important news about raspberries

Important if, like me, you want as many raspberries as possible! Francisco shared with me a couple of tips about raspberries. First, when picking, it's important that you also take off the spongy white center that the berry slides out of and that wants to stay on the branch. If you leave it on the plant, it thinks it still has a berry there and doesn't need to make more. If you take that part off, then it will be more likely to replace that berry. Also, especially with the wet weather, the raspberries are making lots of new foliage. For best results, this new growth (it has smaller, brighter leaves and is at the top of the plant) should be removed. This is easy to do, even with bare hands. Those of us who have been picking berries, maybe we can all remember to do these two things.

raspberries are ready

I was out there this morning and picked a few raspberries in the plot that's to the south of mine. There are a lot more still ripening and probably ready over the next few days. Let's share them! If you're not sure if they're ready, see if they come off with a gentle tug. If it takes more than that, they probably need another day or so (just in case anyone didn't know that). Enjoy -- let's get them before the rabbits do.

strawberries

I picked a few strawberries outside the gate today after watering them, and it looked like many others will be ready in the next few days. Let's share them and enjoy! If you've been resisting because you didn't know who these were for, my understanding is that they are now for all of us.