Along with strawberries, sweet raspberries are one of the most popular summer fruits. They are easy to grow yourself. With the right choice of variety, you can even harvest raspberries several times a year.

Grow summer raspberries or autumn raspberries?

Summer raspberries and autumn raspberries differ in care and harvest time. While the summer varieties mature earlier, the autumn varieties take two months longer.

But the care of autumn raspberries is much less complicated. While only the two-year-old shoots are cut from the summer raspberry, remove the canes from the autumn raspberries completely.

Autumn raspberries are largely maggot-free, as the raspberry beetle no longer lays any eggs during the flowering period. In addition, late varieties do not suffer from cane disease, which affects only perennial shoots.

Benefits of Summer Raspberry

  • She matures earlier
  • Higher crop yields

Benefits of Autumn Raspberry

  • Hardly any maggot infestation
  • No failures due to rod disease
  • Easy pruning
  • Bears fruit in the first year

Growing tips

The cultivation of the two main varieties does not differ significantly.

Raspberries need a sunny, airy spot in rich, very loose soil. Although they also thrive on nutrient-poor soil, the harvest is then smaller.

Plant the raspberries in rows or create a raspberry hedge. Provide a suitable scaffolding to which you can tie the rods.

The best planting time

Raspberries should be planted in autumn. The roots have time to strengthen over the winter.

Raspberry bushes can also be planted in spring. However, it then takes a year longer until the first summer raspberries are ripe. The harvest of autumn raspberries will be smaller if they are not planted until spring.

Observe planting distance

Don't put raspberries too close together. The distance between the individual bushes should be at least half a meter.

A planting distance of 1.20 to 1.50 meters between the rows is ideal. This allows you to harvest the shrubs well and avoid compacting the soil too much by walking on it.

tips and tricks

If you are a big raspberry lover, consider growing summer and fall raspberries. Then you will always harvest new fruit from July until the onset of frost. An alternative are two-timer raspberries, which produce two harvests.

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Vegetable garden