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My plants are producing very many more new canes than I imagine is suitable. Each plant has 20 to 30. I am wondering if I would be wise to thin these to a respectable number?

Thanks

Personally I wouldn't.

Give them a good mulch with well rotton manure or compost, and get the cream and Merangue ready.

Apart from cutting down canes at appropriate times we haven't thinned out our raspberry bed for years yet each time we seem to get more and more fruit so I wouldn't bother.

Sue

boboff wrote: and get the cream and Merangue ready.

drool!

My Raspberries have produced lots of new fruiting canes, I've mulched (and watered! ) and they look like they are doing fairly well.

Hope you get a bumper crop, and we get a downpour soon..

Lorna x

In a commercial setting you'd thin to 6 or 7 canes per stool.

I thin out my autumn raspberries as I get far more fruit, otherwise it's just a jungle of canes and leaves packed too closely together and production is far less, not to mention far more difficult to pick! I cut out the thinner more straggly canes. Think it depends how many years they have been in situ as to whether you feel the need to do it or not - mine are on year 6 and all growing into each other.