Disappointing raspberries

[veggiechicken]

Just to prove I have ripe (and mouldy) raspberries - I ate the ripe one after its photoshoot and it was hardly worth eating

[eirish]

Our (wild) strawberries are barely starting to ripen, and they're pretty disappointing so far - watery, mushy, tasteless.

[braders]

Ive been very lucky mine are so juicy and tasty and they are ripening faster than I can pick them see attached pic...

[Kestrel]

I ate the ripe one after its photoshoot and it was hardly worth eating

Feel for you. I, too, love raspberries and I have been fortunate that mine are abundant and tasty, especially in the last week or so when we've had some decent weather here to ripen them off.

[DuncanM]

To follow up on the straws as mentioned above, I have been harvesting mine for over 2 weeks (the normal and wild varieties) and the framberries in the past week. The wild straws have been delicious and fragrant, although I must say the framberries are the favourite of the three in this household.

[veggiechicken]

Thanks Kestrel! I've picked a dish full today and they'll be fine with tomorrow's breakfast. Just a few days of sunshine, that's all they need

[binley100]

I'm missing the raspberries off my old plot.......I have summer and autumn ones on my new plot but they've yet to become as productive .... I usually have a freezer full but it won't be this year .

[SarrissUK]

My raspberries have only just started ripening, and they're HUGE! The taste isn't what I had last year, but there's loads more unripe raspberries on there than I had at this time last year. Either way, they'll be used in baking or jam if the taste isn't good enough for eating fresh. The jam I made last year was so packed of flavour it was almost too much lol

[bearded bloke]

Well I hope all you lot that are getting ripe edible fruit are taking pic's,now is the time to be thinking about entries for the GYO virtual competition (later in the year,but never to early to start snapping )

[veggiechicken]

Fortunately, you can't tell that they're tasteless from a photo

[Peas'n'Kews]

Hmm... been eating rasps for a week or so now, and it was only when myself and a friend (the house elf!) picked from the front garden and the OH picked from the back garden that we realised the ones from the front were relatively tasteless and the ones from the back yummy!

But they are all edible and worth eating, or maybe its just that I am a raspberry glutton!

[Andrew0109]

My raspberrys are super nice my question is when i pull them off the branch they slide off whith a white cone shaped thingy underneth what is it? and do i leave that or pull it off?

[veggiechicken]

Just leave the white core on the plant - its the razzers that come away with the core that you need to be careful with - they may be maggoty inside. This damp weather seems to make it worse.

[Andrew0109]

Iv been lucky all of them have been great so this core what happens to it? does it grow more raspberrys or do it fall off eventualy? can you tell me why so of the leaves are yellow and brown? is it normal or an iron defficieny?ill post pics on wed and thanks for your advice.

[veggiechicken]

The white core is just a plug that the fruit forms around. When the raspberry is ripe it comes away cleanly from that plug. If you have to tug a raspberry away, its not ripe. It will not grow another raspberry and will just wither away. The fruit usually grow in clusters that ripen at different times so you will find fruit at all stage of development - as you can see in my photo at #16 above.
If you post some photos of your leaves someone here may be able to help you - probably not me as I'm clueless!