RE: Raspberries-VBG

Claire,
	I have 3 rows of raspberries here that were mature when I came here 25
years ago.  They are the most delicious and disease free berries.  The new
shoots do come up everywhere, but I dig them and give them away to people
who are dying to make their own raspberry patch.  They are so care free
compared to strawberries which have all kinds of problems including slugs
and bird bites in addition to diseases.
Guess I am lucky, I haven't had a problem with the birds attacking my
raspberries, because my neighbors cherry trees are full of fruit at the same
time and the birds prefer the cherries.  Now the blueberries.....that's
another story!  I'm lucky if the birds save me enough to put on my cereal
every morning. I did manage to get enough in the freezer to make a big
blueberry buckle this winter though.  :)

Marilyn Dube'
Natural Designs Nursery
Portland, Oregon


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From:	owner-perennials@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf
Of ECPep@aol.com
Sent:	Wednesday, December 11, 2002 7:22 AM
To:	perennials@hort.net
Subject:	Re: now horseradish and raspberries-VBG


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.
Claire Peplowski
NYS z4

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