Raspberries should be planted in early spring.
Recommended Raspberry Varieties for Pennsylvania of the Penn State Extension Home Fruit Garden website.
Because pruning raspberries is crucial.Īn overview of recommended raspberry varieties for Pennsylvania can be found on Table 7.1. If you don’t, it will be very difficult to identify them and prune them properly. Keep the two types in separate rows or groups. If you plant both summer-bearing and fall- bearing types, you should not interplant them. Fall-bearing raspberries are also called “everbearing” because you can prune them in a way that they provide a small summer crop on the canes from the previous year, and a larger fall crop. Fall-bearing raspberriesīear fruit on this year’s green canes (primocanes) and therefore you can expect fruit the first year. This biennial life cycle determines the way summer-bearing raspberries need to be pruned, which is discussed below. This year’s green canes (primocanes will bear fruit the next year. Have two types of canes: woody and brown canes (floricanes) from the previous year that bear fruit from late June to August and then die. Keep in mind that the canes, also known as brambles, of the two varieties have different life cycles: Summer-bearing raspberries There are two types of raspberries: summer-bearing raspberries, also called “regular” raspberries, and fall-bearing raspberries, also referred to as “everbearing” raspberries. Raspberries come in four different colors – red, black, purple, and gold.
If you harvest more than you can eat, you can freeze them for later use in pies or fruit salads, or turn them into delicious jams and jellies.Raspberries don’t ship and keep well so nothing compares to your own freshly picked raspberries.Store-bought raspberries are expensive, and, unless you buy organic, they are likely to be loaded with pesticides.
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