Twotimer®
Lubera Chef®: The berry concept with substance, taste and aroma
The Lubera Chef® berry concept is being expanded: Autumn Chef® and Summer Chef® are getting a gourmet colleague in the form of the Twotimer Chef® variety, a double-bearing raspberry. And last but not least, the range is being expanded with a new blackberry variety, the super-sweet, large-fruited classic blackberry Blackstars Chef® – with a very long harvesting period.
Read moreThe dominance of raspberries and blackberries in the berry market
The dominance of Rubus berries (raspberries and blackberries) in the home gardening market is undisputed, but even greater than one might think. This has many implications for product range planning and marketing. Even though it is a good strategy to develop other types of berries and fruits and promote their sales, there is no way around raspberries and blackberries if we want to increase the overall market share of berry plants in home gardens. The only way to do this is through innovation...
Read moreThe most important dos and don'ts for growing raspberry plants
The weather in 2025 has been quite challenging for gardeners so far. A mild winter gave way to a cool spring, followed by a spectacular start to summer with heat and weeks of drought. No sooner had we got used to it than daily rain showers and temperatures that did little to bring out the summer feeling arrived – only to jump back up to 30 degrees again.
Such capricious weather makes plant management in raspberry production a real challenge. That's why it's worth keeping an eye on the...
How do I put together my berry assortment?
Hopefully they are on holiday. Or even better, enjoy the fact that everyone else is on holiday. But once again, every plant producer is wondering which berry plants, varieties and assortments to choose for next spring. Because soon the young plants will have to be ordered. At Lubera Edibles, too, young plant production is controlled according to the order history and incoming orders. Later in winter or spring, you then have to take what is still available.
Read moreBreeding progress – for what?
Why and for what does progress in breeding need to be made in plants for the home garden, especially in edible plants? Is there any advancement at all – or is it just less or more reproduction of the old, old wine being sold in new bottles? And if there are improvements, what are they focussed on and how can we sell them? These are the questions I would like to answer in this article, using raspberries as an example.
Read moreRaspberries 2023 – the ranking of varieties, growth types, fruit colours and plant sizes
In the stationary market, the sales figures for the most important soft fruit variety, raspberries, are largely supply-driven: ultimately, what is sold is what buyers purchase and then what is offered at the points of sale. With the online range of our sister company Lubera.com, the situation is largely reversed: we sell what is in demand.
From mid-February until Christmas, a wide range of 36 raspberry varieties is continuously available. According to the sales figures at Lubera.com, we can...
Read moreRaspberry breeding at Lubera – the reinvention of the raspberry for the garden
Raspberry breeding has been one of the largest breeding programmes at Lubera for over 20 years. Ultimately, only apple breeding is even older, which basically began when the company was founded in 1993. The first goal of raspberry breeding was simple and overdue: it was to replace the dominant Autumn Bliss raspberry with better varieties. To do this, we crossed Autumn Bliss with Tulameen together with Reto Neuweiler from the Wädenswil Research Station – this then resulted in the Autumn...
Read moreChef® raspberries – aromatic raspberries from your own garden
With the Chef® raspberries we can offer you two exceptional raspberry varieties, which are not yet available in this quality in the home garden sector. With these varieties, the Lubera® breeding team has finally succeeded in doing away with the old wives' tale that large raspberry fruits do not taste good. The ideally complementary raspberry varieties 'Summer Chef®' and 'Autumn Chef®' offer an extraordinary taste experience that is second to none.
Read moreSchlaraffia® raspberries – raspberries that work for the gardener
Schlaraffia® raspberries are simple autumn raspberries that offer a large harvest. Schlaraffia® is synonymous with the land where milk and honey flow and these raspberries grow directly into the mouth of the connoisseur. With the Schlaraffia® raspberry varieties, the gardener no longer works for his/her plants, no, the raspberries do (almost) all of the work themselves – the perfect varieties for the lazy but intelligent gardener...
Read moreRaspberry plants with yellow leaves – symptoms and causes
That raspberry plants get yellow leaves is basically not a question but a statement. And it is relatively unimportant whether it is at a hobby gardener's home, during the production of pot/container plants, in our variety garden or even at our breeding facility. But as diverse as the individual raspberry varieties are, so versatile are the causes of the yellow leaves. And there is not always a serious disease behind it; it can also be a completely natural physiological effect. In the following...
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