Suggested Varieties

Red Raspberries

Boyne - Early ripening. Large crops of medium-sized, dark red berries with good flavor. Short, spiny canes. Very hardy.

Killarney - Ripens mid-season. Medium-sized, bright red fruit with good flavor. Short, spiny canes with many fine thorns. Very hardy.

Newburgh - Ripens mid-season. Large, round, bright red fruit with fair flavor. Good for freezing. Vigorous plants with very few thorns. Hardy.

Nova - Ripens mid-season. Medium-sized fruit, bright red, firm. Resistant to most cane diseases.

Latham - Mid-to-late ripening. Medium-large fruit, prone to crumbling, with fair flavor. Plants are vigorous with few thorns. Very hardy.

Black raspberries

Jewel - Mid-season ripening. Firm, glossy fruit with good flavor. Vigorous, erect plants.

Blackberries

Darrow - Large, glossy fruit with good flavor. Vigorous, erect plants with large thorns, but susceptible to virus.

Illini - Large fruit, vigorous plants with large thorns.

Everbearing Raspberries

August Red - Earliest ripening everbearing type. Soft, medium-sized fruit with fair flavor. Short, spiny canes.

Autumn Bliss - Early ripening fall crop with large flavorful fruit. Canes are moderately vigorous with few thorns.

Fall Red - Early ripening fall crop, but many be too late for all but extreme southern Maine and New Hampshire. Medium-small fruit, soft with good flavor. Vigorous, short spiny canes.

Purple Raspberries

Royalty - Late ripening. High yielding, large, round reddish purple fruit that are soft, with good flavor. Large vigorous canes with thorns. Susceptible to root rot.

Success - Mid-to-late ripening. Small, dark purple fruit with good flavor. High yielding. Slow spreading plants, with thorns.