raspberry that thinks its a apple tree help

[alan4heidi]

Hi, been away for a few days I need some help with the raspberry bushes that we bought 3 weeks ago [ only three of them] please see photo , as you will see the bush has 4 or 5 old shoots that had been cut back by the nursery, these are about 6 inches long and look dead. do I need to cut back the other shoots as well [the ones with leafs on] or am I supposed to leave them alone. thank you alan

[veggiechicken]

I would leave them, Alan.

Glen Lyon is a summer fruiting raspberry and should fruit on the young canes that are there now.
The nursery have cut down the canes that fruited this year.

[alan4heidi]

Thank you, that makes sense. gardening is a new hobby for me at 83, before this it was all live steam engines but they don't grow on trees

[veggiechicken]

Now you're talking Alan!! I'm from the age of steam too
When I was a lot younger, my kid brother and his friends would take me train spotting with them. My job, as a little girl in a frock, was to ask the engine driver if I could "cab" his engine. Of course he was say Yes and, as I climbed up into the cab, my brother and his little friends would rush past me into the cab. Poor driver!
My Mum would send us out clean in the morning and I'd return covered in coal dust and smoke smuts.
Fond memories
How about you?

[Snadger]

My Dad was a railwayman in the age of steam. You've never lived until you've had a chargemans breakfast cooked on a shovel in the firebox of the engine.!

[Nicos]

Cor...I just about snuck into the age of steam....fond memories of standing on a bridge ( called 'stoney bridge' cos it was actually a cinder track rather than tarmac) ...as the train passed beneath whilst holding my breath!

Sometimes a spark would land on my cardie and I'd blow it gently to see if I could kindle it!!!

Talking of cinders....I'm sure I still have some embedded in my knees!

Enjoy your raspberries next year!

[BUFFS]

Cor...I just about snuck into the age of steam....fond memories of standing on a bridge ( called 'stoney bridge' cos it was actually a cinder track rather than tarmac) ...as the train passed beneath whilst holding my breath!

Sometimes a spark would land on my cardie and I'd blow it gently to see if I could kindle it!!!

Talking of cinders....I'm sure I still have some embedded in my knees!

Enjoy your raspberries next year!

Those were the days, sitting on the bankside as the london/glasgow express zoomed past at top speed, and going home looking like rejects from an old black and white minstrel show that plagued our Sundays for years..

[alan4heidi]

thank you all for replies, but what about my raspberry bushes ??

[Nicos]

See post #2!

Spot on