Berries · Perennial
Raspberry
Rosaceae
At a glance
- Plant spacing
- 60 cm
- USDA zones
- 3a–8b
- Frost-sensitive
- no
- Growth duration
- 16 weeks
Which beds suit?
- Sun (prefers)
- full sunAlso okay:partial shade
- Soil (prefers)
- loamyAlso okay:sandy
- Drainage (prefers)
- normalAlso okay:very free-draining
Seed & start
Perennial
Plant once, returns every year.
Stachi's tip
Raspberries spread underground — plant WITHOUT a root barrier and in 2 years your bed is a raspberry field. Autumn raspberries are easier than summer types: just cut everything to ground level in late winter, they regrow from the roots.
The plant's year: sowing, transplanting, harvest
Sowing
No sowing weeks recorded.
Transplanting
Harvest
Good neighbours
No fixed companion partners — easy to mix.
Traditional recommendation. Rarely studied under controlled conditions — treat it as experience, not law.
Avoid these neighbours
Traditional recommendation. Rarely studied under controlled conditions — treat it as experience, not law.
Good pre-cultures
Stachi has no specific pre-cultures recorded.
Sources
- Kreuter, Bio-Garten
- Kosmos Gartenkalender
- LLM-Baseline-Intercrop
- LLM-Baseline-2026-05-09 yieldKg
- LLM-Baseline-2026-05-10 family-zehrer
- LLM-Baseline-2026-05-10 sun-soil-drainage
Where these figures come from
- Timing
- Horticulturally established — consistent across the cited standard works.
- Spacing
- Horticulturally established — consistent across the cited standard works.
- Companion planting
- Traditional recommendation. Rarely studied under controlled conditions — treat it as experience, not law.
- Crop rotation
- Traditional recommendation. Rarely studied under controlled conditions — treat it as experience, not law.
- Yield
- Limited evidence. This value is not backed by a specialist source — treat it as a pointer.
Sources: Kreuter, Bio-Garten · Kosmos Gartenkalender · LLM-Baseline-Intercrop · LLM-Baseline-2026-05-09 yieldKg · LLM-Baseline-2026-05-10 family-zehrer · LLM-Baseline-2026-05-10 sun-soil-drainage
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