Geez, no answer for your climate, but my grandmother had wonderful raspberries
every year up here in the frozen north, and what she'd do, she'd cut them all
down short every late fall and up they'd come. These were not trailing
raspberries, they were just regular bushes.
AK
{ brad brace } wrote:
> I am growing trailing raspberries and have a problem each year with canes
> not surviving the mild winter in Georgia. I train the strongest new canes
> to a two wire trellis as they grow during the summer. Old canes are
> removed after fruiting. Each spring the last 50% of most canes are dead.
> I have a bed where I have planted tip rootings for some other beds I'm
> planning the they are allowed to trail along the ground during the winter
> and show no dead portions. Should I always wait until winter to train the
> canes?
>
> Thanks
