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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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From:
b*@magicaldesk.com
To: community_garden@mallorn.com
Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 9:19
PM
Subject: Re: [cg] Plants for community
garden
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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