Tayberry: cropping mid-summer.
I bought a very sick looking tayberry two years ago. With much tlc it produced 4 very long shoots last year, but did not flower and fruit. There are no signs of new shoots at the moment. Do I cut these old shoots down to ground level? I am a bit worried as they cannot really be called old fruited canes.
Di Willis
Tayberry during the winter, with new canes trained onto wires.
Photographs courtesy of Adrian Baggaley; see also comment below by Adrian.
For more on the Tayberry see our main web-site: The Origin of the Tayberry by Derek Jennings, who raised this fruit and The Glorious Tayberry by Ian Harrison, a great admirer of the tayberry.
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