When are raspberries in season in the state of Illinois?

Answer 1

Mid-August, I think...

Answer 2

Depends on the plant. Some raspberries (including blackberries) will be ready to pick now! Other varieties will fruit later in the summer. So you need to deterimine which type your plants are. For black raspberries wait until the fruit is dark purple and easly comes off the plant. If the fruit does not almost fall off it is not quite ripe yet. Picking lasts for about a week, picking ripe berries each day.

Some raspberry plants have two stages one a primocane and another called the floricane. (I might be spelling these wrong) To tell the difference the canes left over from last year that will produce fruit in the spring have a brown woody central stem. Primocanes (new growth) will have green stems and fruit next early summer. Some varieties will ultimately produce fruit in the early fall. I am right now harvesting my black raspberry floricanes in Southern Wisconsin. You want to retain the primocanes and trim the very thin tips to a thickness of your pinky. They will shoot out spring growth and produce better fruit if you trim the primocanes back some. In the spring I remove the dead floricanes from the previous season and weave this years floricanes between a two strand wire "trellace" to hold the canes up right. They will collapse under the wieght of spring growth and fruit.

Check with your state agricultural extension office website for more info on the raspberries found in your area. They are listed below.

Answer 3

Right now, I believe. June & July.

Answer 4

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