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This video explains how to grow and prune raspberries correctly so plants stay healthy and produce reliable crops.
The guide covers planting position, spacing, supporting canes, watering and feeding. It also shows which canes to prune, how to encourage new growth and how pruning improves fruit production.
Raspberries are productive and easy to maintain when cared for properly, and these simple techniques help gardeners grow successful plants in gardens, raised beds and containers.
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Hello and welcome to the Yorkshire Gardeners how-to video for today. Today's video is going
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to be about how to prune your raspberries and also to take cuttings from your raspberries
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As you know raspberries are very expensive to buy as plants. They can cost anything like eight
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pound just for three three little plants so taking cuttings is an excellent way to
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make more plants on your plot um so that you get more produce and you can never have enough raspberries
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as you can freeze them and just use them when you want really they'll freeze for a long time so
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yes lots of raspberries equals happy people as you can see these are all my raspberries
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they all need chopping back from last year so i'm going to show you how to cut them back and how to
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know which ones to cut back some you need to leave but then some you can cut back because they won't
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grow again so well let me show you how to do it so the answer this trick is knowing which ones to
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cut back and which ones not to cut back so the best way to do it is get yourself a pair of little
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secateurs and what you need to do is find your raspberry cane and all you have to do is just
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scrape up and down it and if it's not green which it's not you can cut it back
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just like that so obviously this one here will need uh leaving but for example
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So if you scrape down it, it's showing green. So that means you leave it
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And that's the one that you need to keep. So all we have to do is just carry on and go along them
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Scrape. Dead. So chop it out. Just like that. Scrape. green so keep it Scrape dead so chop it out And we continue all the way on until we done them all
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It's as simple as that. So looking at this one. Again, that one's dead
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So, chop it off. A tree growing
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Chop that out. It's definitely dead, I can tell by that. A lot of times you can actually tell which ones are dead, like this one
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It's just wood. Chop it straight out. Those have to do with the scraping method
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if you can see that they're dead you know that it's done with uh but obviously these are actually
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showing buds on a lot of these so it's quite obvious which ones are ones to keep and which
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ones to get rid of uh i have left it a bit bit too late-ish but at least i can see which ones
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need chopping back at first hand i don't always have to do the scrape test so you just continue on like that until you've done them all now i'm going to show you how to do
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cuttings from raspberries so these raspberries here are what i've dug up as i've moved them from
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an area that they've just gone wild in so these ones i'm going to use to take some cuttings we're
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going to try it out i've never done this before so it may go wrong it may go right but it's an
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experiment and we'll see how we get on. As I said, raspberry canes are very
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expensive to buy, probably about three for eight pound, expensive as ever. So we're
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going to learn about taking some cuttings and this is how you do it
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Again, this is a raspberry cane. These bits down the side are called nodes
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I'll grind down it. In fact, I think this one's dead so we won't be using that one
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but we'll use this one as we know it's alive and this one
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a lot of them are alive to be honest I put them into soil so that they wouldn die so let us get one of these to start So right I got myself this raspberry cane and I know it definitely a lie as it got some green buds growing on it So what we going to do is just chop it off
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at the root down at the bottom. I'm going to chop the root bit off
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just like that. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to cut in diagonals like that. That's
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one. That's two. And then I'm just going to chop that top bit off of this one. And that's
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three so I've got three raspberry canes and we're gonna try and see if we can get these to grow
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so on to the next one again with a bangle-long cane
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chop the root bit off at the bottom and then I'm going to chop one two
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three four I'm just going to chop the top bit off at the top like that so
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four raspberry canes from one. So I'm going to continue with this and get the
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rest done and I'll show you how about potting them all up. The plants from just about five
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stems what I've grown so now we've got to pot them all up. We're now ready to get them all
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potted up and get growing up. So what I'm using are deep plant pots as the roots are quite longer
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than when they get growing so I want deep plant pots and I'm gonna fill them up
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fill them up with compost and get them planted in there. I'm going to plant about
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two or three in each plant pot should be okay that as I not got loads of massive plant pots i don think i got 50 so two or three in each one so let get them started so i used a large plant pot
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like i said i've filled it about a third full uh i've used all compost from last year for my tomatoes
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uh it should be all right i don't want to be using brand new compost uh just for getting it started
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we'll see how they get on. So next up you need to grab your raspberry cane and
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just pop it in the bottom just like that and then same with the others. I'm going to put three in this one
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like that and then i can fill up the rest of the plant pot with compost to make sure
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that they stand up refilled up now all i need to do is just water it let's get cracking
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about the rest first i've got lots to do so all them are potted up just need to get them
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watered now so like i said before i've not done cuttings before so this is the first
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time that I've done them so it's a trial and error thing so if you are going to follow this
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and they die don't blame me don't blame the Yorkshire gardener but if they do then this is
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fantastic it'll save you having to buy them ever again and you can get a massive crop out of them
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hopefully so just got to keep them watered now until they take root before I can plant them out
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To join the other raspberries that I've got and then hopefully I'll have a hedge of raspberries
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So thanks for watching Today's how-to video on how to prune back raspberries and also how to take cuttings off raspberries
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