How to prepare your raspberry patch for summer | Gardening 101 | Gardening Australia

Hannah gets to work planning and planting a new patch of one of her favourite fruits, raspberries. Subscribe 🔔 http://ab.co/GA-subscribe

Hannah's getting her raspberry patch in order before summer. She’s prepping a bed to be her new raspberry patch. It’s in full sun, and there’s manure and compost in the soil. It’s mounded for improved drainage, and she’s experimenting with jute mat as a mulch.

Hannah’s planting a summer fruiting variety called “Chilcotin”, and they’ve come bare-rooted, so it’s important to get them into the ground ASAP. She’s also transplanting some canes over from her already established patch.

Summer fruiting raspberry canes only produce fruit once, and then die off. That’s the time to prune them. Keep canes that haven’t fruited yet. Canes can be differentiated by scratching back bark; green are still living and should be retained; brown means they can be removed. Plaiting canes can help keep them upright and separated.

Autumn fruiting varieties send up fresh growth every time, so can be cut down to ground after fruiting.

Hannah spaces her raspberry canes 30cm apart, and packs firmly to hold upright.

A woodchip border keeps weeds out and raspberry cane suckers in.

Featured Plant:
RASPBERRY ‘CHILCOTIN’ - Rubus cv.

Filmed on palawa Country | Hobart, Tas
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