Raspberries are wonderful in jams, pies, and tarts, as well as smoothies and beverages. One raspberry shrub may yield several hundred berries every season, making it one of North America's most popular fruit.
Still lots to do but it looks as though my 3rd year will be my best year yet, onwards and upwards.Raspberries are a Rosaceae (rose family) shrub belonging to the Rubus genus. Just need to get the other fruit bushes and fruit trees in the ground before winter sets in and the rest in spring. Had some missed calls on my phone this week turns out some the guy on the next plot had left a greenhouse on my plot and did I want it.ĭid I…….so I now have two sheds, one greenhouse and a poly-tunnel, which means I should be streets ahead next spring. Last week I took 10 cuttings from someone on another plot of red currants, I have put them in a pot with soil to root over winter ready for planting out next spring. I did as I was told, lots of manure and planted them, in a week they are starting shoot, so they have taken.Įvery 6 years or so you need to start with fresh canes or those taken from cuttings. I got given some autumn raspberry canes 10-12 in all from another allotmenteer 3 weeks back, planted them last week after 2 weeks in a bucket of water. Tidy up, clearing the old canes and leaves, remove any weeds and then mulch with compost and that’s it until spring. They bear the fruit on the tips of this year’s canes so, once they have fruited and frosts arrived, cut the canes down to ground level. They’re not as productive as the summer types but you do get a late crop of fresh raspberries. The autumn varieties fruit from late August / early September until the first frosts. Those that fruit in the summer and the autumn fruiting varieties. Raspberries need pruning, usually in November, but there are two types of raspberry that require different treatments. “This is the first time I have grown raspberries and I am unsure what to do with them through the winter months.
Hopefully this will help others as well Raspberries So in the absence of anything else to report, I thought I’d answer an email question. It’s so nice to actually eat your own fresh vegetables. The first earlies are larger.Ĭarrots are doing well and we’ve had a couple of meals from the young thinnings so far. It seems we will have quite a few potatoes for the space but currently the main crops are about golf ball size. Unfortunately, due to communication error on my part, she dug up a couple of main crop plants rather than the first earlies. Val went out to harvest a few potatoes and carrots the other day. In the words of the song, “you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone”. The worst thing I can do is put pressure on it so no lifting and definitely no digging. Well the knee is still keeping me indoors.
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