Raspberries Galore!

Summer 2014

This is our 2nd season of raspberries here at Redwoodshire and it's the best we've ever had.  Our old house didn't have good sun, and therefore the plants didn't do well.  We planted our Raspberry row in the Fall of 2013.  Then we built the trellis in the summer of 2014.  This Spring (2015) many new canes grew and filled in the gaps between all the individual plants we had originally planted. As the photos demonstrate, the plants looked about the same in early Spring as they did last Summer.  By the first picking in June, the new canes had shot up and filled our Raspberry row right up.  It's difficult to tell where our original plants were. I highly recommend ever-bearing raspberry plants.  They produce a light crop at the end of June and early July.  Then in mid- September they produce a huge crop!  We picked 3 quarts of berries last week, and today another quart.  It's absolutely amazing!  Organic home grown, fresh picked raspberries- can't get any better than that.  We're hoping to spread some of our plants into a second row to make room for all the new canes that will come next Spring, and thus eventually increase our yield.  I am also eager to plant a Queen Anne Golden raspberry, as soon as I can find a place to purchase them.  We may have missed our chance for this year.

Spring 2015

We had no idea how quickly raspberry plants spread.  Honestly raspberries are somewhat as easy to grow as weeds!

Fall 2015

 As can be noted from the photos, our trellis needs a little help.  We need to counter balance the tension outside of the posts with some sort of contraption.  In researching growing grapes and different trellises, I suspect we will fix these when we are building grape trellises sometime in the future.  For now, it is what it is.