I was out at a farm a couple weeks ago and the guy has a big garden and there was many raspberry type plants that appeared to still have fruit on them. I was surprised, so I asked him about them. He claimed they are called something like 'Everbearing,' & that they produce into the Fall. I had never heard of such a thing. He said he even has strawberry plants that are that way. I suppose they're some type of ~hybrid/GMO product

I still have a few strawberries now and had raspberries as of a week or so ago. I know the strawberries are called "Everbearing" and I got them from Gurneys 15 years ago or so. The Raspberries came from an old farm but produce all summer and Fall.

I picked the rest of my raspberries yesterday, 29° this morning. Everbearing is correct.

The wife planted some raspberries out back several years ago that were supposed to be everbear. Not sure what happened or if they were labeled wrong? They get nice berries but they are done mid summer. Last fall we stopped at an Amish farm to buy some mums. The old guy there had nice row of raspberries hanging full along side corn crib. When wife ask him about them. He said they had berries all summer. So yes there are definitely plants that will do that.

Mac

Everbearing brambles, raspberry/blackberry, differ from standard which bear on second year floricanes by bearing both on second year floricanes in the spring but also on first year primocanes in the late summer/fall for two crops per year. Everbearers can be managed differently than standards which are managed by removing spent two year old canes but leaving the best first year canes for next year. Since everbearers will bear on first year canes you can mow everything to the ground in winter and still get a crop on new canes.

I have a bunch of varieties and most are everbearing. One is fall gold i believe. My boys love it. Essentially we start getting berries early June and we just picked the last berries last week. There are certainly periods where the ripening of berries is thick but there is always some to pick. I think we got 20 some pints of jam along with some other berries this year and its nice to just pick them when you want them as well

We went thru a variety of pruning experiments. I just trim them chest high this time of year and cut the dead shoots in the spring.

I noticed one of my mulberry trees had a late round of berries on it. Most are small and green and I doubt they get ripe.

In strawberries and raspberries, everbearers still have 2 main crops a year. Day neutral strawberries are much more everbearing. They can have strawberries on them when there's snow on them. During the Winter, they develop very slowly. Seascape is the most popular day neutral strawberry. Beaverpeeler grows acres of them. None of them are genetically modified. They were all produced by selective breeding.

Keith

Day neutral strawberries were originally bred with genetics from Rocky Mountain wild strawberries that had to figure out how to bloom when days are long because of their altitude.

Warrior gives the perfect explanation for everbearing raspberries. Most commercial growers mow them to the ground in the late fall -early winter to get one strong crop starting in late summer into the autumn months. Heritage, Summit, Fallgold, Jacklyn, Autumn Bliss are all good cultivars to consider. Even if you mow them they still need a trellis system for cane support so they don't bend over to the ground with the fruit weight.

Seascape is a nice cultivar for sure but lacks something in the disease resistance dept. Susceptible to root rots and leaf spot. For eating quality it is hard to beat.

Peeler, its funny you say to mow them to the ground. I know you’re more savvy then me on the subject, but every time I leveled them my harvest was easily half of what it is if I just lightly trim the tops. Interesting…

It's true if you leave last year's primocanes they will produce a medium to light crop. Generally smaller fruit as a rule. Depending on what cultivar you're growing most bear a heavier primocane crop than the two crops combined. Maybe in your climatic zone the fall crop gets curtailed by early frosts.

Of course do what's been working for you. Commercial growers almost always opt for mowing to the ground.

Everbearing strawberries have been around for a long time. When I was a kid my grandparents had them, and they weren't new plants then. Come to think of it, the raspberries we had then were probably everbearing also. Seems like as long as you kept watering them they would keep producing berries. When you got tired of picking berries you quit watering them and they would pretty much quit producing.

Not sure about the raspberries but the strawberries have been around longer than genmod has been around. They were produced by selective breeding.

There are old overbearing strawberries. Same with Razz. The newer wave of "everbearing" strawberries are actually more accurately called "Day Neutrals". Most of these have been around for several decades as well, but do a better job of producing all summer long instead of just an early summer and fall crop. Vastly superior to the old generation everbearers.

a week ago I had some berries left on my raspberries.

I start getting them about the last week of June and keep getting them in waves of new growth till it freezes at night

a little frost isn't enough

once the days get cooler and the insects aren't as active I get some crazy sweet berries as they mature slower with the cooler days.