Pruning Brambles 



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Black raspberries, or back-caps as they are sometimes 

 called, are pruned quite like the blackberry. The new 

 canes are pinched at a couple of feet from the ground to 

 make them branch out, and these laterals are cut back 

 about half in late winter or before growth begins in the 



Dewberry canes trained to a post, 

 canes in a hill. 



From three to five 



