Here's how to prune raspberries in the fall so the bush is bent over with berries next year, rather than standing green and empty. Agronomist Ivan Petrovich Zorin, with forty years of farming experience, works at the Zarya collective farm, and the Agricultural Research Institute. He explains in simple terms why the same pruning can yield a harvest for one bush, while leaving another without berries all summer long.

You'll learn how to distinguish summer-bearing raspberries from everbearing ones in two minutes, even without a tag or variety name. Learn when to prune raspberries in the fall, how many stems to leave per meter of row, and what mistake almost everyone makes immediately after pruning. Finally, a collective farm technique for large berries: double pruning of raspberries according to Sobolev.

Let us know in the comments: what kind of raspberries do you grow and how have you pruned them before?