My raspberry canes all but failed this year

[CuttedUpPear]

My previously well established (ten years) and fruiting bed of raspberries has bitten the dust this year. I have three rows about 10ft long, usually full of plants.

This year almost nothing came up. A few canes about a foot high with two or three berries on is all.

There have been a lot of canes emerging outside of the bed for a couple of years. I'd been trying to replant them into the main bed to fill in gaps but they haven't succeeded.

Does anyone else replace their raspberries every seven years as recommended? Or have you got tales for me of generations of fruiting canes giving luscious berries every season?

[NotAnotherNewNappy]

Mine fruited, but were full if caterpillars... Sorry, no advice on how long to keep them, it's only our third year.

[dementedma]

Runner bean crop amounted to about 6 beans!
Cheaper to buy from supermarket.

[2kidsintow]

I'm pretty sure that most of our canes are older than 7 years. We've lost a few canes over the last year or two so have filled a few gaps with some new plants this year. But we still had plenty of berries off the established canes.

[CuttedUpPear]

Everyone I know seems to have decades old canes.
I can't figure put what happened ...it's as if they all went for a walk out of the bed.

[MERLYPUSSEDOFF]

Mine went bonkers. I did chop them down to about 9'' form the ground when they had finnished fruiting last yr. They are over 6 yrs old as I moved them from my lotty when I had the twins. They keep sprouting runners which I leave in situ so I have a raspberry jungle rather than rows. And I have two varieties I think as one is smaller and earlier but I just treat them the same. Brutal.

[pigglepaggle]

We've had loads of raspberries this year.
Can anyone advise about pruning? We moved into this house last summer and I haven't touched the raspberry bushes which have gone a bit mad.

[Ferguson]

Try and find a dedicated raspberry or soft fruit site for more specialist advice.

Do they get mulched? Fed?

Maybe just old, and don't last for ever.

[Sweetpea33]

I have lost about 1/3 of mine this year at the allotment and it seems that this due to raspberry blight - virus. A couple of other plots had it last year and apparently there is no cure. It gets into the canes when you prune them and the only thing you can do is to lift the canes including the roots and burn them. You then need to grow raspberries in a different area as the blight remains in the soil for a number of years. Hope you don't have this problem too .....