Yep, you' ve read it right. Yellow Raspberries do exist.
I've got a few in my veggie garden and one baby plant in my backyard. Thanks to the mother plant for letting her offspring crawl into our patch. The neighbor wanted to trim them and pull the strayed shoots off the ground but we asked him to let them crawl where ever they choose to and agreed that we may have the ones that crawled into our patch. Who'd mind getting any free plant ... more so, a fruiting one. The mother plant shoots plenty of its young so this year, we've got three times more than what we had last year.
Like the raspberry you are familiar with, their flowers look like so. Yes, these are organic and a hybrid so don't worry, it's not a Frankenstein raspberry.
The fruits are just yellow and tastes a bit like a not so sweet pineapple but still sweet.. if you get what I mean.
Those were the last harvest in autumn last year, I was sharing them with the honeybees. They love those, too, not just the flowers but the fruits as well.
At first, I thought the wasps were the culprit, chewing on a few of the fruits till I found a few sharing the same open fruit. I don't mind really, in the autumn it gets very wet here and last year, I could barely pick them on time I get there and find a few with mildew so I'd rather the honeybees and even the wasps eat them than the mildew.
You're aware that honeybees love a nectar bar right? The wasps would just bite on another fruit and not share any - like they do to the plums. I could be wrong about the wasps though, I've never really observed them as close as I did the honeybees just because ~~.
Unfortunately, I didn't have my phone with me back the afternoon I saw them doing that and I didn't get a chance to get back there during their eating time. This year, am looking forward for a "honeybee yellow raspberry bar session".
For now, just so you have an idea, this is what a "honeybee nectar bar" looks like. Those two pics below are a two year old pic by the way.
Anyway, as for the yellow raspberries, every now and then, a lady bug, honey bee and some unidentified bug would kiss their flowers.
Of course, I have the usual raspberries, too. I got both the ones that fruit in summer and the ones that still fruit in autumn. The yellow raspberries bears fruit till the late autumn, too by the way.
Right now, both the yellow and the red raspberries are still green and not ready for the picking but if the weather continues to be as how it was today, a few of them would be ready for breakfast and I just can't wait for the harvest time!
How about you, have you ever eaten a yellow raspberry? Do they have them where you are, too?
