Everbearing Raspberries
Unlike ever bearing strawberries which produce fruit continuously over the summer, the ever bearing raspberry produces an early-summer crop on the previous season's growth and a fall crop on the current season's growth.
Everbearing Varieties
Everbearing varieties yield a light crop in early summer, a few berries during the summer, and then another heavier crop in late summer or fall.
Everbearing (primocane) Raspberries aren't really everbearing, but they do generally have 2 harvests per season; one in mid-late summer and one in the fall.
Everbearing:
Quinalt - a hardy variety with large, soft tender fruits. Fruit develops in warm weather. Produces many runners.
Tribute - berries are firm, medium to large fruit.
Everbearing: Plants such as strawberries, which bloom intermittently, producing fruit throughout the entire growing season.
Foundation Plantings: Basic structure of a plant bed that is permanent such as bushes and evergreens.
everbearing. Term applied to strawberry cultivars that produce flowers and fruit all year as long as temperatures are favorable; often used synonymously with day-neutral.
extrafloral nectary. A nectary located outside the flower.
Everbearing varieties produce a large crop in late spring and a separate, smaller crop in fall. Everbearing varieties have slipped in popularity with the introduction of the newest type, day-neutral strawberries, which boast a longer harvest period.
Everbearing Strawberries are the second major variety. These usually smaller berries will produce all season long. But, the harvest is usually smaller. If you want to have them all season ling fresh from the garden, grow a small row of this variety.
Everbearing and day-neutral strawberries
Although they're not necessarily the same thing, everbearing and day-neutral are terms used interchangeably more and more often in the garden catalog lexicon.
Strawberry varieties are classified as June bearing, everbearing or day neutral. Recommended varieties of June bearers (one crop a year) for this area are Guardian, Rechief, Marlate, Robinson, Fairfax, Catskill, Redstar and Empire.
Everbearing - These plants produce fruit in the spring, summer and fall in three distinct periods. Everbearing strawberry plants product no runners, making them easy to care for.
Strawberries (June-bearing and everbearing varieties). If your child can grow only one fruit in your garden, make it strawberries. June bearers produce one large crop over two to three weeks early in summer.
Lemon Citrus limon 'Eureka' is an everbearing variety with a rich tart flavour and Lemon Citrus limon 'Meyer' is a cross between an orange and lemon with a sweet flavour. Mandarin Citrus reticulata var. nobilis is sweet and easy to peel.
Self-fruitful everbearing red raspberry cultivar that requires no staking or support. Large, bright red fruit July to September. Prefers slightly acidic soil. 4 to 5 feet tall. Zones 4 to 8.
Perennial Flowers ...
The second most popular type is known as 'everbearing'. These plants produce two smaller crops, the first in the usual June period and the second in late summer/early fall.
You can choose to plant June bearing plants which produce just once a year usually in late spring or early summer or you can plant everbearing strawberry varieties if you want fresh strawberries for the whole summer season.
For everbearing varieties, let the fall flowers go to fruit. Garden strawberries spread by runners. For larger berries, prune back all but a few runners. You do need some runners to fill in as older plants die.
While that may sound complicated, it's easy to tell the difference between the old growth that requires pruning out, and the new growth that bears next year's berries. There is an exception to pruning brambleberries: for everbearing or fall-bearing ...
 See also: Plant, Berry, Produce, Growing, Soil
  
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