Raspberries! Oh, they are so delicious! I haven't had freshly picked raspberries since I was a little girl on vacations in Fort Bragg, CA. I only have one plant currently producing berries, so am really looking forward to next year (hopefully) when the baby plants bear fruit! There are no photos of the handfuls I pick each morning, since my daughter and I gobble them up before I remember I need to get a picture! It's a Meeker raspberry, which produce well in the Pacific Northwest. Seeing how long the vines grew, I will need to move it once the bed for the new plants is finished. That needs to be soon, as there are are now baby raspberry suckers coming out the drainage holes of the plants awaiting the bed!
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| Meeker raspberries - almost ripe! |
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| waiting for their new bed |
The blueberries are getting plump!
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| Legacy Blueberries - June 2014 |
and numerous...
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| Bluecrop Blueberries - June 2014 |
I am harvesting more strawberries a day than we can eat, so I am freezing some. The first ripe ones were lost to sow bugs/slugs/something. I used diatomaceous earth, which didn't help. So, I have resorted to Cory's snail and insect bait. Now I get most of the strawberries, around 5:1 for me! They smell just like sweet strawberry jam. I have no idea what
kind of strawberries they are, other than June bearing.
The boysenberries are ripening! This is their first crop and I am so excited! I have eaten two so far, and they tasted like pie! There will be so many ripening at once, a pie is the first thing I am going to make! When they are ripe the berries are nearly as dark as blackberries, one of the boysenberry's parent. Actually, these may be tayberries, the woman who gave me the bareroot canes wasn't sure which they were, boysenberry or tay. Tayberries are a hybrid of blackberries and raspberries. Boysenberries are a blackberry, raspberry, and dewberry cross.
Updates on peas, tomatoes, peppers, compost pile volunteers, etc. to be coming soon! This is an African daisy...
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