Raspberry | Yellow | OG
$29.00
Available Stock: 75
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
75 in stock
Description
Outstanding raspberry, was well known all over New Zealand 100 years ago. Average size, pale yellow fruit, one of the best eating raspberries, with a strong Autumn crop following a Summer crop. 1.5m, ripe December.
Yellow raspberries are wonderful, taste great and crop well, but you must decide how you are going to manage them. There is a choice between letting them grow wildish, and suckering anywhere, and managing them by using a weed eater to control or cut harvesting paths. This is potentially a good way to manage them in a largish forest garden. The canes do not grow as tall as the Black raspberries and work well like this. The other option is to de-sucker several times a year and keep them in a bed with hard paths each side to discourage suckering. They repeat crops, so you get the early crop and a smaller one in Autumn. With raspberries you also have the added bonus of the leaves. At Koanga we put raspberry leaves in our tea everyday, incredibly nourishing for us all.
Ex Canterbury/ Lower Hutt, NZ Heirloom. Widely found in South Island gold-mining areas.
