in and should be easy for them to spread out.

Thanks for the help!

 

Don't make the mistake I did-

I planted Summer and Autumn raspbs within about 1m of each other.
After a year or so I had Summer canes coming up amongst the Autumn varieties and vice versa.
So I didn't know which to cut to the ground and which to leave.

I started again and used a root barrier between them which has worked well for the past 4 years.

 

Thanks Pete. I've then well away and in separate raised beds! I need labels or I'll likely forget who's who and what's what! I'd originally wanted all of them to be primocane for Easter of handling, plus our crap summers here maybe help the fruit to have more time to ripen and plants to grow more? Who knows if that bits right!

I'll keep an eye on the Tulameen anyway and see if I can keep up with the right way around