Thursday, January 27, 2022

Pruning Blackberries and Raspberries. 1.27.22

 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.

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