Fruit Trees and Berries

Fell behind this year
Lots of storm damage clean up from that heavy wet snow we had. Question,is it too late to prune? I have a couple of plum trees that could really is it! Thanks.

4 apple a few grapes and a nice raspberry patch. Putting in 3 peach trees in a couple weeks, when they arrive.

I pruned all of my fruit trees and raspberries over the weekend. I have 3 apple trees, 1 pear tree, a peach tree (new last year) and probably a dozen or so raspberry bushes, some are June bearing and others are ever bearing but I can't tell the difference.

Dug up and moved a row of black raspberries and planted a few plugs of blackberries. 

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I have 3 Apple, 1 Plum, 2 Grape vines.  I also work part time for the township. I know where and when to gather more from right of ways. This comes in handy as I am semi-retired and found a new hobby for preserving these fruits. It's called Wine.  

I have ever bearing plants and cut all the canes down to about 6". I do it in the  winter when dormant. Been doing this for years and seems to work well. 

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I grow Heritage which is an fall/everbearing raspberry. ​

budman depending on the variety last year's canes is what produces this year's fruit. fall bearing is different than june bearing, cut those down to the ground, leaving only a little bit for the canes to grow from, similar to trimming roses bushes (they are in the same family).  I have both ever bearing and june bearing so I leave the june bearing (which usually don't produce til July though, at least mine don't), and prune the ever bearings close to ground level.

What do u mean by cut back raspberries? Removing all the dead canes? I have a pretty large producing patch in my back yard. Last year I burned the whole thing in early spring not sure if that was the right thing to do or not?

I pruned my apple trees last week and also cut back all my raspberries, I agree that they will be waking up early this year, just look how early the maple sap is running.

I usually do it mid - late February. 

Anytime there dormant. I pruned ours in December during the mild weather.

​When does everyone start trimming their fruit trees, or have they done it already?  I typically start in March, but this year the trees will be waking up a little earlier than usual.

Fall raspberries are just starting. Honeycrisp apple tree I lost most of the apples this year it produced in several wind storms.  Harvested 3 that's it! The mystery apple tree has about 8 apples on it. Not many, but they're really good once they're ready.  They aren't ready until after a frost though.  Very tart until frost, then they're real sweet once the skin turns more yellow.  I have no idea what this apple type is. I think it's the root stock of the original tree that the main branch to it died when I bought the tree. It was supposed to be a dwarf jonathan tree, but instead I get golden delicious looking apples, but I know they're NOT golden delicious.

Good to know, will try this year.  They eat the heck out of our grapes, raspberries, beans and filbert trees.  Someone tell the authorities that H E L L is not fowl language...