They're growing raspberries like ANNUALS???? Well, that explains it. Good grief. They don't even produce well until they've been established for a couple of years. *rolls eyes* Just more proof that my refusal to eat store bought raspberries is a good one!
Growing raspberries as annuals *shakes head* I think the world is coming to an end! ;-)))
Autumn Beauty is a very popular variety here. Several of the local pick your own farms grow them. They taste wonderful - I've been known to go out and spend my birthday picking raspberries and then living on them until they're all gone! Raspberries, even black raspberries, grow wild all over Minnesota. There are families who have been picking the same wild raspberry or wild blueberry patches for generations. Any park here that has a wild wooded section - and most do - has wild raspberries. Course, beating the birds to them is something of a miracle! ;-)
Pamela
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deborah@greencure.org wrote on 9/30/2002
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I found out from our local farm advisor that in
Ventura California the growers are planting the raspberries like annuals so they
come to them already pre-chilled. In the summer months they use a huge floating
row covers to raise the temperature a bit since we are on the
coast.
One berry that seems to need low chill hours and is
treated like a perennial is the variety Autumn Beauty, which is suppose to big
and sweet!
Deborah Mills
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Well, I'd be unsurprised to learn that there were varieties
that produce in such a climate. Still, to my mouth, the ones that get a good
winter produce sweeter berries! ;-) Bear Lake raspberries (the Wasatch Valley
I mentioned) are unbelievably good. Big, juicy, sweet with enough tart in 'em
to balance them out!
Pamela
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deborah@greencure.org
wrote on
9/30/2002
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We live in Ventura California where we have very
mild winters and recently many of our strawberry growers have started growing
raspberries instead. I will do a little research to see what varieties they
are growing.
Deborah Mills
Green Cure, Inc.
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While you can grow strawberries in such a mild climate and
still get fruit, I am unaware of any varieties of raspberries that can be
grown, and produce fruit, without a good cold season. Raspberries are my
favorite fruit and the very best ones I've ever had come from a valley in
the Wasatch Mountains. Altitude is about 6000 feet, winters are *very* cold
and they get heavy snow fall. Second best raspberries I've ever had come
from here in Minnesota in the US. It can get extremely cold here in the
winter - and the raspberries do just grand. Black raspberries don't like it
quite as cold, but I think that even they require a cold dormant season.
You should be able to grow the strawberries, but with less sun,
they'll produce less fruit. On the other hand, I once had an extremely
productive balcony garden that only had sunlight until about 2 in the
afternoon. I did very well with peppers and tomatoes and many flowers and
herbs. Produced more than I could eat and I ended up freezing and enjoying a
great deal of produce in the winter!
Have you kept an eye on local
breeders? Here in Minnesota, we get a lot of really great plant varieties
bred for local conditions by the University of Minnesota's Landscape
Aboretum.
Pamela
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tamsin@sparecreative.com
wrote on
9/28/2002
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Comfrey,
what a wonderful plant! I will be sure to try some comfrey
medicine.
Comfrey will be the next plant to go in I hope. We are planning to
add a
small article about comfrey in our next garden newsletter and that is
a
great tip, thanks!
Do you think strawberries and rasberries would
cope with only morning sun,
even though the weather would be quite warm
(LA-type climate)?
Thanks for the advice and info,
Happy
Gardening,
Tamsin
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