General description: The Golden Queen yellow raspberry is a highly valued cultivar. Its fruit are delicious and very decorative. Thanks to it being a double cropping raspberry, its harvest can be enjoyed for a long time. This shrub reaches a height of around 1.5 m. It’s frost-resistant and pests attacks are extremely rare. Thanks to its low requirements, it is suitable for inexperienced gardeners.

Fruit: Golden Queen fruit are large, aromatic, golden yellow or orange yellow.

Ripening: Golden Queen starts to bear fruit on two-year-old canes in August, and on the current year’s shoots come autumn.

Cultivation requirements: Raspberry shrubs are easy to cultivate. Sunny and warm locations with fertile, permeable soils are best. Substrates with a slightly acidic pH (around 5.8-6.8) are ideal.

Pruning: Pruning should be conducted in early spring. Dry and damaged canes should be removed, and the remaining ones cut to a length of about 30 cm so they can produce strong new shoots.

Overwintering: Raspberries are frost-resistant in almost any temperate clime and do not freeze in temperatures down to -24°C. At the beginning of November, young seedlings should be covered by a mound of soil with peat about 30 cm in high, or shielded with agrotextiles for the winter.