Re: now horseradish and raspberries-VBG

In a message dated 12/10/02 11:58:13 PM Eastern Standard Time, mtalt@hort.net 
writes:


> Well, Paul, maybe you need to dig the raspberries and give them to
> that vendor with the half acre of horseradish:-)

Here, here guys.  Raspberries can be one awful plant to deal with if you do 
not want them in the flowers.  I put a dozen or so cuttings in the hold beds, 
raised beds, and I am still pulling out the occasional runner in the paths 
and they are also in the field grass.  They are stoloniferous.  If in soil 
they like, there are plenty of suckers, all through the season.

Then just when you think you have them in an orderly row, they all succumb to 
some virus and you have yukky plants with no berries plus a soil area never 
again for raspberries.  There is also the bird thing.  You and the birds 
under a net hoping to get some of the crop is actually rather funny.

They are nice to have in summer and I put in a few when the memory of last 
lot leaves my head.  Fortunately the other member of the family likes them so 
I have help.

Horseradish for all it's criminal past is not stoloniferous and will stay put 
if you are careful to keep the waste parts of the plant away from the garden. 
 Also nothing attacks horseradish or if it does, it will lose.

Claire Peplowski
NYS z4

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