raspberries - i'm confused

I have eight plants of each of summer fruiting and autumn fruiting. The summer ones have almost finished. Do I cut the old stems right back to the ground. Some of them have sent up new shoots which i presume will fruit next year. Do i have to ties these to a stake, they are very tall or can I cut them back also if so by how much.

I will worry about the autumn fruiting ones later and probably come back and ask a similar question about them.
This is my first year growing raspberries and they have been ery good

Ta

very much

B

 

Yes, your right, you cut down the fruited stems of the early ones and tie in the new stems for next year.
The late ones, called autumn fruiting, although mine are fruiting already, you cut down to the ground in Jan/Feb time.

 

You can take off the top of the new canes if you wish, they actually develop side shoots and so increase your fruit production.

 

Instead of using individual stakes you might be better inserting a post giving about 6 feet above ground at each end of the row and then running two wires between them at about 3 foot and 5 foot. You can then tie the rasps to the wires. Makes pruning and care a lot easier.

 

Hello. I'm also growing raspberries for the first time this year and mine are the autumn fruiting variety. I only have two canes. One is about four foot high and fruiting well. The other has reached eight foot and not a flower in sight! They have both been treated exactly the same. Any idea what has gone wrong?

G x