We have 3 or 4 different varieties of summer rasps and a row of Autumn Bliss. One of the summer vars regularly bears very large fruit on its new canes in the autumn, but it doesn't affect its fruiting on the same canes the following year. The others don't do this.
The Autumn Bliss spends most of its time trying to get out of the patch allotted to it in order to creep into the next row of summer rasps.... Generally they are usually not much above 6' high, and mostly a bit smaller than that, particularly when weighted down with fruit. We are just about to cut them down for the year, though they still have the odd fruit coming. What an odd year it is being.
People often recommend the yellow autumn rasp for flavour; I haven't tried it and I expect it is delicious, but I like the bright red Autumn Bliss and it does give a good crop. We had a lot of late wood wasps on the crop this year, which was annoying, not to mention the odd hornet.
Alison.
