Questions tagged [raspberries]
Perennial of genus Rubus grown for its edible fruit.
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How often should soft fruit plants be replaced?
We inherited blackcurrants, gooseberries, raspberries and strawberries when we moved into our current property ten years ago.
The blackcurrants and gooseberries still seem to be giving a healthy ...
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How do I maintain a Raspberry plant?
I planted a raspberry cane this spring, and it appears to be doing well, having put out a new cane that is now 5 ft tall (and curving under its own weight.) There is also old growth at the bottom ...
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How do I prevent my berry leaves from getting scorched in the sun?
Raspberries are plants that require good exposure to sun. However, my black-raspberry plant has been getting scorched of late. Typical signs of sun-scorching are when the older leaves start drying out ...
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Are old raspberry canes required to be chopped off?
I just bought a Fall Gold Raspberry plant. It came with instructions to prune away canes that have already fruited because only new canes can fruit. What If I were to leave the old canes there? Do the ...
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Is it harmful to prune summer bearing raspberries in early autumn?
I planted raspberry canes last autumn which have grown well and produced a good crop this year. Some of the canes have grown to 7 or 8 feet and are dangling over the fence into a neighbour's garden.
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Should raspberries & boysenberries be pruned in early summer?
I have a boysenberry plant and a black-raspberry plant that are growing vigorously on a trellis. However, there are a couple of shoots (about a meter long now) that are growing away from the trellis ...
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Can blueberries and raspberries be planted near each other?
We have some raspberry canes growing in a space in our yard and while doing some work this summer I removed some thorn bushes and stunted trees that were taking up sun, which was great for the ...
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How to safely protect my raspberries from pests
I have a flourishing crop of raspberries (I live on Long Island, NY) but last year and now this year I am seeing tiny little worms or caterpillars inside the raspberries. The insects are white and ...
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mail order raspberry plants, now what
I ordered 4 raspberry plants from burpee and they came today. I was expecting just bare roots and a bare cane, but instead they came as a single stem with leaves and the roots in a ball of dirt. ...
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How can I propagate raspberry plants from cuttings?
A few years ago I purchased five raspberry plants and since then all but one of them have died. I would like to take as many cuttings as I can from this plant and root them to replace what I've lost. ...
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Should I bury my blackberry/raspberry canes in mulch over winter?
I have some blackberries and red raspberries, and I'm not sure how to winter-prep them. After pruning (which I'm skipping this year, since the primocane raspberries are only in their first year), how ...
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Replanting out of control raspberries
I recently purchased a house with a couple of rows of raspberries (which seem to be well established) in the garden. The first row on the north side was starting to disappear, so I trimmed it down ...
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Should I prune my Autumn-fruiting raspberries?
I have autumn fruiting raspberries (Autumn Bliss) which I planted in late spring. The original fruit canes have just made a very small crop, but the old canes are yellowing and beginning to wither, ...
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Care for young Raspberry plants
Last fall I planted 4 raspberry plants from Burpee. They grew a little and then it got cold and they went dormant. Now that it is spring they have been growing again. They are still very small and ...
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Can you grow raspberries in a pot/growbag?
Unfortunately we don't have a proper garden, but we do have an area that we can use for pots and/or grow bags. We've been offered some raspberry canes by a friend - but will they grow ok in pots or ...
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Is the Atherton Raspberry known to hybridize with other Rubus species?
Is Rubus probus (the Atherton Raspberry) known to hybridize with other Rubus species? It sounds like it would be pretty awesome in breeding programs.
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How far apart do raspberries and blackberries need to be planted?
Most horticultural guides I've read recommend not planting blackberries and raspberries near each other because they will spread diseases between each other. How far apart do they need to be to ...
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Harvested cane with new growth?
I purchased a house 2 years ago that had a young (1-2 years?) raspberry patch. Last year it had a lot of growth but only produced fruit on a few bushes. I have been waiting until spring to determine ...
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My live berry plants have been here a week. When do I put them in the ground?
I have raspberry and blackberry plants from Burpee that showed up here last week. Yesterday was the first day above freezing here in New Jersey (USA). There is still unmelted snow in my yard, and the ...
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How to prevent raspberries from shriveling before they've matured?
I have a 5 foot tall Fall Gold Raspberry plant. I bought it as a 4 foot plant from the local nursery earlier this year. It has been producing quite a lot of berries. There are perhaps 20 growing on ...
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Are ants/flies a threat to a raspberry bush?
Ants in my garden seem to especially love this raspberry bush at the moment.
I also notice these two little things that look like tiny flies sitting on the leaves- except they are not moving, like ...
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Are ants in my raspberry flowers beneficial or harmful?
I'm observing ants on my raspberry plants, especially in the flowers. They are diving head-forward into the flowers and stay there for a while. Just like flying insects on other flowers.
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Raspberry leaf curl disease? Can this be treated or prevented?
About a 1 1/2 months ago I ordered and received a live raspberry plant from Burpee. Burpee lists the plant as Crimson Night Raspberry PPAF. My understanding is that this raspberry is a variety ...
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What is eating my plants leaves?
I don't know what this bug is, but I'm sure it's why I have holes on my tomato plants leaves and raspberries plants leaves.
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Why are my raspberry's leaves curling up?
Last fall I planted 4 raspberry plants, two Heritage and two Killarney. Recently the two Heritage have had a handful of leaves curl up and fold in half so you only see the bottom of the leaf which ...
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What can I plant along a fence to combat grapevine?
There's a 4' chain link fence between my driveway and my neighbor's driveway with about 2' of space on either side for plantings. Currently there is nothing specific planted in the space, and every ...
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What is the best way to sprout extracted seeds from fresh Driscolls Maravilla raspberries?
On a recent trip to a pick-your-own fruit and vegetables farm, I was fascinated how they had columns of fresh raspberries. They tasted lovely and sweet. I was inspired and wanted to figure out how to ...
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Are white spots on raspberries mold?
I was cheerfully eating all raspberries from the small plot in the backyard, including the 5% with white spots—pictured.
Today while pulling one of those with a white spot, I saw a little puff of ...
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What would cause only one cane of a raspberry plant to show nutrient defficiency?
I have a Canby raspberry plant. One cane is showing some form of nutrient deficiency. On other hand, the other stalk is is flourishing and even budding fruit. What would cause this, seeing as the two ...
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Leaves are dying slowly on Raspberry plant-what on earth is wrong?
I am in desperate need of some help. I have been trying to figure out what is killing my Raspberry plants and have come up with nothing so far.
Let me give some background information that may be of ...
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What is this cluster?
OK, so I was gifted with an everbearing raspberry vine. I noticed this on the top of one of my healthy primocanes (I say healthy because I had to prune an unhealthy cane recently). I cannot tell if ...
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What-if anything-is wrong with my raspberry?
I am in zone 7. This is a heritage everbearing raspberry that is in its first year. It produces a crop in the fall and a crop in the spring, so they tell me. I have only had it a few months. I have ...
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What's this bug drilling into my raspberry canes, and how upset should I be?
When I went out to water my raspberries this afternoon, I saw the back end of a little bug disappearing into a hole at the top of one of the canes. Here are the holes:
And here's the bug:
It's about ...
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How to encourage new raspberry stalks to grow away from the main stalk?
Here's a photo of my Canby raspberry plant. The new stalks are only growing near the original stalk. My Fall Gold raspberry plant is also doing the same thing. Is this caused by my mulching? I would ...
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Why do my raspberries lack sweetness and character?
After a few years of development, my raspberry vines are yielding a bumper crop of beautiful, perfect looking berries:
They have great texture, too.
Unfortunately, they don't taste that good. They're ...
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What to do with Raspberry 2-year-old cutting in March in Chicago
I bought a 2-year-old cutting of a raspberry bush and it arrived over the weekend. I am in Chicago and we will have freezing weather for the next few weeks.
Should I plant it like I normally would if ...
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Should I tear holes in woven landscape fabric to cover ground of existing raspberry plants?
It turns out that raspberry plants multiply like a weed. Initially they were in a 1ft x 6ft plot. Now they spread to the adjacent 8ft x 8ft plot.
I'm not complaining. I wish it were possible to move ...
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Why should I not grow 2 different types of raspberries in the same bed?
I've often been given advice (in blogs, books and verbally) that if you have planted a particular type of raspberry in a bed to not plant a different type. I've always been disappointed that it's not ...
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Mowing Fall Bearing Raspberries
I live on zone 6a and have some fall bearing raspberries which were recently mowed (November 3rd). This was about two weeks after first frost. Unfortunately, I've learned after the fact that the time ...
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Is it possible to propagate raspberries from cuttings?
Based on my preliminary Internet research, you can't propagate raspberries from cuttings the common way, i.e. cutting pieces from the stem and placing it in water or a rooting medium. I tried it ...
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White Raspberries after a frost
My raspberries have turned white. They were red, but we had a frost and now are white, are they still okay to eat?
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Transplanting raspberries in Nov after first planting them in the previous spring
I live in south central KY. I have raspberry bushes I dug up Nov 5th this year. They were just set out back in the spring this year. Two of them have long canes now. I found 3 berries on them when I ...
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Crispy burnt leaves on raspberry plant
I have a handful of raspberry patches.
In one of the patches of cultivar prelude the plants are showing some black “crusting” around a small number of leaves, like they were burnt. The cane and other ...
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Raspberries and Poison Ivy, Mixed
We have a patch of raspberries. Mixed in is one or more poison ivy plants. We know for sure because they're easy to tell apart when the berries are present. We currently do not harvest the ...
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Can cutting the stem, green raspberry berries ripen in water
Can different kinds of raspberries, be cut and ripen if the berry is green in water? Cuttings Before the frost hits. Thank you.
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Elderberry Proximity to Other Berries?
I was just gifted two elderberry vines (one Adams and one Johns variety), but I also already have two healthy black raspberry plants growing in my backyard. I read somewhere that black raspberries ...
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Do raspberry primocanes canes look different from second year growth?
Is there a difference in, say, stem color or thorn size or texture, between black raspberry primocanes and second year plants? How can I tell between the two?
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How are these 2 year old raspberry canes alive?
This is one of two floricanes on my everbearing raspberry plant that are 2 years old. That is, they grew about 2 years ago and are now in their 3rd calendar year.
From what I've read, the general ...
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What’s this raspberry fungus?
I have a white powder/fungus showing up on my raspberries and actually my blackberries too.
Does anyone know what this is and how to treat it if necessary? My 18 month old eats off of this so non ...
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Why are my raspberries' leaves turning brown? [closed]
My yellow berries were doing great until a couple of months ago then the leaves started to turn brown and curl up. It started slowly but almost took over the whole plant. There is new growth on the ...
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