Fruit lovers are in their glory in spring time, with berries of several kinds decorating their landscape. Generally, however, the party's over by mid summer.
Fall-bearing raspberries come to the rescue. Sometimes called everbearing raspberries, they produce berries from July until cold weather.
If you plant an everbearing bush in June, you could harvest some fruit in the fall of the first year. You will need a substantial trellis to hold up the canes, which can grow up to six feet tall.
As with other raspberries, the canes of evergrowers last two years. While the canes are producing fruit, new canes that will bear fruit the following year are growing.
Canes that have produced the current year's crop of raspberries should be cut to the ground as they die off in late fall or in winter.
The new canes may produce a few raspberries the first year and grow tall by the season's end. They should be cut back to the point where they bore fruit.
There is one easier way to prune: Cut the entire plant to the ground each winter. That takes less effort than reducing the size or new canes and cutting out old ones.
Rick Good spent ten years in the newspaper business, including with The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) and The Greenville News (Greenville, SC). He co-wrote, with Melinda Coleman, Rutledge to Riley: Governors of South Carolina, 1776–Present (Published by The Greenville News), and is the author of Mind Games Trivia #1 (Amazon). He has recently spent 15 years creating original trivia content through Sounds Good Mobile Entertainment and continues that with his new company, SGME Software. He edits The Smart Reader’s money, real estate, and business coverage.