Growing Raspberries - How to Grow
Raspberry Bushes or Plants
Growing Raspberries is Easy and Fun!
Here at Raspberry Depot you will find EVERYTHING you need to know about growing this delectable fruit!
Our family has grown raspberry plants for many years, including several years during which we harvested and sold them at a roadside stand. It provided great summer employment for our children, and proved to be berry fun and profitable for them too!
You do not need to have a garden plot, or own a large property to grow your own raspberries. In addition to growing berry plants in a garden, many people choose to grow raspberry plants along a property fence line, or along the side of a patio, or a patio deck, or as a privy hedge. Like strawberry plants, the raspberry plant is one of the quickest fruits to crop. They bear a reasonable amount of berries in the second year, and a full cropping thereafter. A good average yield is about 1 1/2 to 2 pounds per foot of run. Raspberry plants grow best in full sun. They only require extra watering if the growing season is extremely dry. Raspberry plants are quite hardy and require very little care, and provide a very welcome harvest of nutritious berries. The raspberry plant is a type of perennial, and as such they are "self propagating". This means that if you plant a row of raspberry plants starting with, for example, six raspberry plants, within a few years time you will have yourself a nice row of raspberry bushes. These plants will provide you with many scrumptious, fresh raspberries. You will probably have too many berries to use "fresh", so you can either share with family, friends, or neighbours, or you can freeze raspberries. Raspberries are easy to freeze, and they can be used at a later time for baking raspberry pies, cookies and bars, muffins, raspberry cake and more. Or, use them to make raspberry ice cream, sorbet, raspberry drinks or make a delectable, mouth-watering raspberry sauce. Although it may be possible to grow raspberries from seed, it is most common to grow raspberries from plants. Depending on the variety of raspberry plant, raspberries are usually harvested once a year. (Some varieties provide more than one harvest). For more detailed information about growing raspberry plants, here follow links to pages which will be helpful in your berry growing endeavours!
Have fun growing raspberries!
Home grown berries taste so much better than purchased berries!
GO to PLANTING Raspberry PlantsGO to TRANSPLANTING RED Raspberry Plants
(Propagating/Dividing RED Raspberry Plants) GO to PROPAGATING BLACK and PURPLE Raspberry Plants GO to Raspberry VARIETIES GO to Raspberry Plant CARE
(Fertilizing/Watering/Spraying/Sun Requirements for Raspberry Plants) GO to HARVESTING Raspberries GO to PRUNING Raspberry Plants GO to Raspberry PESTS GO to Raspberry DISEASES GO to ORGANIC Raspberries
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