One distraction when I’m working on the seed list is thinking about one berry to choose to add to our abundance, and how we haven’t finished this year’s draft of what will go where in the kitchen garden. Continue reading “Berries on the brain.”
Tag: red raspberry
Our berries of 2018
Did I mention our red raspberry canes had fruit? If not, I just did. We were a bit neglectful in cane management last year, and we have way too many runners, and thus not much fruit this year. Continue reading “Our berries of 2018”
Updated the Plant Progress yesterday
I updated the 2018 Plantings page.
We’ve had another casualty, but some success as well (one noted by image yesterday). We also ate our first blueberries and raspberries of the season (red and black). It was still a bit soon for the blueberries we taste tested. The strawberries keep getting raided by the critters before we get a chance. To be fair, we have a lot more raspberry canes than we do fruiting strawberry plants so far.
The Berry Army
I did a quick walk about today. We only have one tiny patch of snow left in the front yard. Fat drops of rain were falling just infrequently enough that I snuck in about 20 minutes of fallen twig pickup and general observation.
