Glen Ample is one of the best-known summer-fruiting raspberry varieties, producing heavy crops of large, attractive red berries with an excellent flavour. It is a reliable mid-season variety and is widely grown for its combination of fruit quality, yield and easy picking.

One of Glen Ample’s standout features is its spine-free canes, which make harvesting noticeably easier. The fruit is large, firm and holds well on the plant, making it excellent for eating fresh, desserts, freezing and homemade preserves.

Glen Ample fruits on the previous year’s canes. Once these have finished cropping, cut the fruited stems back to ground level and tie in the fresh new growth ready for the following summer.

What Toby thinks:

Glen Ample is a really dependable all-round raspberry. The fruit is a good size, it crops heavily and the spine-free canes make picking much nicer. If someone only wanted one good summer raspberry variety, this would be one of the easiest ones to recommend.

Why grow Glen Ample raspberries?

• Heavy-cropping summer raspberry

• Large, flavoursome red fruit

• Mid-season harvest

• Spine-free canes for easier picking

• Fruit holds well on the plant

• Excellent for fresh eating, freezing and preserves

• Reliable choice for gardens and allotments

Supplied as bare-root raspberry canes during the dormant season. If we do not have availability of our own plants we will supply from another UK grower that we work with and trust.