Raspberry | Black | OG
$35.00
Available Stock: 5
This collection of NZ heritage berries has mostly come to us from many people around New Zealand, however a significant part of the collection came from Henry Harrington. A growing part of the collection is from a member and Koanga Seed Curator, Wendy Evans, who lives near Wellington and collects heritage berries. She has named her collections after the places she found them. All these berries are grown from root division and grown in open ground situation “og”.
1m
5 in stock
Description
These raspberries are Kay’s favourite fruit. 5 plants on a trellis and covered with bird netting for the ripe fruiting period provides fresh raspberries approx 1-2 litres everyday for 4 adults and 5 children, and 1 litre in the freezer for smoothies.
Apart from being delicious and ripening at a really good time, the black rasperries are supposed to be the most nutritious. If you plant them in good soil, in a bed with hard-ish paths each side of the bed as we have there will be no suckering, making them easy to manage, they just require an annual prune to remove the recently fruited growth and tie up of next years fruiting spurs. They have long canes so are best tied onto wires.
Black raspberries are reputed to be the most nutritious. Fruit Christmas week until mid January.
Our black raspberries were gifted to us as a heritage raspberry from a garden in the South Island.
