How to Prune Your Autumn-Fruiting Raspberries

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By Gen Schmidt
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Fresh Tasty Raspberries

Winter is the best time to prune your Autumn-fruiting raspberries.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Step 1

Autumn-fruiting raspberries fruit on the current season's growth, so if the fresh shoots which came up this year produced fruit for you, then prune it as follows.
Step 2

Wait until mid to late winter when your berries have lost their leaves or gone icky-looking.
Step 3

Then cut down every single stem one inch above ground level.
Step 4

If you aren't sure if your berry is summer-fruiting or autumn-fruiting, simply prune out every single cane that has produced fruit. You can tell which ones have borne fruit, because there will be obvious stem remnants where the fruit was picked.
Step 5

Winter is also a good time to dig up and move any raspberry plants that have traveled outside of your garden bed. These plants are good and will bear fruit.
Step 6

For other kinds of brambleberry such as blackberry and loganberry, simply remove every cane that has borne fruit.

Tips & Warnings

If you don't know which kind you have, just prune out every cane that has borne fruit.
Don't prune the Autumn-fruiting type of berry until they go dormant in winter, since if you prune too early it will encourage new growth to come up just in time to get damaged by winter weather.

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