To help your raspberry plants thrive and produce a bumper crop each year, choose the best variety for your location, plant them in a suitable spot with plenty of sun, and prune them back in the ...

Prune canes that held fruit in summer ... Pick fruit regularly when it's firm. Pull the raspberries gently from the plant, leaving behind the plug that held it in place.

Pruning soft fruits at the right time ... conserve the plant's energy unless you want to propagate new plants. Summer-fruiting raspberries behave like blackberries, fruiting on one-year-old ...