Subject: Re: Wanted: Rasp/Black berry recommendations

From: [email-masked] (Cat Yron)
Date: 17 Jun 1994 01:47:02 -0400

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (Mike
Reinhart) asks for raspberry recommendations:

I wrote an article on this last year and in the course of my research
i spoke to about a dozen raspberry growers from around the country.
The one variety that did best in the widest range of clime and soil
conditions was HERITAGE. I grow it and like it a lot. It is not an
old variety (it dates from the 1960s), but it is so adaptible that at
this time 90% of all commercially grown raspberries sold in the u. S.
(including imports from Chile, a major commercial raspberry center)
are HERITAGE. I was prepared to dislike it for this reason -- i tend
to favour older, "underdog" varieties -- but the truth is that it
beats the three others i have (LATHAM, an unnamed older cultivar
given to me by a local gardener, and a selected wild raspberry i dug
up on a trip to the woods). It tastes every bit as good as the wild
berry, which is my standard of excellence. The fruit is larger than
LATHAM or the unnamed cultivar. I am in Zone 9, marginally too warm
for raspberries, and it does just FINE. 

Good luck

catherine yronwode

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From: [email-masked] (Cat Yron)
Date: 22 Jun 1994 04:26:02 -0400

In article <[email-masked]>,
[email-masked] (Shih-Tung Ngiam) writes:

<Are there any varieties that will fruit within the same year?  I am
<growing in a community garden so I can't leave plants in place from
<year-to-year.  
<Shih Tung

Well, you will get some fruit the first year if you transplant plants
from gallon pots into the ground, but raspberries give the most fruit
when they are from three to ten years old. (After then you can divide
them and give them fresh soil.) But they DO grow and fruit well in
fifteen gallon containers, which you can move around. Even
five-gallon cans should allow for some maturation of the plants. Try
it! Tell us how it works. 
cat