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Blackberries and raspberries (excluding red raspberries, which have a different growth habit and pruning schedules) should have their fruit-bearing canes tip-pruned back in late winter to control ...
When to Stop Pruning Trees. The last time you should cut your trees back for the year depends largely on the types of trees you’re working with. For example, ...
Regulatory pruning: This is carried out on the tree as a whole, and is aimed at keeping the tree and its environment healthy, e.g., by keeping the centre open so that air can circulate; removing dead or diseased wood; preventing branches from becoming overcrowded (branches should be roughly 50 cm (20 in) apart and spurs not less than 25 cm (10 ...
Raspberry plants should not be planted where potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, or bulbs have previously been grown, without prior fumigation of the soil. These crops are hosts for the disease Verticillium wilt , a fungus that can stay in the soil for many years and can infest the raspberry crop.
Depending on the species, many temperate plants can be pruned either during dormancy in winter, or, for species where winter frost can harm a recently pruned plant, after flowering is completed. In the temperate areas of the northern hemisphere autumn pruning should be avoided, as the spores of disease and decay fungi are abundant at this time ...
The plants are summer tipped by hand, mechanically pruned in winter and then machine harvested. The yields are generally low per acre and this is why the fruits are often expensive. The species has been used in the breeding of many Rubus hybrids ; those between red and black raspberries are common under the name purple raspberries; 'Brandywine ...
Evergreen grasses should be pruned to shape and have dead growth removed throughout the year, says Cimino. “Deciduous bunch or spreading grasses can be cut down to the ground or shaped for new ...