Pruning continued today. I cut out all of last year's fruiting blackberry and raspberry canes, so all that remains is new growth. I shortened the canes, raspberries to 5 feet and blackberries to about a foot of secondary growth on the 6 foot primary growth. I dug out all of the useless varieties of blackberries - Prime Ark Freedom and Arapaho, just keeping Triple Crown. I made the blackberry bed smaller now that there is only one cluster. There is room for another if I add it.
It seems like kind of extreme pruning. However, I think it's not that different from the recommendations, This years' crop will tell me if I did OK.
I think you did the right thing!
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