Plant Care

All the plants you have in your garden and also inside the house, should be cared for correctly. This will ensure you get the best displays and long-life from them.

Pruning Soft Fruit

It is very rewarding to be able to pick fruit from your own garden. Soft fruits are a good investment for smaller gardens where there may not be room for fruit trees.

Soft fruits are easy plants to grow and most can be trained to fit in confined or awkward spaces. They are long-lived and high-yielding, provided you prune them annually to replace aging stems and branches with younger, more vigorous growth.

Pruning is straight forward, and can be done in mid-summer or on a fine winter day.

Raspberries

Summer fruiting raspberries are similar to blackberries in their growing habit. They will fruit on one-year-old canes, which should then be cut out after harvesting. Being replaced by the young canes.

Autumn fruiting varieties require a slightly different management technique. They should be cut to the ground in late winter to make way for new canes that will grow from the base and fruit the same year.