The strong shoots should then be tied to supports.Take out smaller and awkwardly positioned growth. Reduce the new canes to the six strongest shoots, Monty recommends.It's these new canes that carry next summer’s crop, he reminds us. Gardener Monty Don (opens in new tab) focuses on the color of canes when he's pruning raspberries: it's the brown ones that need to be cut down to the ground, he says, with the fresh green canes left standing. Once summer-bearing (floricane) raspberries have finished cropping, cut the fruited canes back to near ground level, says the experts at Amateur Gardening.You might also want to have a trowel or a spade to hand, in case you need to dig up suckers. You'll also need a pair of the best secateurs, and perhaps some of the best loppers, too.

Garden expert Monty Don's growing picks include 'Malling Jewel', 'Glen Ample', and 'Glen Moy'.īefore you get started, you may prefer to wear gardening gloves when pruning raspberries, to protect your hands from their often prickly stems. There are plenty of summer-fruiting raspberries to choose from. (Image credit: Future) How to prune summer-bearing raspberries

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