Growing Raspberries: Tips at a Glance
Raspberries: A Field Guide. Raspberries are delicious, beautiful, and packed with a greater diversity of antioxidants than any other commonly eaten fruit.
- Type Edible fruit
- Lifespan Perennial
- USDA Zones 2-7
- Light Full sun
- Water 1 inch per week
- When to Plant Early spring
- Design tip Creates a thicket
- Companions Garlic, tansy
- Peak Season Summer berries
Raspberries: A Field Guide
Raspberries are the eighth wonder of the world: delicious, beautiful, and packed with a greater diversity of antioxidants and anti-inflammatory nutrients than any other commonly eaten fruit.
Raspberries grow on woody, rambling canes in dense mounds called brambles. The most commonly grown (and eaten) varieties are European red raspberries (R. ideaeus) and a similar variety native to the United States, the American red raspberry (R. strigosus). Other cousins among the nearly 700 species in the Rubus family are blackberries, boysenberries, and dewberries.