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Common Name: Heritage Raspberry
Latin Name: Rubus 'heritage'

Sun

Zone: 4
Height: 1 - 1.25 m
Width: 1 m

Special Features: Everbearing, Ripens mid-July & Sept., Attracts pollinators & wildlife

Description:
Heritage everbearing red raspberry is a favorite for its firmness and the size of fruit. This variety produces abundant crops of large, sweet, dark red berries that are delicious for eating fresh, canning, freezing, or making jams and jellies. These self-supporting, upright canes are hearty enough to grow in poor soil, but needs a well-drained site. It has two harvest seasons, with a moderate yield in July and a heavy yield in September until frost.

Some newer cultivars of raspberries including 'Heritage' will produce fruit the first year. Pruning these cultivars entails mowing them in early spring. It is in the nature of raspberry plants to send up new growth as suckers or basal shoots from below the ground. This means the canes that you plant may not be where you find signs of life or new growth. When it’s time to grow, you will see new sprouts emerge from the ground around where you planted the cane which is from the root system of the plant.