Raspberries are part of summer and should not be missing in any home garden. If you want to plant a raspberry bush, you should find out about the different harvest times. Yellow raspberries offer a delicious change from the classic red fruits.
Raspberries from your own garden are particularly delicious
summer raspberries
These varieties bear fruit on last year's shoots. Summer raspberries are once bearing and provide high yields. Their fruits have an intense taste. Since the shoots are in danger of breaking, summer raspberries often need support. The plants are comparatively susceptible to diseases and pests.
Recommended varieties:
- 'Malahat': dark red fruits ripen between June and July
- 'Willamette': frost-resistant variety with fruit ripening from June to July
- 'Meeker': fruits from late June to July
autumn raspberries
The varieties develop fruit on the one-year-old shoots, which ripen from August. They can be harvested until autumn. Autumn raspberries are radically pruned just above the ground each year, giving disease and pests poorer living conditions. These varieties can be pruned accordingly so that they bear fruit as early as summer.
- Popular autumn raspberries:
- 'Polka': from August to October fruits with an intense taste
- 'Autumn First': light red fruits between early August and late September
- 'Himbo-Top': small fruits between August and mid-October, highly aromatic
Yellow summer varieties
They develop fruit on the shoots formed the previous year. Therefore, they are cut like summer raspberries. The color and taste of these specialties differ from the typical raspberry varieties.
- 'Varnes': large orange-yellow fruits with a sweet taste
- 'Fallgold': very sweet raspberries, shrubs bear fruit twice a year in good weather
- 'Golden Queen': tasty variety with high yield and long harvesting time
Red summer varieties
Within this group there are early, mid-early and late-bearing varieties that develop their fruits before the autumn raspberries. This categorization is important because all species, like summer raspberries, require care. While the early varieties bear fruit as early as late May to early June, mid-early raspberries ripen between the end of June and mid-July. Late varieties develop their fruits until August.
- 'Malling Promise': early variety that develops long fruits
- 'Gradina': medium-early raspberry that produces good yields, suitable for exposed locations
- 'Schönemann': late variety with firm fruits and an aromatic taste, fast-growing