eck, I've no idea! Joan Js will carry on fruiting from mid-July to frost, a few each week, and are large misshapen berries with a distinctly different flavour to summer 'July-only' berries. They are also a darker red.

You'll know if they are - the Glen Amples are fruit-once-in-one-go jobbies, so if you don't get any more, then I gave you them! If they keep on growing new flowers then new berries, they're Joans. They grow sideshoots then more flowers then berries and (rinse and repeat).

moonbells

Confused now ... think I will have to go take piccies ... thay have very dark fruit and are producing side shoots too ...

... oh and the taste is yummy

Anyone knows when to prune the early rasp.? Is it kinda now? Sorry could look it up but thought I'd ask first

It's obvious you're all very interested so looked it up and it's as soon as they've finished fruiting Which was last month

it's really only because that's the best way to determine which ones fruited (so you don't massacre next years canes by mistake)

I'm sure soonish will be just fine

Sorry Dom but I know bugger all about rasps. I just cut the dead bits off. They sort of go all rotten and kind of fall off. Maybe they're dead

I'll be interested next year when I've actually got some

I'm pruning them this afto After I've been to the veggie show that is, our lottie lot

oooh I wish we had a veggie show. Have a good time Dom

Wardy - have a last-minute one harvest festival-type show and invite the press, and get the council leader to open it.

More embarrassing publicity

moonbells

good thinkin Can't embarrass that lot of brass faced sods

I'm gonna transplant a load when they drop their bits..

I picked a 2ltr tub today and ate most of them smushed up with icing sugar and lime juice. Yummy

the leaves....?

aaah... that ...

tis obviously a very technical term