This berry is loved for its incredible taste, useful properties. Gardeners gladly plant bushes in the plots. The modern market offers us a huge number of varieties of raspberries and each of them has its advantages and disadvantages.
Varieties of raspberry garden
All the seedlings that you offer on the market can be divided into three groups.
- Traditional. These are the most reliable varieties that adapt well to almost all conditions. Every year you can count on a large number of root offspring. The only disadvantage of traditional raspberries is its low yield.
- Large-fruit raspberry. The berries are really big, some reach a weight of 20g. The second advantage is the ability of fruit branches to branch. Among the large-breeders there are the sweetest varieties of raspberries, surpassing the taste of traditional traditional species. In addition, there are a lot of varieties of this species.
- Repaired raspberry. Fruiting can only be interrupted by strong frost. The bush yields a crop twice a season. And the second crop may even be more successful than the first one.
Now let's take a look at the most popular species that gardeners have already estimated.
Large-fruited varieties of raspberry
One of the most viable is the Senator variety. Fruiting is annual. Ripening of berries is earlier. The bush is medium-sided and rarely its height reaches more than 1.8 m. Winter hardiness is average, good resistance to the main types of diseases. The berries are very large, do not crumble and do not break when harvesting.
Gusar is a type of medium ripening. The bush has good winter hardiness and high yield. Advantage is also in the fact that there are no thorns on the bush, but it does not give much water. This is one of the new varieties of raspberries, which has already won the trust of gardeners.
Brigantine refers to varieties with high winter hardiness. Ripening of berries later. The fruits are large and have a dark crimson color, the shape is round-conical.
Raspberry black: varieties
The most famous is the black raspberry variety Cumberland. The berries are very sweet and fragrant. It is characterized by high yield and good resistance to frost. A feature of the black raspberry variety of Cumberland is the absence of root offspring. That is why it can be multiplied by means of apical shoots, by horizontal branches or by green cuttings.
There are a lot of useful substances and vitamins in berries. High content of vitamin P helps to strengthen the walls of blood vessels, and also contains a high concentration of organic acids and carbohydrates.
Varieties of patch raspberry
Among the repairing varieties is popular Diamond. Refers to new varieties of raspberries. The first harvest is collected in the second half of June, and the second time you can enjoy berries from mid-August to frosts. The shoots of the bush have no thorns, strongly branched.
Golden domes yield in the first decade of August and before autumn frosts. The fruits have a golden orange color. The plant is resistant to the main list of diseases.
Repaired raspberry Orange miracle refers to large-fruited varieties. Has a high yield, a berry of sweet and sour dessert taste with a characteristic aroma. From each bush you can collect up to 2.5 kg of berries. Ripening occurs in the first half of August and before frost.
Giant variety is also very popular among gardeners. The surface of the berries is velvety, the shape is conical. When harvesting everything remains intact and does not crumble. The taste is sweet dessert. You can eat fresh, suitable for all types of processing.