Golden Queen

Golden Queen Raspberry is a yellow raspberry variety producing a single abundant summer crop of attractive golden berries. The fruit is fairly firm, sweet and flavourful, making it suitable for fresh eating, desserts and preserves.

This is a non-remontant, or summer-fruiting, raspberry variety. It produces one main harvest, generally in July and August, often more concentrated and abundant than autumn-fruiting raspberry varieties.

Golden Queen is a natural yellow-fruited mutation of the American red raspberry variety ‘Cuthbert’. Such mutations occur naturally when a bud develops different characteristics from the original plant, in this case producing yellow rather than red fruit.

Like other raspberries, Golden Queen prefers fresh, slightly acidic soil with good organic matter. Mulching with wood chips or ramial chipped wood can help reproduce the cool woodland-edge conditions raspberries naturally enjoy.

After fruiting, remove the two-year-old canes that have finished cropping. Keep the strongest young canes for the following year and tie them to supports if necessary. An open, well-aired plant structure helps limit disease pressure, especially Botrytis on the fruit.

Golden Queen is self-fertile and does not require another raspberry variety for pollination.