The best tips for how to grow raspberries in your own backyard.
Easy methods for planting, caring for, and harvesting raspberries when home gardening.
A border of raspberries around a vegetable garden can be an effective thorny barrier against intruders.
(Unless you plant a thornless variety, in which case you will only have a delicious vegetable garden border!)
There are two types of raspberry plants--summer-bearing and ever-bearing (sometimes called fall-bearing).
You will want to decide which type of raspberry plant will work best in your garden setting.
Taste test local raspberry plants to decide which variety is your favorite before purchasing plants or root stalk.
Red raspberries, and black raspberries, also known as blackcaps are the most common types of raspberry.
Thornless Canby is a midseason variety that grows extra large, bright red raspberries.
No thorns make picking the firm beauties even more of a pleasure.
Heavy yields supply you with all the berries you need for freezing, cooking, and desserts.
Ideal for zones 5-8.
Brandywine grows a big, fine quality berry of wine-red, purple color.
Their delicious flavor does not fade when freezing or canning, so don't eat all the produce straight off the vine!
Good selection for zones 3-8.
Amber is a midseason raspberry that grows an exceptional yellow fruit.
This tremendous bearer produces large, firm, yellow-colored berries in zones4-8.
Logan bears extra large black raspberries.
The plant yields crops every year in zones 3-8 and succeeds on all kinds of soil.
Heritage is an everbearing variety with upright canes that require no support.
The plants come on early loaded with sweet, juicy berries.
Suited for zones 4-8, this type will produce two big crops a year.
Wild brambles host diseases to which the raspberry might succumb.
Himalaya berry plants can spread anthracnose to raspberries.
Potatoes and raspberries are both killed or injured by verticillium wilt, so do not plant these crops close together.
Birds just love to eat raspberries.
Therefore, you will find that the most common animal pest for growing raspberries is birds.
A barrier that is to be successful at keeping out raspberry robbers must completely surround the plants, as the birds are sure to find any opening.
Drape fabric or plastic netting over the raspberry bushes using a support to hold the netting away from the bush so the birds cannot reach any of the fruit.
Mylar streamers, or scare-eye balloons will also help scare birds away, but to continue to be effective they must be moved around frequently.
Another method for protecting your berries from the bird plunderers is to build a tepee using poles, pipes, or lumber constructed over the raspberry patch.
Cover the structure with a net. Be certain to leave an entryway for yourself!
At last we are to the best part of how to grow raspberries!
Harvest berries when they slide easily off the small white core.
Pick using a small container so the berries on the bottom do not get crushed.