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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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