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  • From: Richard Robinson <rrobinson AT nasw.org>
  • To: "bobbett AT alltel.net, Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Raspberry varieties
  • Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:13:37 -0400

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.

--
Richard Robinson
http://www.nasw.org/users/rrobinson/







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