Marshalls Seeds are advertising a variety of raspberry which is grown as a clump-shaped bush with no prickles. "Glen Coe", which was new in 2011, fruits from mid-June to the end of August and has wine-purple fruits. Marshalls claim a high yield from a single bush and say the flavour is intense.
Click here to go to their page. It ain't cheap, mind!
If this new variety lives up to the hype, it is attractive to those who have the new breed of micro-allotment currently being dished out by Ashford Borough Council. In an ideal world, ABC would assign more land to tackle the 280-odd people on the waiting list for plots, rather than subdividing plots till they are too small to be of much use. On the other hand, some people only want small plot and would welcome a few raspberries even if they couldn't justify a whole row.
Click here to go to their page. It ain't cheap, mind!
If this new variety lives up to the hype, it is attractive to those who have the new breed of micro-allotment currently being dished out by Ashford Borough Council. In an ideal world, ABC would assign more land to tackle the 280-odd people on the waiting list for plots, rather than subdividing plots till they are too small to be of much use. On the other hand, some people only want small plot and would welcome a few raspberries even if they couldn't justify a whole row.
Unfortunately only experience will tell whether this is a new breakthrough, or just a variation on the plants we have grown for years. The blurb says that the strongly rooted pot-grown plants supplied will, once established "quickly grow on to form a multi-stemmed clump that will get bigger and bigger in succeeding years". Of course any raspberry will spread, it sounds like this one doesn't run at the root though. This is a "floricane" variety and they say it is definitely only clump-forming.
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