How to grow raspberries?

Raspberries come in both summer and fall-fruiting varieties, which will allow you to enjoy sweet, tart berries from midsummer right through to the first frost. Raspberries are very easy to grow. Raspberries will take six to eight weeks from flowering to harvest. They are suitable for beds and containers. You can plant eleven plants per every nine feet roll and you can plant three plants in each container.

1. Getting started

If you plant summer-fruiting raspberries, the crop will come in from mid-to-late summer and the fall raspberries will fruit late summer to mid-fall, so you can plant both so you can have a longer harvest. If you are going to grow summer raspberries you will need to be planted against horizontal wires held sixteen inches and thirty-two inches about the soil.

Fall-fruiting varieties can be grown freestanding.

2. Planting

In the fall is the best time to plant new raspberry canes. They will be sold bare-root or root-wrapped. If they are root-wrapped, it is when they are lifted form the ground and they are bundled together with compost. Raspberries like moist soil but they like the soil to be free-draining. Raspberries will tolerate a little shade. During the fall, you will need to add a lot of well-rotted organic matter to your soil and you will need to let the ground settle for two weeks before planting. Put the canes twelve inches apart in rows at least three feet apart.

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Routine care

During the summer, raspberries need to be kept well-watered and you need to pally a tomato feed to get a good harvest. Put mulch or organic matter near the base of the canes to help retain moisture. As soon as you see fruits, you will need to protect them from birds. Cover the plants with a cage or netting, and you will need to put canes to help hold the netting down from snarling birds.

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Harvesting

Your raspberries are ready as soon as they turn red or yellow, and this is determine by the variety you are growing, and if it pulls easy leaving the central "plugs" behind. Do not pick on rainy days because wet fruit does not store well. Your plants need to be check daily so you will harvest them at the perfect time of ripeness.

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Summer Pruning

You will need to prune your summer-fruiting raspberries right after the last fruits have been harvested and you do this by cutting the fruited canes to the base. The younger, unfruited  stems that are produce during the summer needs to be tied to the wires in their place. Always keep the strongest one and tie them in four inches apart, to fruit next years.

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Winter pruning

You will need to pruned your fall raspberries by cutting all of the canes all the way to the ground. To have a staggered harvest, you will need to cut a few canes down by one half their height in winter. The  half-height canes will produce an earlier crop in early to midsummer. Then after harvesting the fruited canes can be pruned out completely.

Four Different Raspberries

Joan J this is a fall fruiting plant that is spine-free and it is one that  is compact and they will be suitable to grow in containers.

All gold this raspberry is a fall variety and they have yellow fruits.

Cascade Delight it is summer raspberry that is free-fruiting and they have large, rich-tasting raspberries.

Tulamee this one is a summer variety that fruits over several weeks during the summer. It is a good choice for cooler areas.