Few gardeners can boast of having such a wonderful bush on their site as yellow raspberries. This plant gained fame at the beginning of the last century, breeders and just lovers of this berry grew a large number of varieties. Among them, there were both light yellow and yellow-orange raspberries. Over the past hundred years, the shrub has not received wide distribution, although its berries have a wonderful taste, and the plant itself is unpretentious in cultivation and can withstand the most severe winters.
Raspberry remontant yellow differs from red not only in the color of berries, but also in taste, biochemical composition. Its fruits contain a lot of sugars and a small amount of acids, so they are very tender and sweet. Low anthocyanins make berries useful for allergy sufferers, children, and pregnant women. The fruits contain
vitamin B9 and
folic acid, these components accelerate the metabolism and synthesis of compounds.
Yellow raspberries have not so many varieties, the most famous of them: Runaway, Yellow Giant, Cornish Victoria, Amber, Spirina white. All of them differ in the color of the fruits and the ripening period. Yellow raspberries make delicious jams and jams with a very beautiful golden color. Children enjoy sweet berries with pleasure, which also ripen gradually, allowing you to extend the pleasure.
Yellow raspberry belongs to frost-resistant plants, but does not tolerate drought, it is also undesirable to plant it in open areas where it is not protected from the wind. This berry crop originally grew in forests, where moisture is always preserved, and the soil is nutritious and loose. If the top layer of the earth dries up, the plant ceases to bear fruit and grow, since the surface root system does not reach the water. Therefore, you need to try to create at home conditions that are most similar to the natural environment for the growth of shrubs.
On all well-lit, drained, fertilized, and non-moistened soils, yellow raspberries can grow. The photo of the fruits of this shrub encourages many gardeners to acquire such a beautiful plant. Although it is not common in our country, but not a single person has yet regretted the acquisition of this kind of raspberry. Before planting, you need to loosen the earth, add manure, peat, sand. The distance between the rows should be about 2 m, and in the row the bushes are planted every 80 cm. The raspberries should be immediately tied to stakes or posts.
Caring for a shrub is practically no different from caring for ordinary red and black-fruited varieties. Yellow raspberries require regular watering in summer during severe droughts. To keep moisture longer, planting is necessary to mulch; introducing a hydrogel under the bush will also help. As fertilizer, you can use ash, manure, lime or infusion of weeds. Raspberries are very fond of nitrogen, so if possible the soil should be kept moist, and at the beginning of summer it is recommended to pour it with slurry or infusion of weeds, then the crop will please you for more than one year.