Raspberry

Red Raspberry Rubus idaeus 'Heritage' I started out with about ten little sticks and now have plenty to share as they spread rapidly and vigorously. I would even recommend that if you have even more limited space then me to confine the roots, maybe by planting them in sunken 5 gallon buckets with the bottoms sawed off. They love my well drained spot I have them planted in and the yearly dumping of compost every winter before they start growing again. I grow mine like a hedge, with the canes woven into a wire support between posts and every spring before new growth I try to thin out the weak and spindly, dead, and old canes to give nice fat new healthy canes room to take over. They are an ever bearing type and as you can see in the picture they are just beginning to bloom. I will be digging up and potting suckers maybe this weekend for my plant sale but I promised to put aside some for my S-I-L's new organic garden so I do not know how many I will offer for sale. Mine seem trouble free except when it comes to Japanese beetles who will demolish the plants in a day. YIKES!.

5/14/10

5/29/10

6/3/2010

Loads of bee action on the raspberries today. Bees are positively HUMMING. The harvest is looking very promising.

6/12/10

waiting...

6/20/10

6/22/10

6/23/10

This morning, a nice handful have ripened. But this is only the beginning.

8/5/10

Transplanted a raspberry that had escaped the bed and cut it back.