Raspberries are some of the most delicate and delicious small fruits grown in New Mexico.
Although traditional red raspberries prefer cooler climates, everbearing varieties have produced successful fall crops in warmer areas like New Mexico. This means that canes produced during the first growing season have to survive the winter and produce berries on the same canes the following summer. These biennial canes often break dormancy in early spring and can be damaged by late frosts. For this reason, most gardeners and commercial raspberry growers prefer everbearing varieties like 'Heritage', 'Red Wing', 'Autumn Bliss' and 'Ruby', Dickerson said. With everbearing raspberries, canes produced in the spring of the first growing season will bear fruit in the fall of the same year.