Wood 2 organic raspberry plants collection

This Collection  of 2 organic perpetual raspberry bushes brings together the 'Marastar' raspberry bush, with large red fruits, and the 'Golden Everest' raspberry bush, which produces large yellow-orange fruits. Both varieties offer tasty and extended harvests, from July to October. The plants are vigorous and easy to grow, but they prefer humus-rich soils that retain moisture, even in summer, without too much limestone. Plant your raspberry bushes near the vegetable garden or on the edge of a grove, in a partially shaded but bright location. Planting from October to March. Plants from Organic Agriculture.

The collection consists of:

- 1 x Organic 'Marastar' Raspberry Bush - Rubus idaeus: an excellent and highly productive variety. Its fruit is conical, of good size and firmness, sweet and fragrant, with a very appetizing bright red color. It is a compact plant (1.30 m (4ft) in all directions), particularly vigorous and sucker-producing, hardy, and not very susceptible to diseases, perfect for amateur gardeners. Each plant will produce up to 3 kg of fruit per year, or even more. Container cultivation is possible.

- 1 x Organic 'Golden Everest' Raspberry Bush - Rubus idaeus: a variety with a medium yield, rather early, producing clusters of large, roundish fruits, yellow-orange in color, aromatic and slightly acidic. Its brightly colored raspberries attract fewer birds, which saves the gardener from having to put nets on the bushes.

Separately labeled

Raspberry bushes can be associated with other small fruits such as currants or blackcurrants in a delicious hedge. The fruits can be used to make jams or to garnish pies. The cultivation of raspberry bushes seems to date back to the late Middle Ages. In the forest, five to ten years after a beech tree has been cut down in particular, wild raspberry bushes appear in the vacant space, producing fruit for three to four years. Raspberries are not very energy-rich, they contain two specific sugars, levulose and fructose, and very little sucrose. The fruits also contain ellagic acid, tannins, vitamin C, and are a good source of potassium. It is also a medicinal plant, with its young shoots and buds being used in gemmotherapy.