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Lubera Edibles Podcast #09: Gardener’s talk - How to produce gooseberries in containers?
Gooseberries are one of the classics of the berry garden. Actually, they would have tremendous potential as fruits: they still represent the bush berry fruits that have the largest fruits – more bite, more juice, more flavour is not possible. But the historical and far too mildew-prone varieties, the mildew itself, the thorns as well as the antiquated image still hinder this fruit species. Here in the Gardener’s Radio podcast we would like to highlight the most important aspects of...
Read moreLubera Edibles Podcast #08: Gardener’s talk - How to produce red and black currants in containers?
In loose succession, we also want to talk about our production in this Gardener's Radio podcast. How exactly are finished plants produced from Lubera Edibles young plants? What are the sizes? What are the problems and what do you have to watch out for? So that we don't get lost in the shuffle, we'll be joined by Robert Maierhofer, the plant and production manager at Lubera, which has two production nurseries in Switzerland and Germany. Nevertheless, we cannot, of course, provide the...
Read moreLubera Edibles Podcast #07: The new raspberry families: salmon raspberries, Chef® raspberries and Schlaraffia® raspberries
Raspberries are booming. This is true for the fruit market, where consumption is currently doubling every 4-6 years. It's also true for the home garden market. But do we really need the 30 varieties that Lubera Edibles has in its range? And is there a need for new raspberry varieties at all? Is there any progress to be made? With these questions in mind, Frederik Vollert and Markus Kobelt highlight the importance and place of the new raspberry families: salmon raspberries, Chef® raspberries and...
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.
The advantages of the Chef® raspberries
The breeding of...
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...
What are Schlaraffia® raspberries?
In the past 10 years, two...
Read moreConfi® berries – new jostaberry that we need!
The horticultural or breeding vision of combining blackcurrants with gooseberries has existed since the end of the 19th century. The aim of these first crossing attempts was to combine the fruitiness and fruit size of gooseberries with the aroma of blackcurrants. In addition, this new fruit variety was also to have tolerance to American gooseberry powdery mildew. However, these first attempts were not successful...
The Lubera® breeders were by no means the first to work on jostaberries. In...
Read moreWhy black is the new colour of fruit! All about Cassissima®
If you take a closer look at the fruit counters of the supermarkets nowadays, you will find blueberries and strawberries all year round, even red currants are now offered throughout most of the year. However, blackcurrants are hardly ever found, if at all, and there is no trace of jostaberries. The latest generations of these black fruits have the opportunity to end their current Cinderella existence and become more than just a niche within a niche...
Cassissima® – the better tasting...
Read moreThe Sweetleaf® raspberry – the healthy, green sugar from your own garden
Basically, it almost sounds like a pious Christmas wish from a plant lover: to have a perennial and hardy plant that can be cultivated sustainably both in the garden and in pots, and whose leaves contain an ingredient that gives the leaves an incredible sweetening power. We can fulfil this wish with the Sweetleaf® raspberry – a perennial and hardy, Stevia-like plant that is ideal for a temperate, winter cold climate.
What is the Sweetleaf® raspberry?
But what is the Sweetleaf® raspberry? It is the...
Read moreLubera Edibles Podcast #06: The Sweetleaf® raspberry – the healthy green, calorie-free sugar from your own garden
It sounds like a plant breeder's Christmas wish list: a perennial plant that is easy to grow in our garden and in pots; it is sustainable and simple with leaves that contain a natural sweetener called rubusoside and other healthy ingredients that are 200 times sweeter than sugar. The dream comes true with the Sweetleaf® raspberry, which will be available starting this spring! This will give the hobby gardener a valuable and, above all, much easier to grow alternative to stevia or...
Read moreLubera Edibles Podcast #05: Cassissima® und Confi® berries – why black is the new fruit colour...
Blueberries everywhere, strawberries all year round and the health values of raspberries and blackberries are the talk of the town. To give just one example: there are significantly more blueberries sold in the home garden market today than currants (all colours and shapes) and gooseberries combined. What happens to the specialties? Do they still belong in the assortment? Can one continue to breed them? Markus Kobelt and Frederik Vollert discuss these questions in this podcast: why black is the...
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