[Market-farming] Raspberry varieties

Richard Robinson rrobinson at nasw.org
Mon Jul 14 15:13:37 EDT 2008


 On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:00:47 -0400, Bobbett wrote:
>
>> (We also grow two fall bearers, Caroline and Polana.)
>>
> btw, how do they do for you?  I have Heritage, Fall Gold, and Fall Red. I've
> not been impressed.

Caroline is superb--everything you want in a raspberry. Large and very flavorful berries, vigorous and highly productive plants. The terminal stems are a bit fragile, but otherwise they are great plants. The berries are susceptible to sun scald, but that's a feature, not a bug, as far as I'm concerned--sunscalded berries are intensely sweet, and my wife and I fight over them as we pick. Polana berries aren't as delicious, but nothing to complain about either. The yield is smaller, but the plants are very well-behaved--they grow stiffly upright, and hold their berries right up where you can get to them. They also bear from mid-August on, picking up even before summer-bearers are done. We don't do PYO, but if we did, I think Polanas would be the ideal choice.

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