How to Grow Golden Raspberries

Find a planting area for your golden raspberries that features sandy loam soil that is rich and well-drained. Make sure the site receives six to eight hours of sunlight each day. Do not plant yellow raspberries within 300 feet of wild raspberry or wild blackberry plants or in sites where your previously grew eggplants, potatoes or tomatoes because of the risk of a root rot called verticillium wilt.

Gather a sample of your golden raspberry planting soil and take it to your county extension office to have its pH level, or level of acidity and alkalinity, tested. The ideal pH level for raspberry soil is 5.5 to 6.5, and your soil test results will indicate what amendments are needed to improve the soil.

Dig holes that are large enough to accommodate your golden raspberry canes from a nursery. Place the plants in rows that are 10 feet apart, and keep the plants two feet apart in each row. Plant the starter plants at the same depth they were in the nursery pots, and firm the soil around the plant. Keep the soil moist.

Apply a 10-10-10 fertilizer per 100 feet of row 10 days after planting. Repeat this 40 days after planting, and continue fertilizing your raspberry plants twice a year according to the manufacturer's instructions.

Put mulch such as sawdust or straw on your golden raspberry planting soil to help retain soil moisture and control the growth of weeds. Stop mulching the area if the soil retains too much moisture.

Prune any raspberry canes that have a grayish-brown peeling bark in late winter or early the next spring, as these canes bore fruit last year and will not bear again. Also, cut off canes that are short, spindly or weak looking. Remove broken, diseased or dead canes as well.