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  • From: Marlin Burkholder <burkholders AT glenecofarm.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Pruning Primocane Fruiting Raspberries
  • Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2011 21:39:34 -0400

When I first started my Heritage raspberries here in Virginia I would get
them beginning to ripen in late August, peaking in mid September, and
continuing to bear well into October, and on a few occasions, still picking
a few berries as late as election day. As the plantings get older and the
rows more filled in, they seem to be generating a higher proportion of
primocanes emerging from the ground in early April and not as many emerging
later in the spring (May and June) as in younger plantings. Every year it
seems like they begin bearing and peaking earlier and ending earlier. This
past summer they started in early August, peaked two weeks later, and were
basically over and done by mid September.

I generally mow back the edges of the raspberry rows to a 2'-- 2 1/2' width
sometime in June. Next year I am considering mowing the row edges back to a
one foot row width in mid May and then mowing to the usual 2 1/2' width in
mid June. This should give me a one foot band of early primocanes in the
center of the row to begin the season, and a nine inch band of later emerged
primocanes on the sides to bloom later and stretch out the season.


>> any info on" pruning" primocane fruiting raspberries (besides mowing off
>> to
>> the ground after fruiting) so any sources of info would also be greatly
>> appreciated.






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