I've planted some everbearing raspberry bushes next to the cyclone fence in my apartment's back yard, which borders on a 10, 15-foot slope of a grassland in a wildlife refuge. The bushes acted very thirsty, and wouldn't put out many blossoms and zero berries. I then put organic fertilize on them and watered them a lot for a while, during summer, and still nothing. I planted the first plant two years ago, the second last year,and a bunch of secondary shoots (suckers?) came up along the fence and in the grass in front of the raspberry bed. All the instructions I've read on how to prune them read like Greek to me. My boy friend and I had a huge, well-established raspberry patch on his property in Wisconsin when I lived there. We just mulched the bushes and pulled the wild grapevines out, and had muchas raspberries. What needs to happen? They get plenty of sun.