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Raspberries
Raspberry Canes – We want your raspberry growing efforts to yield the best results possible, which is why the raspberry canes for sale at Chris Bowers are freshly packed and of the very highest calibre. The great choice of raspberry varieties that we offer means that you can choose from main season and autumn fruiting raspberry canes to suit your individual preferences. Buying raspberry canes as bare root are sold from Autumn to late Spring. Raspberry plants for sale in pots & jumbo-plugs are sometimes available for supply during the Summer enabling planting all year round.
Planting Raspberry Canes
Grow your own raspberries in the garden is a very popular pastime nowadays, as you just can’t beat the flavour of your own fresh picked raspberries! That’s why our range of raspberry canes for sale is so extensive – probably the largest range of raspberry canes you can buy anywhere – because they are also so economically valuable. Even a small row of, say 10 canes, will produce several pounds of fruit and is an investment that will continue to yield for 12-15 years or more.
Raspberry Canes – Always use Ministry Certified Stock where possible
It is essential with the main varieties that you only plant Ministry certified, virus free stock. Most of the raspberries listed here are Ministry certified and simply the finest, most true to type stock available. Canes are packed fresh for every order to ensure you of the best possible results. NEVER plant second best, it is always false economy. Plant 12-15″ apart in the row with rows 6′ apart. Raspberries prefer well drained soil especially in the winter. Most are best with a post + wire support but some are a little shorter and can be grown self supporting – i.e. Malling Jewel, Autumn Bliss and Zeva.
Planning your raspberry season
With a little forethought you can harvest fresh picked raspberries from your garden by planting raspberry canes that cover the season. Throughout our raspberry variety descriptions, you will see the season given as early/mid/late and autumn fruiting.
Early season usually begins from late June; mid season begins about 10 days after that and late season starts in late July and August. Then the autumn fruiting varieties begin in August and will usually fruit until the first frosts in October. Therefore by planting a selection of raspberry canes you can harvest fruit from late June until October! Our raspberry canes are sold in quantities of 5 or more per variety, which is the minimum number of raspberry canes you should consider planting per cultivar to achieve a reasonable pick at any one time.
Planting Raspberry Canes
Make sure the canes are set 12-15″ apart. Rows should be 6′ apart to allow for cultivation, hoeing, weeding and harvesting. Raspberries generally dislike heavy or wet conditions. If you have a clay soil consider raising the planting area just a few inches so they do not get waterlogged in the winter. A sunny aspect is always best for your raspberry canes!
Remember to consider Golden and purple Raspberry canes as well, special variations in flavour and colour to add a special touch to your raspberry cane planting programme.
Thornless Raspberries –
here are several thorn free types available so if you have an aversion to spines look out for the varieties Glen Lyon, Glen Prosen, Glen Moy, Glen Ample and Glen Doll which have canes as smooth as silk!
Yellow Raspberries
Are a choice and delicious variation with a sweeter, milder flavour than traditional red varieties. They are very attractive mixed in a bowl with red varieties, can be eaten without sugar and also make a wonderful apricot coloured jam!
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Lloyd George Raspberry Canes
£12.50Popular well over 75 years ago and thought to have disappeared completely, we are pleased to have located a small nucleus of genuine stock and now have sufficient canes to issue a limited sale. Lloyd George is late-summer season ripening, the medium sized madder-rose berries are moderately firm and exceedingly flavourful – definitely one of the best of all known Raspberries for flavour! The canes are of moderate growth, arching, and scarcely spined. An easy grower which typically the second half of July. Ideal for dessert and all other purposes; easily plugged. A variety I am sure many will wish…
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Malling Admiral Raspberry Bushes
£11.50 – £179.95A mid/late season variety with firm, large fruit of delicious flavour. Bright, dark red fruit of superb quality for freezing, jam and dessert. Canes are strong and numerous and have resistance to Spur Blight, cane Botrytis and some viruses and Arabis Mosaic. The quality fruit hang in abundance, providing a reasonable crop of flavourful berries. An easy to manage variety that is very popular, but only moderate cropper.
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Malling Delight Raspberry Bushes
£11.50 – £179.95An early mid-season variety with very large, long fruits which are easily picked. Once the heaviest crop of all varieties. Aphid resistant so tends to escape virus disease. A good flavoured dessert variety with pleasing cane growth. The fruit can occasionally be a little soft in very wet seasons but the results achieve with this variety are very impressive.
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Malling Exploit Raspberry Canes
£11.50 – £22.50Malling Exploit is an old variety that has long since been superceded, but remains an attractive variety that we continue to cultivate through sentiment! A strong growing and moderately productive selection, the bright pinky red berries are quite large and have a good true raspberry flavour. They suit all purposes and are especially good for dessert as the flavour never disappoints, A mid season variety, the season is relatively short, especially by modern-variety standards, but an attractive variety with a lovely flavour and good fruit production. Easy to grow.
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Malling Joy Raspberry Canes
£12.50 – £23.95Another re-introduction to our range, this our most popular late summer season Raspberry by far for several years in the 1980’s. Malling Joy is distinguished by one of the finest flavours of all Raspberry varieties; intense, rounded and luscious, the dark red-purple berries are large and ripen from the second half of July on tall purple canes. This is a vigorous grower, often considered unsuited to fruit cages because of it’s height, but it is strong, productive – and sensationally flavoured! Stock limited. Photo is of stock plant.
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Malling Orion Raspberry Bushes
£11.50 – £179.95Re-introduced by popular request. a heavy cropping mid-season variety with medium sized, firm, round fruits. Excellent flavour.
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Malling Promise Raspberry Bushes
£11.50 – £179.95The first raspberry to fruit in early summer. The large, rosy red fruits are excellent for dessert or jam etc. and the canes are abundant and vigorous. A very popular variety that will also thrive in poorer soils. Customers who have grown Promise for years insist on this variety as part of their cropping.
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Polka – A New Hardy Polish Raised Autumn Fruiting Raspberry
£11.50 – £179.95A variety which has already excited considerable interest amongst experts across Europe with its long list of enviable characteristics. The extraordinary long picking season starts up to 10 days earlier than Autumn Bliss yet continues to the same end of season frosts. Larger, brighter and more attractive fruits with a lively true raspberry flavour, high total yield over a very long season, and a rather high percentage of class 1 fruits with virtually no small or mis-shaped berries. The fruits have good lasting qualities and can be stored in the ‘fridge for several days after harvest with little deterioration in…
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Purple Raspberry Glencoe Raspberry Bushes
£11.95A variety raised by the Scottish Crop Research Institute. It is a hybrid from Glen Prosen and an unnamed thornless black raspberry and the result has given us some thing rather special. Glencoe is remarkable for the intense colour of its fruits, and even more so for the lovely intense flavour. Cropping is heavy with yields similar to that of Glen Clova. The first purple Raspberry to be available for growing in this country and Europe. Glencoe is suitable for all dessert uses, and especially indispensable for preserves and flavouring, as the flavour is so intense. The spine free canes…
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Sceptre Raspberry Bushes
£11.50 – £179.95A variety introduced by us, Sceptre fruits from early September onwards and provides a heavy crop in all conditions. The canes are very strong and self supporting and the fruits are of a very high quality. Now outclassed by Autumn Bliss.
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September Raspberry Bushes
£11.50 – £179.95A good crop of firm, quality fruit with superb flavour. Fruits in early September and gives a consistent yield until first frosts. This variety is more tolerant of dry conditions, still producing large, juicy berries.
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Tulameen Raspberry Bushes
£11.50 – £179.95A new late Summer Season variety from Canada which begins ripening in early July but goes on for up to 6 weeks. Very large dark pink glossy berries are produced on long laterals for easy picking. The fruits keep well in good condition and have a good flavour. The canes are tall and spiny.
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Yellow Antwerp Raspberry canes
£12.95A rare heirloom variety that we are highjly delighted to be able to re-introduce. A popular variety more than 50 yerars ago, stocks became week 10 years ago and began to die out but have been re-invigorated. Yellow Antwerp is a summer fruiting yellow with small primrose yellow berries that ripen to apricot gold, at which point they are at their most sensationally sweet with a divine, honey-like flavour. Ripening in late June and early July, crops are light by modern standards, but this must be one of the finest and sweetest of all raspberries that is held in great…
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Zeva Raspberry Bushes
£11.50 – £179.95Large sized fruit of high quality and good flavour, yields well in the first year of cropping. The sweet, juicy fruits ripen to deep scarlet and are picked in late August until late October. Ministry certified.
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