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| This everbearing variety bears fruit the first year. Produces light crop in spring, and a heavy crop in fall. |
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Landscape Uses, Planting and Care
- SITE: Raspberries simply require a sunny site in well-drained, slightly acidic soil. Avoid chalky and alkaline soils that can cause poor growth and yellowing leaves.
- MULCH: Essential for weed control and moisture conservation, hardwood chips and straw are the best choice for raspberries. Heavy commercial landscape fabric can also be used.
- FERTILIZER: Fruit production will benefit from being feeding plants twice a year. Compost or organic fertilizer should be spread in the row area once in the spring before growth begins in March, and once again in May.
- PRUNING: Raspberry canes are of two types, primocanes and floricanes. Primocanes are first year canes while floricanes are second-year fruiting canes. Summer red raspberries can be pruned twice a year, first in the spring and again after harvest. Spring pruning is done to remove weak canes and cut back tall canes to 4.5 - 5'. The second pruning involves removing canes that produced fruit immediately following the last harvest. Everbearing red raspberries can be pruned to produce fruit once or twice a year. If you follow the pruning methods used for summer red raspberries, they will produce fruit once in spring and once in fall. Some growers mow all canes to the ground in early spring to reduce work load and raspberries pruned this way will produce only one mid summer crop.
- SUPPORT: A trellis can help make the crop easier to manage and keep the canes off the ground so that berries are cleaner and easier to pick. A trellis can be constructed to support wires placed 2-3' apart and 36" high.
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