Anne Yellow Raspberry Plant

I have mine in a extra large cloth pot with pebbles at the bottom. After the second year I noticed a runner coming out from underneath the pot, but it could be from my heritage red raspberries that are in a pot up against my anne raspberries. Either way, it's because I put them in cloth pots. While the cloth pots are great for drainage, runners are the risk you take. And since mine are in their forever spot in my yard, I don't mind. I bought frost fabric for them and carefully wrapped all three pots up together in late autumn and they did great over the winter (I live in zone 7a).

Susey, it depends on what you want to do with the raspberries. This type of raspberry will provide two crops per year if you want. It will have berries on last year's canes in the spring, around early June, and then those canes will die. In the spring should see new hrowth at the base of.last year's canes. The new canes will fruit in late summer and then again next spring as second year canes (see above). If you cut everything to the ground in the fall, you will only get one crop off the new canes in the fall. Generally speaking, I prefer two crops for home use. You will get berries almost the entire summer. Single crop works better for commercial and farmer's market use since the harvest time is predictable.

If you are going for the two crop option, prune last year's canes in the early spring. Just cut the dead and for control. The more you cut, the fewer berries. After you harvest the spring berries and the canes die, you can cut them to the ground.

If you are going for single harvest, just cut them to the ground in the fall.

Plant away! Roots are a maximum of 10 inches. Very shallowly rooted.

My best protection has been to buy motion sensor sprinklers and set up a perimeter around my garden beds. You can get them on Amazon - you just set the sensitivity, hook them up to a hose, and forget about them. I never lost a plant to a deer after setting them up. I also didn't have to put in fencing, which was nice. The ones I have operate with 9v batteries.

In Zone 9, it's best if this plant can get some late-afternoon shade. This is considered a low-chill variety and is rated to do well in Zone 9. Chill hours for berries are different than tree fruit and are calculated as an average; the growing zone rating is a better guide for berries.

They have very tiny hairlike thorns on canes and some under leaves. If you grab onto the canes barehanded you could get a few tiny pricks but you would use gloves when you are working with them. I will admit I've handled them without. No gloves needed for picking. My kids and neighbor kids pick from them all the time.

I have recently changed how I raise raspberries. I also use the raised bed technique. Two plants should fit fine in the 2'x4' bed. I would suggest keeping 2.5 feet between the bushes. I have found that gives them enough room for the roots but also enough air circulation around the canes as they grow. Good luck and enjoy.

Yes, just like other raspberry plants.

Once your raspberry plants have put on enough growth (which may not be until after their first year with you), aim to prune in the early spring, just as new growth emerges.

Prune young canes back until they are around 4 to 5 feet tall. This will discourage overgrowth and shading and will improve fruit production and quality.
Completely prune back and remove all skinny, dead, damaged, diseased or otherwise weak canes. As your raspberry plants mature, it is recommended that you cut back the small, thin canes to leave only about 8 to 10 of the strongest ones.

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Some varieties, such as Purple Royalty, just grow taller than others. My Heritage plants are somewhat shorter than my others. A little shade and a little crowding probably isn't harmful. Canes that grew this year will make berries next year, so don't cut them down. Next year more canes will grow which will make berries the following year, and so on. In early spring remove the dead canes (if it's their first spring there won't be many) and nip 3 or 4 inches, or more if necessary, off each tip. I'm in zone 5 and every yellow cultivar I've tried hasn't been hardy enough, though Anne survived the longest and the berries she made were marvelous.