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How to plant and care for Raspberry (All Gold)
Rubus idaeus
🍓 Fruit
🔁 Perennial
A yellow autumn raspberry with sweet, delicate berries you will never see in the shops. Easy: cut everything down each winter.
At a glance: harvest in August.
When to plant and care for it
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Harvest
Prune
Timed for a typical UK garden (last frost mid-April). The app uses your own town's frost dates.
Growing Raspberry (All Gold): what it needs
- Light
- Full sun · 6+ hours a day
- Watering
- Water well while fruit swells
- Soil
- Slightly acidic, moist but well-drained soil
- Spacing
- 45 cm
- Height
- 1.5 m
- In pots
- Only in large containers
- Feeding
- Sulphate of potash in late winter; mulch with compost
- Hardiness
- USDA zones 4–8
Step by step
- On planting day
Plant
Plant 45 cm apart in weed-free, well-prepared soil enriched with compost, and water in well.
- 0–3 days after “Plant”
Cut Canes to 25 cm
Cut canes back to 25 cm after planting to encourage strong new growth.
- 7–21 days after “Cut Canes to 25 cm”
Mulch
Spread 5 cm of compost or bark around the plants to keep moisture in and weeds down.
Every year
- FebruaryCut All Canes to the Ground
Cut every cane to ground level — this year's fruit comes on new canes.
- MarchMulch and Feed
Feed with sulphate of potash and mulch well.
- AugustPick Raspberries
Pick ripe golden berries every few days until the frosts.
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