what to do with my raspberry cane

I have tried cutting my canes down with no luck :dh:
can i just completely destroy them or what?

 

Summer flowering raspberries fruit on the previous years canes anyway, I am not sure that you need to discard them. But I have raspberries in my hedge and never cut them down so maybe I am wrong.

 

If you just cut off the ones that fruited wouldn`t that work if you are not sure. :cnfs:

 

As Pam said. If they cropped early cut down the canes that had fruit on and leave the others for next year. If they were a later variety (ie, cropped Sept/Oct/Nov) cut all canes pretty much to ground level as late varieties crop on new wood.
Sheelagh

 

thanks everyone for your help,
if i wanted to get rid of them for the rest of the year could i just cut them down really low or leave them?

 

With raspberries while 1 years wood is fruiting ,next years is growing, so next years stems are there now, then in spring the leaves and flowers appear, then the fruit from the flowers.
So really you always have raspberry canes there,