Your favorite Summer raspberry variety ?

[Losos]

Greetings all

Lots of threads on rasberries but not much on favorites. I want to order a Summer fruiting type, with large(ish) berries, and a very good sweet taste.

I have good sun in the morning but afternoons are in shade from a big tree nearby

Would love to hear from anyone who has had rasberries for several years.

I've become a tad disillusioned with the 'write ups' given in the fruit growers catalogues

All your thoughts most welcome

[FB.]

As I mentioned on another thread last week: I've tried lots of raspberry varieties over the last 10-15 years and the only ones which remain alive are Autumn Bliss and Fallgold.

Mother nature made the choice for me.

[veggiechicken]

Losos, I've added "summer" to your thread title as you're not interested in Autumn ones - more about them at https://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gr...n-j_98105.html

I prefer Autumn ones myself and they crop for months, taking over when the strawberries finish.

[Mark_Riga]

Again, I have autumn ones and cut the old canes down after the Spring crop. The Autumn crop is a little later then on the new canes. Fed well and looked after, you get a good crop of delicious raspberries in both Spring and Autumn. I've got both Joan J and Autumn Bliss and both do well with big berries. One has smooth canes and the other prickly but I don't know which is which. They do tend to send a lot of runners out of the row so need some work containing them. Might mean something when first 3 commentators prefer Autumn varieties.

[Losos]

FB - Thanks, at some point in the future I may (possibly) try Autumn varities
VC - Thanks for that link and also for modifying the title
Mark - Made me smile when you said all posters (so far) prefer Autumn varieties

I tried a Primocane blackberry (Reuben) and was disappointed so wanted to go back to good old 'standard' types, cut the old canes down in Autumn leave the new canes for next season. At my time of life I prefer the simple things, can't be doing with two crops a year and all that stuff

[veggiechicken]

Re pruning, I think Autumn raspberries are easier than summer as you cut out all the fruited canes in winter and they grow new ones to fruit in autumn.
Summer ones are fiddly because you'll have both old and new canes on the plant at the same time and have to choose which ones to leave for next year.

[It never rains..it pours]

Raspberry beetle becoming a pain here on my summer ones

[Losos]

Summer ones are fiddly because you'll have both old and new canes on the plant at the same time and have to choose which ones to leave for next year.

Yes, that is a good point, to be honest I would like an extended season but I'll need to make some room somewhere for Autumn variety and right now I don't have that space.

I assume you'll agree that growing summer & autumn varieties in the same trench is NOT a good idea, I imagine it could be a nightmare when it comes to cutting back

[veggiechicken]

I have some muddled up summer and autumn raspberries and I don't worry about which is which.
My pruning regime is simple:-

When its dead, cut it out
If its not, do nowt.

[Losos]

i have some muddled up summer and autumn raspberries and i don't worry about which is which.
My pruning regime is simple:-

when its dead, cut it out
if its not, do nowt. :d

yes, keep it simple, haha

[annie8]

I have double fruiting raspberries - called sugana. It produces summer and autumn fruit. Had a fantastic crop this year.

[veggiechicken]

As I understand it, Sugana is an Autumn fruiting raspberry but the fruited canes aren't cut out but left until the following summer when they carry another crop. Meanwhile, new canes are produced in spring to fruit in autumn.
I do this with Joan J as well, which is why I only cut out canes that are dead and leave the rest until the following year.

[annie8]

You might be right maybe they are autumn rasps. They are described in some places as double fruiting. But yes I’ll get summer fruit on this years canes and autumn fruit on the new canes. My only problem is that I never know how much to cut the current cropping canes back by. I need to cut back a bit as they get stupidly long otherwise and flip over. That’s what happened this year so am thinking I do need to cut a decent amount off although obviously not down to the ground as I would with normal autumn rasps.

[boundtothesoil]

I've grown many different summer fruiting varieties, rather stupidly, on the same plot for 25 years. My favourite on grounds of flavour, yield and appearance/conformation remains Malling Jewel by a long way, despite its increasing susceptibility to root rot. However, because my raspberry beds are very disease rich, few canes of any of the common (Glen/Malling) summer varieties last more than three years.

[Losos]

I have some muddled up summer and autumn raspberries and I don't worry about which is which.
My pruning regime is simple:-

When its dead, cut it out
If its not, do nowt.

Have had another look at the space available and have decided that I could just about clear a patch for some autumn fruiting type. I must admit that in deciding this I was influenced by the fact that my 'summer fruiting' varities will not produce anything until June / July 2020 had to ask will I still be around at that time