Cherrie' Singer wrote:I've been trying to get consistant fruiting out of my Fall Gold Raspberry run (15' long) for several years. They generally throw a sparse crop in Summer then their main crop well into Autumn. Summer last year, everything changed with a heavy infestation of Japanese Beetles. It wasn't until after they'd descended on my 50' long privacy wall of Virginia Creeper that they set about skeletonizing half of my three stands of (beloved) Woodsii Roses. THEN they lit upon all the Rasp buds with a vengence. I'd assumed weeks earlier that the dead leaves at the bottom foot of the Rasp run had resulted from a dry spell. Wrong. It was the Evil Baby JB's emerging - hungry - from having over-wintered beneath the run. I've since learned that JBs 1) apparently love the Rubus/Rosaceae plant family 2) are no-doubt here in Colorado for keeps and 3) are on the move across our Nation to decimate the crops of those who make a living growing said species. That said, I feel like a whiner. '
Interesting. I'm in North Carolina, and Fall Golds do fantastic. Their summer crop is so prolific it makes me want to call them a different name! One of my favorite berry varieties of all time, I love how sweet they are.
As long as they have plenty of sun (like all raspberries like), they need next to no care and are very prolific in our region. We're very wet here, 60 in a year. So that's different.
And I do notice that the raspberries can't handle drying out-- I have some (all different varieties) in large pots, and they went a few weeks without rain/watering this summer and they dropped their fruit from drought stress
Although my neighbor didn't water hers, which were well established and in the ground, in this time period and they were fine.
The main thing for raspberries in my mind: lots of sun, and a few years to get established.
