Winter/Spring Bramble Chores

SPRING/SUMMER BRAMBLE CHORES
Gina Fernandez, Small Fruit Specialist
Vernon G. James Research and Extension Center
207 Research Station Rd
Plymouth NC 27962
252-793-4428 x167
Email:Gina_Fernandez@ncsu.edu

Here is a brief summary of chores for the next few months to prepare your brambles for the upcoming growing season. If you have any questions give me a call.

PRUNING
-Should be completed by early spring
-Fall Bearing Raspberries: Fall bearing (actually mid to late summer for most of us in NC) raspberries fruit at the top of the current season's canes ("primocanes"). The simplest way to manage these varieties is to mow them off at ground level during the dormant season. Be sure to mow them off close to the ground so that new shoots come from the roots and not from lateral buds on cane stumps.
-Blackberries and summer fruiting raspberries. These types of brambles bear fruit on second year canes. During the winteίΔ–

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