Anne' Yellow Raspberry – Rubus idaeus

Add a touch of originality and sweetness to your garden with the 'Anne' raspberry! This variety stands out with its magnificent, large, golden-yellow fruit, a rarity among raspberries. Milder and less acidic than traditional red varieties, 'Anne' raspberries offer an exceptional flavour that will delight your taste buds. In addition to its unique taste, this raspberry is everbearing, rewarding you with a generous harvest that extends from summer until the first cool days of autumn. Easy to grow and very hardy, 'Anne' is an ideal choice for gardeners of all levels looking to enjoy raspberries of an uncommon colour and flavour.

The Harvest: Production and Flavour

'Anne' raspberry is what is known as an everbearing variety, which means it produces fruit on the current year's new canes (primocanes). This unique characteristic allows for a very long harvest period, from July until the first autumn frosts. Production is good and generally begins in the second year after planting.

• Harvest Period: July, August, September, October
• Visual Description: The fruits are very large and conical in shape. Their colour is a magnificent golden-yellow, which can even take on an orange hue when extremely ripe.
• Flavour Profile: The flesh is firm and juicy. Its flavour is its greatest asset: it is exceptionally mild and very sweet, with an almost undetectable acidity, which clearly distinguishes it from traditional red varieties.
• Culinary Uses: Delicious to savour freshly picked. Its sweetness makes it a choice fruit for desserts, pastries, jams, and sorbets. It contains fewer seeds than black varieties, which makes it easier to process.

Planting Guide

To ensure a successful planting, follow these key steps:

1. The Ideal Location: Choose a site in full sun for maximum production and sweeter fruit. It should be sheltered from strong winds. Avoid planting where tomatoes or potatoes were recently grown.
2. Soil Preparation: The 'Anne' raspberry appreciates fertile, cool, loose, and well-drained soil. A slightly acidic to neutral pH is suitable. To enrich your soil, generously incorporate compost or a quality planting mix at the time of planting.
3. Planting: Dig a hole two to three times wider than the root ball. Moisten the root ball well before placing it in the hole, ensuring the top of it is level with the surrounding soil. Fill, tamp down lightly, and water generously.
4. Pollination: Self-fertile.

Care Guide

• Watering: Ensure regular watering, about once a week, to maintain cool soil and get larger, juicier fruit. Mulching is recommended to retain moisture.
• Fertilizing: In the early spring, when new canes appear, apply an organic fertilizer or a fertilizer for small fruits.
• Pruning: As an everbearing variety, pruning is very simple. To favour one large autumn harvest and simplify maintenance, cut all canes down to ground level after the final production, once frost has ended the season. Brand new productive canes will grow the following spring.
• Protection:
  • From Animals: Raspberries can be a target for deer or rabbits in the winter. Protection like a wire cage may be necessary.
  • From Birds: As the fruits ripen, netting is essential to protect your harvest.