doof, if you want an early summer crop, you can still prune the canes but only cut off the portion that fruited in the fall. That should be the part that's starting to look ratty. On my fall-bearing raspberries I've been eating a few berries a day for the last week or so. They are all low to the ground and the canes with the early berries look pretty rough compared to all of the lush green growth on the new canes that are trying to crowd them out. I can definitely see why some folks just mow down the whole lot in the fall because getting these early berries is more of a hassle. But for me, who just planted my only 8' bed last year. I want every berry I can get as soon as I can get it. I've heard that the fall crop is about 10X the early crop. Motria, when and how do you prune, perhaps that is interfering with your production.

Wait for them to go dormant. Right now, the leaves are gathering energy and storing it in the root system for the winter. Your plants will survive the winter better and come back stronger in the spring if you wait and cut them when they are dormant.

Is there someone in the GTA area who has some spare everbearing rasperry plants, such as "Heritage" or "Taylor"? I would love to prolong our raspberry season this way. I have many raspberry plants in my garden, all one variety, certainly not the everbearing variety. We eat ourselves silly in July and also freeze them, but then its over except for a few in late fall, but usually these late berries don't get a chance to ripen. Can offer a trade with the variety I have, or some other plant.

i am very interested in tamora rose or any ausin roses (preferable yellow ones), does anyone have any cuttings to send out for postage or exchange for a raspberry plant...? please email me at wweng13@msn.com thanks. win