Raspberry

Raspberry plants are winter hardy and propagate almost invasively. Raspberry flowers are a major source of nectar for honeybees and pollinators. Fruits feed birds. Grow different cultivars for harvests of raspberries all summer. Raspberries come in red, purple and yellow with the latter being the sweetest. Plants readily fruit in big quantities, a short time after they are planted. Everbearing primocane raspberry varieties bear a harvest early to mid summer and a considerably larger crop in autumn. Fruit is produced on canes that come up each year. You can mow canes to the ground at the end of the season. Summer bearing floricanes produce one crop of raspberries in a season on last year's canes. Prune out fruiting canes at the end of the season. Make preserves, dry and freeze your raspberries for winter. Plant in full sun for optimum yield.