Gardening Calendar
Gardening Calendar
JANUARY
January is when climbers, shrubs and trees are leafless and in their dormant period and one of the best gardening months for pruning any garden subjects that could cause problems during winter storms and high winds. Wisteria is a good example of a climber that can be pruned now. After flowering the previous season and given a summer pruning it produces long wispy new growths that need to be controlled by cutting back. Either summer or winter pruning and whichever plant or shrub you are pruning the first step is to remove any dead or damaged branches.
JANUARY
January is when climbers, shrubs and trees are leafless and in their dormant period and one of the best gardening months for pruning any garden subjects that could cause problems during winter storms and high winds. Wisteria is a good example of a climber that can be pruned now. After flowering the previous season and given a summer pruning it produces long wispy new growths that need to be controlled by cutting back. Either summer or winter pruning and whichever plant or shrub you are pruning the first step is to remove any dead or damaged branches.
JANUARY
January is when climbers, shrubs and trees are leafless and in their dormant period and one of the best gardening months for pruning any garden subjects that could cause problems during winter storms and high winds. Wisteria is a good example of a climber that can be pruned now. After flowering the previous season and given a summer pruning it produces long wispy new growths that need to be controlled by cutting back. Either summer or winter pruning and whichever plant or shrub you are pruning the first step is to remove any dead or damaged branches.
Pruning Raspberry - Rubus idaeus
When pruning raspberries it is important to distinguish between two different types of raspberry plant: the summer raspberry and the autumn raspberry.
Summer raspberries bear fruit in summer, as the name suggests, whereas autumn raspberries bear fruit from the end of summer until the frost.
Furthermore, summer raspberries fruit on two-year-old canes and autumn raspberries fruit on one-year-old canes.
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Pruning between October and February
Autumn raspberries can be cut back hard after a harvest without endangering the following harvest. They can be cut down to the ground without any problem. However, you should be more careful with summer raspberries, only cutting off the (two-year-old) canes that have borne fruit.
If you plant raspberries in spring, it is advisable to cut back all the branches to approximately 30 cm in March. However, if you plant your raspberries in autumn, you do not have to prune straight away. Wait until after winter, cutting all branches back to approximately 30 cm in March.
Autumn raspberries may bear fruit for the first time in autumn, after which they can be pruned again.
Summer raspberries will not bear fruit straight away as this type of raspberry fruits on two-year-old canes. They consequently do not need pruning for the time being.