Growing
Raspberries
Jane Holmes
Published by Jane Holmes
Smashwords Edition
Copyright 2011 -
Jane Holmes
Discover other titles by Jane
Holmes
Growing Blueberries
Growing Strawberries
Growing
Blackberries
Table of Contents
Introduction,About
Raspberries,A Perfect Site,Preparing the Soil,Choosing the Right
Plants, Plant Resources,Planting Your Raspberries,Training
Your Raspberries, Caring for Your Raspberry Bed,Harvesting and
Pruning,Recipes,After
the Harvest,The Health Benefits of
Raspberries,About the
Author,References/Resources
ˆ
Growing Raspberries
Introduction
As spring turns into summer, it mars the beginning
of our berry season here in northern New Hampshire. The first of
these tantalizing canes to begin blossoming are raspberries, with the
blueberries and blackberries not far behind. The buds explode with a
pink and white blossom that I watch for impatiently every spring.
These blossoms mark the beginning of picking, processing, freezing
and eating my favorite fruit, the raspberry
.
Although raspberries grow naturally in our area,
the domesticated brambles that we’ve harvested have a tendency to
grow larger, plumper and juicer berries than their wild counterpart.
Plus, we have the convenience of having them right in our back
yard.This spring we came to the conclusion that it’s time to build
ourselves a proper raspberry bed. For the past fifteen years, we have
been harvesting Latham raspberries that the previous owner of our
property had pulled up and thrown over the bank! This jumble of
brambles has produced amazingly well, but the bed is beginning to run
out
.
We’ve
done a lot of research in the past couple of years and now have a
good plan to ready our soil this fall and plant new one-year-old
canes in the spring of 2012.
About Raspberries
Although
we’ve been told that raspberries are not hardy enough to be
successful in northern New Hampshire, we’ve had wonderful luck with
them with the discarded jumble that we’vebeen reaping our harvest
from. We’ve had large yields from these raspberries for many
years.There’s no reason why a well-kept raspberry bed can’t
produce an abundance of fruit for 10-20 years.