Growing Everbearing Raspberries in Northern California

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John shares his experience with growing raspberries in Northern Caliofornia, in a more shaded area of his yard. He also explains the difference on how you can tell the difference between raspberries and blackberries. The everbearing raspberries were given to him by a friend, who said they are originally from Oregon.

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I've been growing raspberries for the past six or so years, courtesy of a good friend of mine, who purchased my initial plants. Can't really say I've done much to help them, except pruning (and I think I've done too much of that most of the time), but, well, I started doing some serious research, and purchasing of the plants, and now I have a number of varieties, and I hope to get more in the future.

I started growing a raspberry stalk I purchased at Home Depot a couple months back then planted it straight in the ground and noticed it was drying off then something great happened, another little raspberry plant popped out right next to it! I proceeded to add some more soil, Rick dust and compost around it for extra support. So I assume that it is the root runner! I'm a first time urban gardener and garden in the backyard. So it's all amazing and new to me and thank you for your help J. KEEP ON GROWING!

What variety of raspberry it is

I was looking around but I have no idea where to buy them in bay area. Can you point me to some place ?

John, how many hours of direct sun do these plants get? I'm in Vegas, and thinking of filling in on one side of the house with black-, boysen-, blue- and raspberries. However, at this time of the year, it doesn't get direct sun, and during the summer, it only gets about 4 hours of direct sun.. in the late afternoon. My other option is in the back yard that will get direct sun from 10am until around 3pm then about 5pm until the sun goes behind Mt. Charleston. Any good ideas?

great video, i assume you're a stoner.

You can stake up your raspberries or not. They will "fall over" if they are not staked or trellised. Rock Dust is a trace mineral supplement for your plants. please do a youtube search on rock dust to find my other vidoes where I talk more about it.

Thanks for the video. I have a question about raspberries, do you have to put stakes at the end of the bush so the raspberries don't fall down or you can just have them like a regular bush? I have one more question ,what is rock dust? I like a lot your videos !:)

never seen proper breed names and text talk in the same post

do you know the spacing you used between your berries? I have purchase about 6 plants from my nursery and wanted to get them all spaced out appropriately for plating :)

oh yeah. I grow in compost and rock dust. They like fertile soil :).

I just planted them. they grow like weeds! and they send out runners and will spread!

I am by no means a berry expert, and dont pretend to be. Thank you for your wize words of wisdom, and enlightening me on the correct terminology.