When to plant raspberries?
- Botanical name
- Rubus idaeus
- Family
- Rosaceae
Raspberries are planted from October to March.
Raspberries are woody perennials. The edible parts are the leaves and fruit.
Raspberries fall into two types, and the difference is where they carry the fruit. The summer type bears on canes from last season, so a cane grows in its first year, bears in the second and then dies. On that type only the canes that have borne are cut to the ground, and the strongest new ones are tied in. The autumn type bears on canes of the same season, so there everything is cut to the ground.
Raspberry suits soil at a pH between 5.5 and 7, and it does best in the more acid half of that range. In alkaline ground the iron is present but the roots cannot take it up, and the leaves show it by yellowing between green veins.
A mature raspberry needs little water. It is watered in a long drought, while the fruit is swelling. In the first year after planting and in a pot the watering is regular.
Raspberries through the year
- planting
- pruning (summer-fruiting)
- pruning (autumn-fruiting)
- harvest (summer-fruiting)
- harvest (autumn-fruiting)
In short
Growing conditions
Pests and diseases
Listed here is every problem for which the sources name this plant as a host. The problems are not listed in order of how common they are.
- Signs
- At the stalk of a ripe berry there is a grey brown dried patch, and in the fruit a small whitish brown larva. The summer raspberries are hit hardest. The autumn ones, which ripen late, mostly get away.
- Prevention
- Put up with a few damaged berries, since the part of the crop affected is usually small. Encourage the predators (birds, hedgehogs, ground beetles). There are water traps scented like the raspberry, which catch both sexes.
- What to do
- There is no spray to use. On the autumn varieties the most reliable measure is the variety itself, because ripening late dodges the generation.
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Related plants
The plants below are in the same botanical family (Rosaceae).
Sources about the plant: GBIF Backbone Taxonomy, Iowa State University Extension, NC State Extension Plant Toolbox, Penn State Extension, Royal Horticultural Society, University of Maryland Extension, Utah State University Extension, Wikidata. Checked between 14 and 26 August 2026. The problem descriptions also draw on: EPPO Global Database.