yes I agree they freeze really well and the harvests keep us in rasps all year. I freeze them in small plastic takeaway cartons they stack really well and just take when required.
my summer rasps are Glen Ample and too follow are Autumn Bliss, which are coming along sweet
this has been my best return yet and it may be down to the six inches of quality cow manure I put on and around the plants earlier this year
My Glen ample are only in their second year, we had a crop this year but not huge. Polka cropped last year in its first year and has triple the canes this year. Mine has a sprinkling of BFB , and a top dressing of well rotted fym, a mix of cows on straw and horse on wood shavings, not that you can tell, it's so well composted it looks like peat.
My single Glen Coe, struggling, not as good as its publicity.
Terry Louise is not sold anywhere now, mine are old canes, they do have a tendency to run.Mine have run out of the old raspberry patch, under a path, and coming up on the boundary between a path, and a slabbed area with the polytunnel on.
I planted some Autumn Bliss canes, I think it was spring 2014. One died by the end of 2014, in 2015 they were growing but nothing much and a bit straggly, but this year they are looking incredible! They are enormous and bushy, about 1.5m high at least!
Autumn Bliss have started fruiting really well and fruit is now ready to pick daily so it's important you pick before they spoil or feathered friends start.
I don't mind sacrificing some to the birds as the harvest yeild is huge and I am freezing in boxes to save for better times as you can only eat so many daily
Todays pickings are fab and the raspberries are so big and hold shape really well
Looking at lifting some rouge rooters and planting on the perimeter of the garden to get more for next year. I say more maybe have to get a bigger fridge however the price you are charged for a punnet at the supermarket is scandal so I won't ever buy again as long as I have an allotment
I have autumn raspberries which have grown very tall and been blown over by wind. I didnt stake and tie them as was advised no need to do so with autumn raspberries. They have fruited in august ! What did i do wrong ? I didnt think they would grow so tall
My autumn raspberries always fruit in August - getting a lovely crop now, some for breakfast some for supper and lots in the freezer and more to pick this morning - but they're planted in the ground against a fence and as they grow I loop plastic covered wire around them to hold them against the fence so they don't get blown about.
Raspberries grow tall and in pots they're likely to be top-heavy. Have you got them in heavy loam-based compost? And they do need something to tie them up to - I'd put the pot against a fence or post and put some gardener's twine around them to hold them up.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
My Autumn ones are also fruiting now. The variety is "All gold"
They are growing beside my plastic greenhouse, I made a grid frame with bamboo canes and clips and simply tie them in with twine as they grow to give extra support.
Early on this year I covered my raspberry both summer and autumn in cow manure and I can say this has made a huge improvement on the fruit yeild I have got from the plants this year.
I am literally harvesting the same as my picture above every three days and they are bigger and hold firmer better than my summer ones.
There are still hundreds to come so it's just carry on picking which means breakfast at the lottie by the handful most days with whatever I forage
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Hi Fidgetbones
yes I agree they freeze really well and the harvests keep us in rasps all year. I freeze them in small plastic takeaway cartons they stack really well and just take when required.
my summer rasps are Glen Ample and too follow are Autumn Bliss, which are coming along sweet
this has been my best return yet and it may be down to the six inches of quality cow manure I put on and around the plants earlier this year
happy gardening
My Glen ample are only in their second year, we had a crop this year but not huge. Polka cropped last year in its first year and has triple the canes this year. Mine has a sprinkling of BFB , and a top dressing of well rotted fym, a mix of cows on straw and horse on wood shavings, not that you can tell, it's so well composted it looks like peat.
My single Glen Coe, struggling, not as good as its publicity.
Terry Louise is not sold anywhere now, mine are old canes, they do have a tendency to run.Mine have run out of the old raspberry patch, under a path, and coming up on the boundary between a path, and a slabbed area with the polytunnel on.
I planted some Autumn Bliss canes, I think it was spring 2014. One died by the end of 2014, in 2015 they were growing but nothing much and a bit straggly, but this year they are looking incredible! They are enormous and bushy, about 1.5m high at least!
Looking forward to the crop!
Hi all
Autumn Bliss have started fruiting really well and fruit is now ready to pick daily so it's important you pick before they spoil or feathered friends start.
I don't mind sacrificing some to the birds as the harvest yeild is huge and I am freezing in boxes to save for better times as you can only eat so many daily
Todays pickings are fab and the raspberries are so big and hold shape really well
Looking at lifting some rouge rooters and planting on the perimeter of the garden to get more for next year. I say more maybe have to get a bigger fridge however the price you are charged for a punnet at the supermarket is scandal so I won't ever buy again as long as I have an allotment
Happy gardening
I have autumn raspberries which have grown very tall and been blown over by wind. I didnt stake and tie them as was advised no need to do so with autumn raspberries. They have fruited in august ! What did i do wrong ? I didnt think they would grow so tall
My autumn raspberries always fruit in August - getting a lovely crop now, some for breakfast some for supper and lots in the freezer and more to pick this morning - but they're planted in the ground against a fence and as they grow I loop plastic covered wire around them to hold them against the fence so they don't get blown about.
Raspberries grow tall and in pots they're likely to be top-heavy. Have you got them in heavy loam-based compost? And they do need something to tie them up to - I'd put the pot against a fence or post and put some gardener's twine around them to hold them up.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hi all,
Further to my post above, I have had a few berries, maybe about 30 at the most, but nowhere near as much as chris 172!
I've got loads of foliage but just not many fruits, any ideas why? I've got about 3 sq m of plants, roughly.
My Autumn ones are also fruiting now. The variety is "All gold"
They are growing beside my plastic greenhouse, I made a grid frame with bamboo canes and clips and simply tie them in with twine as they grow to give extra support.
Ours did well this year the wife made a few lbs of jam, we enjoyed the rest with ice cream.
Hi Loz
Early on this year I covered my raspberry both summer and autumn in cow manure and I can say this has made a huge improvement on the fruit yeild I have got from the plants this year.
I am literally harvesting the same as my picture above every three days and they are bigger and hold firmer better than my summer ones.
There are still hundreds to come so it's just carry on picking which means breakfast at the lottie by the handful most days with whatever I forage
Happy gardening