[Market-farming] Speaking of raspberries

Bill Shoemaker wshoemak at inil.com
Mon Jul 21 13:37:35 EDT 2008


Actually, Fall-bearing raspberries will produce some summer fruit, unless they are mowed down completely in the dormant period. What makes them Fall-bearing is that the canes produced in the Spring (primocanes) will bear a crop in the Fall. The same canes, after going through the following winter, become floricanes and produce a summer crop as well. That's when they are described as everbearing raspberries. But when you let them become everbearing, the floricanes compete with the primocanes and the crops just aren't as good. You also need to do selective pruning to keep them as everbearing. Most people prefer to just mow down fall-bearing varieties at the end of Winter to keep them bearing just the fall crop. They grow summer-bearing types for the Summer crop, if they want to mess with it. I'm pretty sure there are gold varieties of both summer and fall bearing types.

Bill Shoemaker, Sr Research Specialist, Food Crops
University of Illinois - St Charles Horticulture Research Center
www.nres.uiuc.edu/faculty/directory/shoemaker_wh.html


  Well, my golds have been putting off fruit.I have not idea what kind they are.  Are there summer bearing gold one's out there?  My reds and purples are also putting out fruit now as well.  
   

  Thanks

  Courtney

   
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